ELFIE HARRIS

My plan was to be an artist. Actually art was the only thing I seemed to be able to do day after day and be interested and involved in so I decided that I should learn a trade to support me wherever it was that my art would take me. And I did learn a trade. I studied with Rudi Staffel at Tyler art school while I was in high school and I became a proficient potter, I began to work in porcelain. Then I graduated, went to Callifornia, got a motorcycle, crashed the motorcycle, learned goldsmithing and finally got a degree in sculpture from Brandeis University (and incidentally learned a lot about sculpting and sculpture from Peter Grippe). Brandeis put me in the way of a Watson Foundation fellowship which for some miracle I was awarded (and it really was a miracle). The grant allowed me to go to Italy to learn bronze casting which I felt would be useful for my figurative sculpture... While in Pietrasanta, Italy for a year I learned that I hated bronze casting, that I was actually an..

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