Director, Ceramics Program and Visual Arts Initiatives
Kathy King is an active studio artist in the Boston area, an instructor, and the Director of the Ceramics Program and Visual Arts Initiatives at Harvard's Office for the Arts. ... Read more about Kathy King
Dates: May 28 - August 6 (11 classes) Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm via Zoom Level: Beginner - Advanced Instructor: Anne Eder
Course Description: Get outdoors with this introduction to plant-based printing processes that use light and common plant materials obtained from the backyard, a nearby park, or even the grocery! This class introduces plant-based printing processes that use light and common plant materials! It will cover anthotypes, chlorophyll printing, and other plant-based printing methods. We willmeet via an online platform once a week for demonstrations, and students will then take what they have learned and
Course Description: Step right up, spin the wheel, and let the chance elements of The Randomizer influence your work. In addition to pursuing independent projects with dual instructor input, students can take a spin of “The Randomizer,” which will determine what you make and the clay, tools, and techniques used to make your work that day. Try a new clay body, stretch those unused throwing muscles, improve your hand-building skills, or pick up a new surface technique. This class encourages play and gets you out of your comfort zone. Additional randomizers may be used to determine glazing and firing methods. *No class on July 4th, 2024, due to Independence Day... Read more about The Randomizer
Course Description: Clay’s responsiveness to touch makes it the ideal medium to sculpt what we can see with our eyes and new forms that reveal what we cannot. Through lectures and demonstrations, we will discuss various techniques for developing individual creative approaches that students will then use to make a small body of work.The instructor has experience teaching representational and abstraction techniques and can adapt styles to meet the needs of the students. When relevant, we will explore non-ceramic sculpture methods to adda finishing touch to our work.
Dates: May 29 - July 31 (10 classes | 11 weeks) - WAITLISTED Day/Time: Wednesdays, 6:30 – 9:30pm Level: Advanced Instructor: Audrey An
Course Description: Join 2022-24 Artist-in-Residence Audrey An in exploring computer-aided modes of clay working. Students must have prior mold experience to take this class. Thinking about hand-machine collaboration, the class will introduce various methods to design tools to aid your studio practice or generate digital models that will ultimately become ceramic objects. Throughout the course, students will gain basic proficiency in CAD (computer-aided design) software, Rhinoceros 3D, to create forms that can be folded in paper, 3D printed in plastic to make a plaster
Course Description: In this class, you will learn various ways to capture the likeness of the human figure, working from photographs and life. You will use slabs and clothing patterns, coils, pinch-pots, and templates, emphasizing hands, feet, and facial features.
Dates: May 28 - August 6 (10 classes | 11 weeks)* Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:30 - 9:30 pm Level: Intermediate - Advanced Instructor: Tom Hubbard
Course Description: Long ago, the local general store stocked many products and was the only place in town for manufactured articles and other necessities. This class will use the General Store's inventory as inspiration for hand-built ceramic work, from bottles, flasks, enamelware, and watering cans to tools and other items. Soft slab construction techniques and simple molds will explore these familiar forms. Texture and other surface treatments will also be covered, including stamping, stencils, and underglaze transfers. Classes will consist of short slide lectures, work sessions, demonstrations, and discussions of design/construction strategies and glazing considerations. Please bring a sketchbook or reference materials for projects.
Course Description: Get ready for a deep dive into surface exploration. Discover new ways to liven up your hand-built or thrown ceramic vessels and consider design elements as you decorate a wide range of functional objects. Expand your technical skillset as you learn to apply slip in new ways, experiment with resist methods, and carve and pierce clay. * There will be no class on July 2nd due to instructor travel.
Course Description: Explore the musical possibilities of clay! Students will learn to make tuned, playable ocarinas (closed-vessel ceramic flutes), including multiple-chambered ocarinas. We will also play with other 'musical clay' objects, such as ceramic flutes,percussion instruments,rattles, etc. Work will be fired in Raku and Saggar.*No class on July 4th.
Course Description: Join 2023-24 Artist-in-Residence Forrest SincoffGard in developing your hand-building skills and confidence in clay. The class will explore the fluidity and tactility of hand-building through techniques such as pinching, coiling, and slab-building and an introduction to mold-making. Projects will explore ceramic sculpture, utilitarian forms, games, clay as play, and pieces with movement. In-class demonstrations will address construction issues and functions and cover various surface decoration techniques.Note - Yes, those waffles ARE made out of clay!
Saturday and Sunday June 15-16, 2024 10am-5pm each day Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to study directly with an internationally recognized maker of narrative ceramic sculpture. In this two-day workshop, participants will explore narrative figure sculpture with renowned ceramic artist Kensuke Yamada. Using coil building and other handbuilding techniques, participants will construct figurative sculptures in stoneware clay. Through demonstrations and individual critiques, Yamada will share his process of imbuing ceramic figures with nuanced narratives that comment on the human experience. Students will learn techniques for sculpting realistic yet poetic details and surfaces that enhance emotional resonance. The workshop will focus on capturing fleeting moments and subtle interactions to provoke reflection in viewers.... Read more about Kensuke Yamada Visiting Artist Workshop
This lecture is full/waitlisted and registration is now closed.
Yonatan Hopp is an industrial designer who works predominantly in ceramics, with a hands-on research-through-making approach. His practice brings together methods and modes of work from industrial design, digital fabrication and craft to investigate new possibilities for production of objects. His research explores how the combination of these methodologies may generate original object languages, free of appropriated traditions, archetypical forms or paraphrased signs. A 2022 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in the category of Design and Architecture, Yonatan has exhibited his work in venues such as the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), the Gardiner Museum (Toronto), the Museum of Art and Design (NYC) and the Yingge Museum (Taipei). ... Read more about Yonatan Hopp Artist Lecture
In this workshop, undergraduates will refine their skills and receive individuated guidance oriented around personal goals.
This workshop is for students who are comfortable working on their own. Sign up if you have taken a beginner course in wheel throwing at a Harvard House, the Ceramics Program or another studio.
WAITLISTED Instructor: Nicholas Putnam Meets two Saturdays: March 30, 2024 10am – 1pm April 6, 2024 10am – 5pm (students will need not be present outside of printing their work) This workshop is limited to Harvard College Undergraduate students. This workshop is a fun introduction to the Ceramic Program’s new LUTUM® v4.6 3D clay printer. You will learn about basic digital 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.... Read more about Clay 3d Printing 101 For Harvard College Undergraduates
Friday, March 29, 2024
Meets four Fridays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm