Alison Carter

University of Arkansas, University of Oklahoma

student

UA Ceramic Artists! NCECA!

making things with other things, discovering the meaning of life and love and all the rest. Waving at people enthusiastically. Going out for $1 beers, or $4 pitchers, or $1.50 well drinks. Walking or biking to all destinations despite the heat and hills. Being as competent a graduate assistant as I can possibly be. Maintaining a sunny disposition despite these cloudy times.

The Body Project, the Subversive Stitch, The Artist's Way, The Awakening, Only a Factory Girl by Rosie M. Banks, Harry Potter, any Lucy Lippard and occasionally Linda Weintraub, David Sedaris, P.G. Wodehouse, books with billions of glaze recipes AND color photos.

Kill Bill vol. 1 &2, I heart Huckabees, harold and maude, little otik, Amandla!, down with love, a room with a view, films by any of the following: Don Hertzfeldt, Wes Anderson, P.T. Anderson, Alfonso Cuaron, the Coen Brothers, Baz Luhrmann, aw crap, Tim Burton. Nearly anything starring: Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Gael Garcia Bernal, Renee Zellweger (EXCEPT Jerry Maguire, puke), Helena Bonham Carter, Naomi Watts, and BILL MURRAY.

beck, pharcyde, spoon, belle and sebastian, the shins, bjork, BEULAH, of montreal, the roots, bishop allen, flaming lips, starlight mints, outkast, metered spirits, aesop rock, grandaddy, d'angelo, fruit bats, yo la tengo, the J.B.'s, hackensaw boys, the white stripes, mix cds made by my dearest friends, anything with a fat beat that'll get this booty shakin'

Aquarius

In nearly every situation I have ever found myself in: I am the girl with the plan.

All kinds. Bring the brainy cynics, affable airheads, and laid back loungers - except leave those damn haters at home!