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GREG PRICE Age 49
Greg has been an art teacher with L.A.Unified School
District for over 10 years. He has a B.F.A. from California College of Arts
and Crafts and worked as Director of Admissions for the Art Center College
of Design in Pasadena. Several years ago he realized that his teaching
career could be advanced if he added ceramics to the list of subjects he was
qualified to teach. He came to GCC to learn to work with clay. He was
impressed by what he saw and learned, and credits Rob Kibler and Mark Poore
with providing an incredible program. Greg says he continues to learn and
push the limits of his creativity, sharing various aspects of the art with
other classmates, and he still attends classes at GCC. He enjoys developing
new glazes and techniques and shows his work professionally several times a
year.
Greg currently heads the ceramics department at “The
Highly Gifted Magnet School” at North Hollywood High School. Pumping new
life into the program, he has initiated two special events for his students.
His “No Ho Varsity Clay Team” competes annually in an Olympic-style event
called “CSUN Clay Day.” He also organizes an annual show exhibiting his
student’s work at North Hollywood Art Gallery. After taking several art
history classes at GCC, Price now incorporates art history into his advanced
classes, creating unusual projects to intrigue and stimulate his students’
creativity. He states that his passion for his art and his total enjoyment
in the classroom would not have been possible without the incredible
education he received at GCC. Price’s raku pottery was featured on the cover
of GCC’s Gateways publication in spring/summer 2003. Additionally, his
former students are now showing up in the GCC ceramics lab. |
