{"id":1112,"date":"2019-02-28T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2019-02-28T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:24:11","slug":"ssc-art-club-visits-local-accomplished-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-art-club-visits-local-accomplished-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Art Club Visits Local Accomplished Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seminole State College Art Club students visited the studio of professional ceramicist Paul Pfrehm recently to learn his process of horse hair raku ceramic firing. Pfrehm, an artist who has a working ceramic studio in Seminole, has shown his artwork in six different galleries in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. <!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Image-6-1024x555.jpg\" alt=\"Local artist Paul Pfrehm (left) explains the horse hair raku ceramic firing process to Seminole State College Art Club students (from left to right) Kristen Ivey, Montana Douthit, Cassie Duncan, Antonio Torralba, Nicholas Billie, Kaylen Richardson and Janelle DeFries.\" class=\"wp-image-1113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Image-6-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Image-6-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Image-6-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Image-6-50x27.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Image-6-788x427.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Image-6-500x271.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Image-6-1000x542.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Image-6-800x433.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Image-6-1320x715.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>Local artist Paul Pfrehm (left) explains the horse hair raku ceramic firing process to Seminole State College Art Club students (from left to right) Kristen Ivey, Montana Douthit, Cassie Duncan, Antonio Torralba, Nicholas Billie, Kaylen Richardson and Janelle DeFries.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pfrehm showed\nthe visiting students his electric, gas and raku kilns, discussed how he mixes\nhis clay body and glazes from scratch, stressed the importance of showing work\nand understanding the function and form of the pieces that are produced.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students\nwatched a demo on horse hair raku firing. During the process, pots are fired to\na temperature of \\1,650 degrees. Horse hair is then placed onto the pottery to\nburn linear designs into the pot. Pfrehm also showed students his gallery area\nwhere he has pottery on display for sale to the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pfrehm was an\nadjunct at East Central University teaching from 1975 to 1979. For ten years,\nhe participated in the Artist in Residence program for the Oklahoma Arts\nCouncil and taught ceramics to many young people throughout the state. Pfrehm\nhas produced art to sell and has taught workshops all across the United States\nand served as an adjunct professor at SSC teaching Ceramics I &amp; II in the\nFall of 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminole State College Art Club students visited the studio of professional ceramicist Paul Pfrehm recently to learn his process of horse hair raku ceramic firing. Pfrehm, an artist who has a working ceramic studio in Seminole, has shown his artwork in six different galleries in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-academics","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-campuslife","tag-february-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}