Virginia Thompson spends her days teaching adults to play in the mud as an Art instructor in Ceramics and Sculpture at Cochise College in Sierra Vista, AZ. She has enough hobbies and interests for about 14 people, yet can’t seem to eliminate any of them to free up more time. Along with being a professional potter and occasional installation artist, she enjoys hiking in the Huachuca Mountains and rock climbing on the weekends with her husband and friends, plays the piano and the banjo (but not at the same time), and sings more-or-less on-key with a small skiffle band as well as writing songs for them to perform. She is an avid knitter and crocheter who has begun to experiment with pattern design, sews garments (mostly Covid masks these days) and quilts with the skills her mother taught her, enjoys exploring cooking plant-based international cuisine in her instant pot, and speaks quite passable Japanese and Spanish. She has currently completed reading 32 of the 93 Pulitzer Prize novel / fiction- winning books, and is therefore 34% done with her mission to read them all. Her two adorable cats comprise 98% of her instagram feed @vapfau.
NCECA – National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts
National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Folk Tales from around the world
Fuji-cho, now a part of Sagaken, Nagasaki, Japan
Manga – comic books, “Hadashi no Gen” or “Barefoot Gen” (in English) about Nagasaki and the atomic bombs dropped there during WW II
Furuto Oribe curator of Ceramics for Lord Oda Nobunaga enthusiast of Chado (the Way of Tea) connected to tea master Sen No Rikyū
(Hyouge Mono (2011) Kôichi Mashimo and six other Directors, Hiroyuki Kawasaki, Yoshihiro Yamada, Screenwriters, Also in Manga (Comic Book) form
Mission Impossible (1996) Brian De Palma, Director, Based on the TV series by Bruce Geller, David Koepp and Robert Towne, Screenwriters
The Last Samurai (2003) Edward Zwick, Director, John Logan, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Screenwriters
Frida (2002) Julie Taymor, Director, Book, Hayden Herrera, Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas, Screenwriters
Six Famous Ancient Kilns of Japan, Set, Echizen, Tokoname, Shigaraki, Tanba, and Bizen
Another ancient kiln, Hagi where they use seaweed water to enhance the clay
Seven Cups Fine Chinese Teas, Tucson Tea House
Casa Vicente in Tucson, Arizona. Temporarily closed.
Arizona Theatre Company, Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona
Arizona Opera, Tucson Music Hall
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Nazca pottery For sale on Etsy
Glastonbury, England
Mimbres Potters of Western New Mexico
The Louvre, Paris, France
The Musée d’Osay, Paris, France
Claude Monet, Artist (1840 – 1926)
Édouard Manet, Artist (1832 – 1883)
Notre-Dame Cathedral – Sculpture of Joan of Arc
Johannes Vermeer, Artist (1632 – 1675)
Adelaide, South Australia – Tanzania National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
The Prado – Guernica by Pablo Picasso
The Van Gogh Museum – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Loving Vincent (2017) Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Directors, Korota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, and Jacek Dehnel, Screenwriters
The Taj Mahal, Agra, India
Raj Ghat, Gandhi’s cremation location, Delhi, India
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Laos, Bordered by North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and China
Myanmar – The Hunger Games symbol, Movie (2012) Gary Ross, Director, Novel, Suzanne Collins, Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, Billy Ray, Screenwriters
Nepal – Brittney Spears posters
Taiwan, Island Nation off the coast of China
Arita- Porcelain producing city in Japan
Pulitzer Prize Book List on Goodreads
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Underground Railway, Colson Whitehead
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
The Overstory, Richard Powers
The Valley of Decision, Novel, Marcia Davenport, Movie (1945) Tay Garnett, Director, John Neehan, Sonya Levien, Screenwriters
Get Lit Bookstore – “Support Your Local Bookstore”, episode #16
Libro.FM
Hummingbird Digital Media
Kobo e-reader – audiobook subscription
Mingei Movement in Japan Film Upcycle Stitches post
Ghost, (1990) Jerry Zucker, Director, Bruce Joel Rubin, Screenwriter
Sundays At Tiffany’s, (2010) Mark Piznarski, Director, Jennifer Heath, Heather Maidat, Nancey Silvers, Teleplay, Novel, James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
The Red Violin, (1998) François Girard, Director, Don McKellar, François Girard, Screenwriters
The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” ~ Roger C. Schank, Cognitive Scientist
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