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Schlievert builds her art by hand rather than using a wheel. <\/p>\n
The life-sized busts and masks of feminine figures are all painted in different bright colors, wearing otherworldly costumes and clothes. They all live in the same universe, though.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe uniform factor about all of them is that they have very cute little rosebud lips and their lashes are done,” Schlievert said. “But they’re very deadpan. They’re not making a face; usually they’re pretty stoic.”<\/p>\n
The process of making one of her Fed Up Femmes takes anywhere from 12 to 40 hours. Schlievert is a hand-builder, so she doesn’t sit at a fast-spinning, lazy-Susan type wheel to make her art. Instead, she rolls out clay coils and winds them up into the shape she wants.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aI\u2019m like a human 3D printer almost, is kind of how I like to think of it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Then she smooths out the coils and perfects the shape. After firing the piece, she starts the process of painting and decorating.<\/p>\n
On top of being a full-time artist, Schlievert teaches six ceramics classes a week, four in San Marcos and two in Austin.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life?” she said. “No, do something you love and you’ll never know a moment of peace, but in the best way.”<\/p>\n
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Lindsey Frisbie, Kaycee Baker and Erin Nance work on their projects at Schlievert’s class. Baker says they’ve made a lot of friends in the class. <\/p>\n
Schlievert\u2019s San Marcos classes fill up within hours of sign-ups opening. <\/p>\n
A majority of the students are women. They share knowledge, resources and encouragement freely. Some of them get just as much out of the work of creating art as they do from being in community with other artists. <\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aI’ve got a ton of friends in this class now that I’ve met over the years,\u201d said Kaycee Baker, who has been taking Schlievert’s classes since she started teaching in 2022. “It’s just nice to be able to give myself some time to actually create something.\u201d<\/p>\n
This week’s ceramic projects include a range of things from the practical to the impractical, the concrete to ambiguous. There are coasters and mugs, but also a ceramic version of a flail \u2014 a weapon with a spiked ball attached to a chain on a stick. This flail has stars on it and will be painted bright colors. <\/p>\n
Schlievert encourages creativity to take any form that feels natural.<\/p>\n
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Schlievert is showing her Fed Up Femmes during the San Marcos Studio Tour this weekend. She hopes to one day have a solo show of her art.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aIt’s just mud. And we’re just making stuff that will outlive us and our children and our children’s children,” she said. “We’re making future artifacts, and I think that’s really beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schlievert has been a fixture of the San Marcos art scene for years, participating in the studio tour since its inception four years ago \u2014 but one of her dreams is to do her own show where a room full of her Fed Up Femmes can be in community with one another. She pictures them all oriented toward the viewers \u2014 staring deadpan and fabulous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sculptures at Stop 61 of the San Marcos Studio Tour don’t care if you don’t like them.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1228,1628,442,498,499,500,91068,85007,501,156,194840,194841,111,139,69,194842,194843],"class_list":{"0":"post-373282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-artist","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-ceramics","15":"tag-clay","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-fed-up-femmes","19":"tag-karly-schlievert","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-san-marcos","24":"tag-studio-tour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}