Since its inception in 2013, Pots-N-Prints has served over 5,000 students. The team works year-round to reach students.
While driving through West Texas, you may have seen a U-Haul pulling a UTPB Pots-N-Prints branded trailer. This trailer and team have seen many miles over the last 10 years since their beginning in 2013 with plans to see many more.
Mario Kiran and Chris Stanley are faculty members at UT Permian Basin in the College of Arts and Sciences. They recognized a need to bring art to students and expose them to opportunities they might not have otherwise. After months of hard work, the team secured a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The grant along with Odessa Arts and UTPB fund the program.
Pots-N-Prints is a mobile studio that takes printmaking and ceramics to rural areas in Southwest and West Texas. They serve K-12 students and instructors through their one-day workshops at schools and community centers. The studio allows them to get outside of a traditional classroom to learn.
During the workshops, the studio provides equipment and materials needed to complete projects. The Pots-N-Prints trailer transports a full-size block printing press, four-color silk screen shirt press, ten potters' wheels and a full-size Raku kiln. Altogether, the unit weighs about one ton, which is why U-Haul vehicles are used to pull the trailer.
The mobile unit also provides teachers with the necessary training and support to meet the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards required by the state. During the workshops, participants get hands-on experience creating clay forms on pottery wheels, making glaze and fire ceramics forms in a Raku
kiln, engraving on wood or linoleum blocks, printing their engravings on a printing press, and completing silkscreen designs on clothing.
Since its inception in 2013, Pots-N-Prints has served over 5,000 students. The team works year-round to reach students. During the summers when school is not in session, Pots-N-Prints works with the children and youth at the Odessa and Midland Boys and Girls Clubs serving more than 1200 students each summer.
To request a visit from Pots-N-Prints to your community, email Mario Kiran at Kiran_m@utpb.edu.
Mario Kiran and Chris Stanley are faculty members at UT Permian Basin in the College of Arts and Sciences. They recognized a need to bring art to students and expose them to opportunities they might not have otherwise. After months of hard work, the team secured a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The grant along with Odessa Arts and UTPB fund the program.
Pots-N-Prints is a mobile studio that takes printmaking and ceramics to rural areas in Southwest and West Texas. They serve K-12 students and instructors through their one-day workshops at schools and community centers. The studio allows them to get outside of a traditional classroom to learn.
During the workshops, the studio provides equipment and materials needed to complete projects. The Pots-N-Prints trailer transports a full-size block printing press, four-color silk screen shirt press, ten potters' wheels and a full-size Raku kiln. Altogether, the unit weighs about one ton, which is why U-Haul vehicles are used to pull the trailer. The mobile unit also provides teachers with the necessary training and support to meet the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards required by the state. During the workshops, participants get hands-on experience creating clay forms on pottery wheels, making glaze and fire ceramics forms in a Raku
kiln, engraving on wood or linoleum blocks, printing their engravings on a printing press, and completing silkscreen designs on clothing. Since its inception in 2013, Pots-N-Prints has served over 5,000 students. The team works year-round to reach students. During the summers when school is not in session, Pots-N-Prints works with the children and youth at the Odessa and Midland Boys and Girls Clubs serving more than 1200 students each summer.
To request a visit from Pots-N-Prints to your community, email Mario Kiran at Kiran_m@utpb.edu.
