What is Club Mud?
Club mud is an opportunity for all ceramic students past and presently in class to understand the various aesthetic and business opportunities of ceramics. To do this students enrolled in ceramic class have the opportunity to make objects for sale and sell objects that are part of the process of learning (in class) to the community.

Exhibiting and Marketing work is one of the main learning tools to become a self sufficient artist. As a potter students produce a large amount of work to acquire an expertise in form and surface. The results have been the opportunity to show and sell work they find less interesting.

When do they meet?
Students in the ceramic courses work extensive hours making ceramic works, glazing and firing work. During the course of the term students dialogue with instructors, graduate students, each other and the community as they develop their work and produce finished pieces that become part of the exhibition.  The ceramic process is specific to material and technical processes that are found in the ceramic studio. This studio is a hot bed of information and students interact in the studio to complete work and understand glazing and firing.  Each technical achievement demands exploration and knowledge of the process. The students learn safety, glazing and how to fire the kilns here in the studio.  Much of the learning takes please as the work is glazed and the kilns are fired, there are unscheduled meetings and dialogue concerning objects the students are working on and the finished results. Scheduled meetings take place near the end of the term to prepare for Club Mud Exhibition and Sales. Meetings also take place when students want visiting artists to come to campus and during the year when students find interesting areas of ceramics they want addressed.

Why would one want to join club mud?
All students that are taking ceramics are members of Club Mud there is no other requirement. You must be enrolled in a ceramic course or have been enrolled in a Georgia Southern University ceramic class in the past.

Where do they meet?
Club Mud meets in the ceramic studio. Meetings are posted on the ceramic studio door.

Who is the leader of Club Mud?
Faculty Facilitator: Jane Pleak
Fall 2008 Co-Coordinators: Jeanne Henry and Daniel Todd
Business & Marketing: Jenny Hager