LOGAN IVERSON

ABOUT LOGAN IVERSON

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THE BASICS

I am married to my beautiful wife Kayla who is my Jr. High school sweetheart. We live in Centerville with our three little girls. Family is the most important aspect of my life and when I am not teaching, I am with them. We love to travel and experience new activities and places. I enjoy my work, doing improvements to my house, running, camping, traveling, playing with my children, and of course, sculpting. 

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I grew up in Farmington, Utah and graduated from Viewmont High School. After high school, I attended the University of Utah on a full art scholarship and spent 2 years working in the art lab. I began working at UPS right out of high school.  I began as a loader and worked my way up through the management track and ended my career as a Driver Supervisor when I began teaching ceramics at Ben Lomond High School.

 

EDUCATION

I graduated from the University of Utah with a (BFA) Bachelors of Fine Art with a cross emphasis of Sculpture/Ceramics in 2012. I graduated from Weber State University with a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in 2017. I currently teach Ceramics at Ben Lomond High School in Ogden Utah. The classes that I currently offer are Ceramics 1, 2, 3, and AP. 

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WHY I TEACH

I believe that teaching ceramics is what I was born to do. It is my love and my passion. I thrive on "sculpting" my students into the amazing people they are going to become and in the process helping them create beautiful works of art. 

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STUDENT FEEDBACK

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I wanted to take a moment to give Mr. Iverson a big shout out!
If it wasn't for him I wouldn't of graduated ❤
I appreciate everything you've done for me and help push me to do things 💗
It wasn't that you let me just go in your classroom to work off U's and detentions and breath in all that clay, 😂
Every day I would walk in that class room and you always had a smile when I came in and it made me feel welcomed 💗
You always made me laugh when I had the most awful day and always seemed to make it better 😊
I didn't like ceramics. I hated the class actually. I hated to go I didn't Like the people in there. But once you started to work with me
I felt more comfortable with coming to class and school.
When I had some things going on with me and you told me when I was about to be in tears
You looked right at me and said "Hey Dom, Don't worry about a thing because every lil single thing is gonna be alright"
Legit those words helped me more than you know. I'm so lucky I got the opportunity to have such a great teacher help me as much as you did and I'm forever so thankful for you ❤
I hope life treats you well and I will for sure come visit you when the school year starts up again 😎
Thank you for everything you've helped me with Iverson and I hope for nothing but the best for you and your family 💗💗 bless yalls souls 💕

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I already posted a graduation status, but this appreciation post is kind of obligatory. I graduated 2 days ago. It still doesn't feel real and it probably won't for a couple of months. But the fact that I did at all was a miracle in itself. I wouldn't be where I am today without the support of my peers and amazing teachers, especially Mr. Iverson. During his first year teaching, he provided all of his students with an amazing classroom environment and was easy to get along with. Because of this, I found myself confiding in him many many times about current or past situations I had found myself in. And even if they weren't the kind of things you would tell a teacher, he still listened, and that's all I really needed. I can say that we definitely didn't always get along, and sometimes we were both a little irritated with one another. But eventually we would be back to joking around. Within the 8 months of my senior year, Mr. Iverson became my favorite teacher. I felt safe and confident enough to tell him literally anything and trust that the responses he would give back were wholehearted. He also really helped me grow as an artist, and I'm so grateful for that. If It weren't for the countless hours spent in his class, the stories passed between us, the constant encouragement from him to keep pushing, being threatened to recieve an F- grade, always being called a "gomer", or the overall friendly personality he gave off, I probably wouldn't have graduated. I owe one of the biggest thank you's to him. The last day I had his class I asked him to write me a heartfelt note which I would get from him at graduation. At the very end of the letter he had wrote "Don't stop growing and don't be afraid of change. Don't worry, be happy". I immediately broke down into tears as I related it to my life over the past month and a half and events that had taken place within that time. I had been emotionally damaged and felt little hope for the success of my future. But with a small and simple phrase, Mr. Iverson gave me the reassuring feeling that everything will end up okay. I am so beyond greatful for this man and everything he has done for me over the past year. I can't put into words how blessed I am to have had the opportunity to get to know him and learn from him. Thank you for everything, Mr. Iverson. You're one hell of a teacher.🤙

Thanks a bunch

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TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

• Exhibition Installation

  • Experienced in the matting and framing of artworks, hanging of two-dimensional art work, fabrication of pedestals and cases for three-dimensional works, placement of three-dimensional works in exhibition layout and lighting exhibition.

• Ceramic Processes

  • Cone 10 glaze, engobes, slips, oxides, kiln wash, and cone packs.    

• Kiln Firing

  • Experience with Stationary and cart gas kilns, electric, raku, wood, soda, sager, pit, and horsehair firings.  

• Mold Making

  • Extensive experience with Silicone, Plaster, Polyurethane, and Alginate mold making including life casting.

• Casting

  • Casting experience with materials such as plaster, WEP, casting resins, concrete, ceramic slips, bronze, aluminum and experimental materials such a sawdust and paper.

• Metal Working and Welding

  • Hands on

    • Experience with full process of bronze/aluminum casting, soldering, silver soldering, brazing, copper/steel raising, forging, small metals fabrication, centrifugal casting, repousse, enameling and welding.

  • Machines

    • Experience with machining drill press, metal lathe, forge, kilns, belt sanders, wheel grinders, TIG welder, MIG welder, oxy acetylene welder, plasma cutter, porta-band, angle grinder, and horizontal band saw.

• Wood Working  

  • Hands On

    • Wood fabrication, joinery, lamination, design, jigs, and equipment safety.

  • Machines

    • Table saw, miter saw, clamps, chisels, coping saw, belt sanders, disc sanders, orbital sanders, planer, radial arm saw, bandsaw, table and plunge routers, biscuit joiner, joiner, spokeshave

• Computer  

  • Experienced in both PC and Macintosh platforms

    • Certified Cad Drafting

    • Word Processing

    • Digital Image Scanning

    • Digital Image Manipulation

    • Digital Video Editing

    • Input And Output of Digital Image And Digital Video

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