This is a doodle on a napkin I made during the Theatre department's trip to KCACTF (Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival). This was one of two doodles I did during our trip. The napkin is a representative capture of the whole group out eating together while in Iowa.
This wreath was decorated with personal pins and passdowns as well as a miniature DJ. These were created to show a controlled representation of the culture of Cottey's senior class.
For this vessel, I threw it on the wheel and once it dried, I applied black underglaze as the stripes with white underglaze as the dots. I dipped it in the blue glaze, which turned out beautifully. This piece breaks away from traditional glazing to create a fun pattern. This piece and all its inconsistency reminds me of the...
For this piece, I threw a clay vessel on the wheel, and once it was dry, I glazed it by using underglaze mixed with hand soap to create the bubble effect. I then dipped it into a clear glaze to make it shiny. This connects back to the theme because it is not traditional to apply glaze in this...
"Ducks and Daisy" is a short story loosely based on my two years as a Cottey student. I wrote this story for my American Realism and Naturalism class taught by Dr. Trisha Stubblefield. In the spirit of the realism and local color genres, my story includes specific details about the setting as well as local (Cottey) traditions. "Ducks and Daisy"...
I wrote this poem my freshman year, and I hadn't revisited it until this past summer, during a writing workshop I did in New York. When I first wrote it, I was homesick and didn't feel like I belonged at college. Later that year I became friends with the people in my suite and slowly began to call Cottey my...
I wrote this poem when it was, in fact, close to 4AM and I couldn't sleep because I had the best idea and I had to write an entire 15-page fanfic even though I was supposed to be up early in the morning. Sleep deprivation can be bad, but sometimes I think it's worth it. I think this poem represents...