Big turnout means big plans for Pottery Club
Tucked in the corner of the Club Fair on Sept. 5, the Pottery Club had no idea what was coming.
Typically, a new club might hope for a few interested students. But what President Kiara Nestler and Vice President and Zoe Ukasick went home with was something out of the ordinary.
“I was expecting like, 10 to 20 people, I wasn’t really thinking fifty-two,” Nestler said.
The first-time club leader’s original plan for the pottery club was to meet in the Wooldridge building behind the Fine Arts Center once or twice a week with however many people signed up. Then that number would be able to afford the club a couple pottery wheels.
Assuming that number would be less than 30. “But, with 52 people, I’m going to have to probably make groups that I take in once or twice a week and do certain things with. I might do it based off of experience. But, I have to figure out a lot of the funding stuff first,” Nestler said.
The Wooldridge building is known for being quiet and lowkey. A place for art students to work in peace.
“I feel like utilizing that area on campus, that’s huge. You know, try to use everywhere. I’m sure like half the campus doesn’t even know that place exists,” said Hunter Day, a history major.
Some students are using the club to return to the arts after a long absence.
“In high school I took a ceramics class, which included a lot of work with pottery and arts of that area. So, when I saw that there was a pottery club, I was like ‘oh that looks really cool,’” said student Bethany Davis.
The club allows students from all walks of life to feel free to express their artistic sides. Especially because they might not get the opportunity to within their major.
“I signed up because it sounded like a really interesting idea, and I feel like there’s not a lot of clubs that allow you to express a creative, artistic self on the campus,” Day said.
The Pottery Club will be allowing a vast group of students to explore their creativity in a welcoming environment.
“I’m really excited just overall, getting to meet other artistic-minded individuals because I feel like those are the type of people that are kind of kept away and kept to themselves, and giving them an outlet and a social setting is really, really important for the campus,” Day said. “So, I’m excited to see other people flourish with their creations.”
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