Brian Harper

Awesome. Congratulations!

For some reason, this post from last week never posted the images. Anyway, I finally finished this new work. It's headed to the State of Clay in Indiana exhibition next week, so if you're headed to the Indiana Clay Conference, check out the exhibition! #ceramics #indianaclayconference #ceramicart

What a great idea! I have my students maintain a weekly blog where they chronicle their successes (and failures) in the ceramics studio (I teach ceramics at Indiana University Southeast). Often, the students write about ideas and other life happenings, but I love the idea of a commonplace book!

Tenured folks, you may not know how to catch up on preparing, so some starting points from someone who was once faculty & is now a higher ed labor organizer:

-Join your campus AAUP chapter.
-If you don't have one, start one—talk to another AAUP chapter in your city/state to make connections. /cont

Ugh, what an absolute disgrace. Hoping that professor can find a new home somewhere far away from Texas.

Ugh, what a disgraceful set of actions from these administrators. In the video, it's very clear that the student baited the professor into this. It's so awful. I'm in Indiana, which has a political climate similar to Texas. It's a matter of time before this happens at my university.

Question for the academics out there. Have you ever heard of a program without a coordinator or chair? The admin at my university (IU Southeast) removed the coordinator role from all programs. Our Fine Art Program has 140 majors, 6 fulltime and 7 parttime faculty .. and nobody coordinating it.

Of course! I can send you the case study, too. It talks about your work creating the Planned Parenthood Saved Me Tumblr. The course is Strategic Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, and it's at IU's O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. What's the best way to send it?

I'm working on a paper for my nonprofit class based on a case study about when Komen tried to pull funding from Planned Parenthood years ago. An inspiring part of the story is the "Planned Parenthood Saved Me" Tumblr that @deanna.bsky.social made. I love amazing grassroots stories like this :)

We love ours too :) My daughter feeds them "snackos" everyday, so they chase her around the yard sometimes :)

My daughter made this card for her friend Rosalind. I love how she ran out of room for the words, "Happy Birthday", so she just continued it backwards so it looks like it's bouncing off the heart 😂

Too late! We only have three chickens, but they make tons of noise in the early afternoon, around 1-3pm!

The regional campuses will suffer the most. Bloomington and Indy will find a way to protect themselves. Interesting that IU President, Pamela Witten, just got a 28% salary raise and another $225,000 bonus. Curious timing, especially since there was a no-confidence vote for her earlier this year.

Looking for a place to put your thinking about craft and learning into writing? This could be the anthology.
Proposals are due by August 15. Link to the Google form for submissions and call for proposals docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can help make the book you want to read.

I’m very proud of my student, Hailey Cruz Pereyra for a great BFA Thesis exhibition tonight. Her work is beautifully rendered, thoughtful, and poignant. It’s been very cool seeing her work build momentum throughout her undergraduate experience. Congratulations Hailey! #iusceramics

NCECA had many highlights, but this is one of my favorites. Seeing so many friends and peers come out to cheer me on when I received NCECA’s Outstanding Achievement Award was amazing. I’m honored and humbled you would come out and support me like this. Thank you!!! ❤️ #iusceramics #artaxis #nceca

My daughter drew this picture of me flying to SLC for the NCECA conference. Any of my Bluesky peeps headed there?! #nceca #nceca2025 #pottersofbluesky

My daughter (she’s 4) often makes drawings for the workers at coffee shops and restaurants when we are there. Today at a coffee shop, she made these two drawings and gave them to the two baristas. I always wonder where these end up. She does it often enough that I carry extra paper and pens with me.

So good to see Barack Obama on Bluesky! Let’s keep growing over here ❤️ #nomorecaesars

We need some help staffing the Artaxis table at NCECA! If you’re a member and headed to the conference, check your email and sign up for a spot or two. If you can’t find the email, reach out on email or DM and I’ll resend it. Join us in SLC - can’t wait to see you! #nceca #nceca2025

So good! 😍

I'm all for this ad, and it's terrible what they're doing to vets. I do think, though, the blame should be spread to Trump and the rest of the Republican party who are supporting him. It's not just Elon. Trump is to blame just as much as Elon is.

New work, headed to NCECA! If you're headed to SLC next week, don't miss the Northern Arizona University Ceramics exhibition at Urban Arts Gallery. Opening reception on Thursday, 5-7pm. Big thanks to Jason Hess and the crew at NAU for including me!

#nceca #nceca2025 #ceramics #pottersofbluesky

If you're headed to NCECA and you're an Artaxis member, help me staff our Resource Hall table! #nceca #nceca2025

Love this work. Last chance to grab one from Artaxis!

I’m giving a “Pinnacle Presentation” lecture today on the IU Southeast campus. I’ll be talking about my path to being a full professor and the things that inspire me and fill me wonderment. There’s even a photo of me from my garbage man days! All are welcome!

A perfectly appropriate and time sensitive artwork the Founding Fathers would have appreciated. I want one!

I'm super excited to be included in the Skutt Kilns ceramic collection. Thanks for the support!

What a beautiful piece!

This beautiful catalog arrived today from Form & Space 2024: International Sculptural Juried Exhibition at the Museum of Art in DeLand, Florida. Very cool to see a full page image of my work in it. Such amazing artwork in this show by incredible artists. What an honor to be included! #ceramics #clay