The Cookie Jar Project 2022

What is the cookie Jar Project?

The Gist:

With an enormous sweet tooth, I set off on a journey to create 52 one of a kind Cookie Jars by the end of 2022. This weekly project was started as a way to explore, expand and flex my creative muscles. We create each jar by blindly selecting 3 prompts - 2 random words and 1 art style ie. Cat, Sun, Pointillism. Those 3 words help us to create boundaries to work within. Besides our prompts the only rules for this project is to start a Jar every week. To go a step further - Once the cookie jars are completed we will be collaborating with bakers, chefs and friends to create a themed cookie for each jar.

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In 2021 I spent way too much time making the same pieces of pottery over and over again - hello, 600+ candle holders. It was time for a reboot with a new project that focused on pushing me out of my comfort zone, to connect me back to art history and to get me thinking outside of the box I had put myself in. Only recently had I started to expand into more colorful pieces of pottery (see the Watercolor Series) and I didn’t want to let that experiment go to waste.

The seed for the Cookie Jar Project was planted when my partner and I took a trip to a local antique store where we found lots of vintage cookie jars. There were so many jars of all different shapes and sizes - classic cylinders, vegetables, animals etc. With the endless options of what a cookie jar could look like I knew it was our next project.

We slowly gathered our prompts, made our first selections and off we went.

Cookie Jar Updates (7/2022)

#1 Chicken, Wild Flowers, Stippling (Remake)
#2 Human Face, Snow, Dada (Finished)
#3 Cake, Mice, Art Nouveau (Finished)
#4 Fairy, Frog, Impressionism (Finished)
#5 Cat, Banana, Sculpture (Finished)
#6 Sunset, Black Eyed Susan, Art Deco (Work in Progress)
#7 Monarch Butterfly, Pine Tree, Picasso (Finished)
#8 Summer, Lavender, Texture (Not yet started)
#9 Honey Bees, Tomato, Surreal (Not yet started)

Cookie Jar #2 using the prompts: Dada, Human Face & Snow