{"id":53590,"date":"2012-03-23T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=53590"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:22:02","slug":"senex12-catherine-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12-catherine-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Exhibition artist Catherine Elliott &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53721\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/senex12-catherine-elliott\/stoneware-bowls-reduction-fired-by-catherine-elliott-12-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53721\" class=\"wp-image-53721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Elliott1.jpg\" alt=\"Stoneware bowls, reduction fired, by Catherine Elliott '12.\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Elliott1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Elliott1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stoneware bowls, reduction fired, by Catherine Elliott &#8217;12.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Elliott of Edina, Minn., crafts functional yet artistically complex pieces of stoneware.<\/p>\n<p>The process of pottery itself, the way it bridges antiquity and modernity, inspires her to explore the relationships between coarse, textured surfaces and smooth, refined ones. &#8220;Pottery can be simultaneously beautiful and useful,&#8221; she says, &#8220;and I want to make beautiful pieces that are used until they are broken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12\/\">Return to the 2012 Senior Exhibition main story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elliott of Edina, Minn., crafts functional yet artistically complex pieces of stoneware.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53590"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119078,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53590\/revisions\/119078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}