Through the past four years, ceramics has gone from a practice to ease my mind to a practice that activates it. I have begun to question what motivations drive me to do ceramics and what need it fulfills in my life.
2018 Val Cushing Memorial Scholarship Winner, NCECA 2018
Entry Title: Circles of The Earth
Scholarship Winner Carves Out Niche In Ceramics
The Glenview Art League’s 2018 Robert Sherman Fine Art Scholarship was awarded to Natalie Poklop, who just graduated from Glenbrook North High School. Her passion for art and ceramics are reflected in her work.
Standout Student: Skill at the Wheel
For Natalie Poklop, it was all about the wheel. And she could not get her hands on one...
Poklop turns passion for pottery into profit
In sixth grade art class, junior Natalie Poklop watched as the teacher transformed a ball of clay into a pot on the pottery wheel. Unsatisfied with only decorating it, she was anxious to try shaping a piece of pottery on a wheel for herself...