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IN THE COMMUNITY

GoggleWorks

welcomes

Ben DeMott to the
Ceramics Studio
Photo Credit by Kevin Brett

G

oggleWorks Center for the Arts welcomes ceramic artist
and educator Benjamin M. DeMott as its new ceramics
studio manager. Prior to GoggleWorks, Ben spent the
last 13 years lecturing and exhibiting internationally; most recently
as an assistant professor at The School of Art Institute of Chicago.
Native to the Berks County region, he received a B.F.A. in
ceramics from Temple University's Tyler School of Art, and a
M.F.A. in Ceramics from Alfred University in Alfred, New York.
DeMott praised the GoggleWorks and said that he feels right
at home there.

"Coming to GoggleWorks is a homecoming,"
he said. "Well beyond a brick and mortar center
for the arts, this environment offers the invaluable means of fluid cultural production and the
creative permission-giving that is all too rare
in our shared modern experience."
DeMott is looking forward to expanding the core ceramics
curriculum at GoggleWorks, and offering new classes starting this
fall. In addition to a 5-week Introduction to Sculpture class, he
will lead an 8-week ceramic architecture class, in which students
explore systems and structure while creating a site-specific installation. He also will offer a workshop for teens (ages 13-17) on
creating cell phone amplifiers.

Photo Credit by Ben DeMott
"My practice as a teacher is in shaping safe spaces for 'not knowing',
where expressive vulnerability and experimentation are guiding
principles," DeMott explained. "The most inspiring event in teaching
is getting out of the way. The privilege of being able to witness an
individual realize their voice and pioneer their path of discovery
is one of the most beautiful and graceful things I've ever seen."
When he isn't in the ceramics studio at GoggleWorks, DeMott
keeps busy restoring an 18th century log cabin in Lenhartsville,
and exploring his personal work.
"I'm working to bracket the scale and poetry of this process
through an installation consisting of iterative fragments of ritual,
material abstraction, sound and text," he said. "I've been asking
myself, how do I thread the tone, anxiety and desire of rush-hour
packed CTA "L" train with the still tracks of Wanamaker Kempton
Southern? I think the answer is in the lime kilns."

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