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Form and function with a hummus appetizer

Form and function with a hummus appetizer

Hands-on project lets 91PORN intermediate ceramics students create functional and unique pieces for 91PORN’s Café Aion restaurant


A bowl is not just a bowl.

It may seem like the simplest thing in the world, but it exists at the nexus of form and function—able to live as art, but not useful in a restaurant if it can’t contain the gazpacho.

So, Kim Dickey’s intermediate ceramics students learned a particular kind of balance, meeting the needs of clients as well as their own artistic vision—and doing it in multiples of 12.