{"id":4336,"date":"2017-01-06T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artthescience.com\/magazine\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2017-01-06T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:42:54","slug":"creators-china-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artthescience.com\/magazine\/2017\/01\/06\/creators-china-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"CREATORS – China Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name:<\/strong> China Blue<\/a><\/p>\n

Which came first in your life, the science or the art?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a funny question for me. I think I am an outlier. I was never interested in science. My parents wanted my education to be well rounded, so at six years old I started studying art. I was sent to a community art centre\u00a0in Oakland California called Studio I. The facility was built and run by the famous ceramicist Peter Voulkos and his wife Pier. I went there every Saturday, and when I got older I started also going in the evenings. I learned to draw, make jewelry, puppets, lost-wax casting, and ceramics. At home I was surrounded by artists: my father was a ceramicist and sumi\u00e9 painter, and my mother a jeweler. Their friends were silkscreen printers, enamel artists, and other ceramicists including the Voulkos family. Because of this, when I turned thirteen I decided that my career would be that of an artist. And, why not? It was what I knew.<\/p>\n