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All We Can Do is Prolong Her Life
It was after a well-woman visit at Planned Parenthood. There was a lump and the nurse practitioner recommended a doctor. The next week,...
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russell wrankle
- Aug 3, 2021
- 1 min
More than One Right Answer
Making art is confusing because there is always more than one right answer. This is difficult for students, and a challenge to teach. We...
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russell wrankle
- Apr 6, 2021
- 4 min
The Middle School Mile
I'm reminded of the following story because Ella, my youngest daughter, is running the mile in her middle school gym class. She hates it,...
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russell wrankle
- Mar 18, 2021
- 4 min
My Masculinity
Last night, Brynn had a friend over who is working at a construction job. His task is cleaning up around the construction site, and I...
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russell wrankle
- Jan 9, 2021
- 3 min
Throw Back to "I Quit"
Below is a blog that I wrote nine years ago when I quit making pottery. The teapots shown in this post were never finished and I never...
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russell wrankle
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
No Do-Overs
When my kids were young, it's was easy to pride myself on being a good dad because the feedback I got was that I was fabulous in every...
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russell wrankle
- Dec 17, 2020
- 1 min
The Problem with WIP
I showed some students this piece the other day and some saw a rabbit, it reminded others of sprouting leaves and still others said it...
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russell wrankle
- Dec 10, 2020
- 3 min
Envy and the Zeitgeist
I started making animals in grad school when I discovered the Dogs of Colima, Northwestern, Mexico, during a pre-Columbian art history...
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russell wrankle
- Dec 4, 2020
- 4 min
A Pandemic Letter to my Students
This semester was weird, and I know it's not quite over since we're now online, but I like closure. During the last critique on the...
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russell wrankle
- Nov 25, 2020
- 3 min
That Time When I was a Fundementalist
I used to be embarrassed about being a Mormon missionary. I never talked about it. If you know anything about Mormonism, you know that...
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russell wrankle
- Nov 19, 2020
- 3 min
There is no reason why I should be a College Professor
There's no reason why I should be an academic. At least that's what you would say if you knew me during my high school years. Back then,...
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russell wrankle
- Oct 29, 2020
- 2 min
Do The Thing That You Fear?
I made these two pieces in 2016, for a two-person show titled "Ordinary Opposites" with artist Ben Ahlvers at NCECA in Kansas City,...
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russell wrankle
- Oct 17, 2020
- 5 min
The Obstacle is the Way, Book Review (Kinda)
The Obstacle Is The Way, by Ryan Holiday is written primarily for entrepreneurs and business people, but it could just as well be written...
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russell wrankle
- Oct 13, 2020
- 1 min
A Delightful Suprise
A few years ago, I got a text from a friend who asked "Tell me this is yours". She was thumbing through Architectural Digest and bam,...
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russell wrankle
- Aug 18, 2020
- 2 min
Frypan and the Hare
Several years ago, while frying eggs in an iron skillet I started to admire the form of the pan. And as artists do, I thought "I should...
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russell wrankle
- Jul 19, 2020
- 4 min
Making a killing in Palm Springs, California.
My sister loved her rabbit fur coat. She loved it so much that I figured I could make a killing off of rabbit pelts. There were...
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russell wrankle
- Jul 13, 2020
- 3 min
A Subjective Point of View
In 2008, I was one of six emerging artists at Indianapolis, Indiana for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. It was...
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russell wrankle
- Jul 7, 2020
- 3 min
Cringe
For the past few days, we've been talking around the house about our former selves. The consensus is if we're not cringing at the way we...
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russell wrankle
- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
Try New Things
It gets more difficult to try new things the more entrenched I am with what I know. Expanding my skills and learning something new is...
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russell wrankle
- Jun 22, 2020
- 2 min
Adagio for Strings
I'll never be able to listen to Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (1910-1981) without thinking back to an evening with Sarah and Noel,...
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