WAITLISTED Meets two Sundays, February 11th and 25th, 2024 2:00 - 4:00pm each day Instructor: Adriana Sousa In this two-part workshop for Harvard College Undergraduates, attendees will first use hand building techniques, like pinching coils and draping slabs over molds, to construct a flower frog, a classic tool that aids in arranging flowers. Choose a glaze before you go, and return to the studio on day two to use your piece in an ikebana-inspired floral arranging class.
WAITLISTED Saturday, February 3, 2024 10am-5pm with 1 hour lunch break
Join us for a day with Yeonsoo Kim as he demonstrates his use of traditional methods of making with contemporary surface. Kim utilizes the Onggi technique, a method unique in the world for slab, coil building large pots and forms. Traditionally born out of necessity in Korea, Onggi pots were and still are used today for food fermentation and storage. What makes Kim’s work so unique is his approach to surface. Using slip and sgraffito techniques on clay, he invites us to a world that combines humans, nature, and space. These works, when amassed, act as a type of diary or a visual record of listening to his inner voice. His works explore identity and psychological conditions through the processes of making and daily life.... Read more about Yeonsoo Kim Visiting Artist Workshop
Dates: May 31 - August 9 (10 classes | 11 weeks) Day/Time: Fridays, 10:00am - 1:00pm Level:Beginner - Advanced Instructor: Jennifer Peace
Course Description: From tiny pinch pots to larger sculptural vessels, this class will focus on developing hand building skills. We will consider both practical and expressive intentions behind the work people do. Participants will be encouraged to notice the ways they handle and respond to clay and how this awareness can lead to creating work that is uniquely their own. Due to instructor travel, this class will feature guest instructors - Mary Kenny and Diane Lulek. July 26th will be a work-day with a make-up class on August 9th.
Wednesday, November 8th 10am - 12:00pm Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
As a functional potter, how does one cultivate an audience that appreciates the hand-made in a world of commercial consumables? Where can we find fellow artists who are interested in conversations around the details of what makes great functional objects – how the lid fits on that jar, how the handle feels in your hand, etc.?
Janice Jakielski is a Massachusetts and Colorado based sculptor. By inventing new ways of casting and manipulating ultra-thin porcelain sheets she is able to create impossible objects of curiosity, objects to provide focus, retreat and pause in an overwhelming world.
She received her Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Bachelor in Fine Arts from New York State College of Ceramic Art and Design at Alfred University. Exhibitions include; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Washington DC, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR and the Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY. ... Read more about Janice Jakielski Artist Lecture
Forrest Sincoff Gard earned his BFA from Ohio University, completed post-baccalaureate studies at the University of Florida, and received his MFA from... Read more about Forrest Sincoff Gard
Cathy Lu (she/they) is a ceramic artist working in sculpture and installation to explore Asian-American identity, and how issues of immigration, cultural... Read more about Cathy C. Lu
Janina Myronova (Wroclaw, Poland) is a ceramic sculptor who creates narrative through figurative forms and composed backdrops. Utilizing a specific and distorted representation of the body, each composition shows a different personality and personal story to collectively reference a graphic novel and arcing story. Imparting her own emotion through linework, Myronova’s works are strategically charged with color to saturate and amplify their individual stories.
Level: Beginner - Intermediate Meets 2 days: Saturday and Sunday, October 21and 22, 10am – 1pm each day
Registration for this workshop is open to anyone 18+
From classic flowerpots to cylindrical utensil holders to fanciful forms you dream up, this two-day weekend workshop will walk you through all you need to know to design and build a custom coil-built vessel out of terra cotta – a rich red, low-fire clay body. On day one you will learn the basics of coil-building and start building your own custom vessel. On day two you will finish your piece and add texture, color, and designs using a range of tools including black, white, and red oxides or slips.
Instructor: Nicholas Putnam Saturday, November 4th, 10am – 1pm Saturday, November 11th 10am – 5pm (students will need not be present outside of printing their work) This workshop is limited to undergraduate students from SEAS (School of Engineering and Applied Science).
This workshop is a partnership with the Reef Makerspace at SEAS and serves as an introduction and fun opportunity to learn about the Ceramic Program’s new LUTUM® v4.6 3D clay printer. You will learn about basic modeling tools and design preparation. You do not need prior 3D modeling software experience to explore this new tool. You will start with a simple, hand-drawn sketch and transform it, with the help of the instructor, into a file that the printer will use to create the object.
Session 1: * 3D clay printing (overview, 3D ceramic artist inspiration) * Lutum 3D Printer (printing demo, printer and process description) * Design (overview of the 3D modeling process and tools, overview of the non-modeling sketch requirements to submit for the print)
Location: Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Registration will open on September 5 for everyone 18+
Ocarinas (closed-vessel ceramic flutes) have a history that dates back 12,000 years. Ocarinas were popular in pre-Colombian and ancient Chinese cultures, became a European ensemble instrument in the 19th century, and appeared in the Nintendo game TheLegend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in the 1990s. In this 3-session workshop, you will learn how to craft and tune your own clay ocarinas. On the second and third session, you'll glaze your ocarinas for raku and low fire electric firings.
Registration will open on September 5 for all user types
Drawing from an ongoing collaborative practice with 2022-23 Ceramics Program Artist In Residence Nicolas Touron, Amy Lemaire sculpts borosilicate glass which is combined with Touron’s 3D printed porcelain forms. This workshop will focus on the glassmaker’s perspective in the collaboration and the logistics of combining glass and clay together in sculptural practice. Using a table mounted torch, Lemaire will sculpt hollow glass forms using a process called flameworking. Viewers will leave with a greater understanding of how glass can be manipulated in relation to ceramics, and lots of tips and tricks for successfully combining glass and clay together. Nicolas Touron will also give a brief overview of the 3D printing process. Find Touron and Lemaire's collaborative sculptures on display in their exhibition Nature 2.0 in the Ceramics Program's gallery.... Read more about Amy Lemaire Visiting Artist Demonstration
Saturday, October 28, 2023 - FULL/Registration closed
10am-5pm with 1 hour lunch break
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Registration will open on September 5 for all user types
As an admirer of bisque molded pottery through the ages, Lisa Orr throws in bisque molds as the ancient romans did, embellishing with fluid slip drawings, and topping with hand formed sprigs. In this one-day workshop, Lisa Orr will demonstrate her processes for making bowls, a teapot, a mug, her signature butter dish, and a lacy, stained-glass-slip-supported salt cellar. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to make their own relief sprig positive and catch-all using Lisa’s molds.
Think big in terms of vases, bottles, and tall forms (pitchers for example) using the potter’s wheel and/or hand-building techniques such as coiling and slab building. Then, learn surface decoration techniques including slip application, inlay, and carving into the clay. The workshop will finish with an introduction to glaze and glazing techniques to prepare for the final kiln firing!
This workshop comes with daily access to the Ceramics Program for the duration of the workshop to practice what you have learned!
Wednesday, November 8th
