Artist Ehren Tool Featured on news.berkeley.edu
Artist and Art Practice Ceramics Technician Ehren Tool is featured in an in-depth news story on news.berkeley.edu: Ehren Tool’s cups aren’t for sale. They’re for starting conversations — about war.
Ehren Tool is the ceramics studio manager in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. In his off-time, he makes clay cups that he hopes start conversations about war. (UC Berkeley video by Stephen McNally and Roxanne Makasdjian)
At the pottery wheel in his basement home studio, surrounded by artwork hanging from the low wooden ceiling and ceramic cups stacked onto every shelf, Tool looks like he’s where he’s supposed to be. As he spins clay into cup after cup, it’s clear that the process is like breathing — something he does without thinking, something he needs to do.