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"Korean Buncheong Ware: Namhi Kim Wagner's Continuing Source of Inspiration"
by Robert D. Mowry
Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus
Harvard Art Museums

"From Preceptor to Master Potter at Harvard - Namhi Kim Wagner"
by Nancy Selvage
Former Director, Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

RSVP to Kathy King, Director of Education at kking@fas.harvard.edu.

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From Senior Preceptor to Master Potter at Harvard - Namhi Kim Wagner
March 23 - May 21, 2016
Lectures: Saturday, March 26th, 2016, 4pm - 5pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 26, 2016, 5pm - 7pm

Free and open to the public.

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Presented by: Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Join us for a day of demonstration with internationally acclaimed sculptor Cristina Córdova. Córdova, who was recently named a 2015 United States Artists Fellow through the American Craft Council, will lead us into a deeper technical and intuitive understanding of achieving the human form in clay. A variety of skills for creating expressive figure sculpture will be demonstrated as well as detailing techniques for achieving clarity and interest in different figurative formats. Participants will also gain insight into the potential of gestures and positions to generate context and depth within the figure narrative.  There will be a public lecture from 5:00pm - 6:00pm at the conclusion of the workshop held next door at the Harvard Ed Portal.

This workshop is free to Harvard students. The fee for this one-day workshop is $80.00 for those not enrolled in a course, $40.00 for those enrolled in a course. To register, download our registration form here or email Shawn Panepinto at panepint@fas.harvard.edu. Questions? Email Kathy King at kking@fas.harvard.edu.

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Presented by: Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Join us in celebrating our 2015-2016 Artist-in-Residence, Salvador Jiménez Florez in his first public lecture on his work, life and inspirations since joining the Ceramics Program. Salvador Jiménez-Flores was born and raised Jamay in Jalisco, México. Since coming to the United States, Jiménez has contributed to the Midwest art scene by producing a mixture of socially conscious installations, public art, and studio-based art. Jiménez received a Bachelors of Applied Arts in Graphic Design at Chicago’s Robert Morris University and a Masters of Fine Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design. His work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and will be featured in Gallery 224 at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard Fall 2016.

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Presented by:  Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Workshop Description:

In cooperation with our friends at Pucker Gallery, we are proud to host Japanese ceramic artist, Ken Matsuzaki, to the studio for a one day demonstration of his work with a lunch time DVD on his work and influences. He will demonstrate his masterful use of wheel thrown and hand built ceramic form which will truly be both enlightening and informative.Participants will be able to view Matsuzaki's work during the exhibition One with the Elements: Ceramics by Ken Matsuzaki at Pucker Gallery June 4th - July 17th.
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Presented by:  Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Workshop Description
Ceramics Program instructor Allison Newsome invites you to travel to the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts where she will lead an exclusive two-day luster workshop for friends of Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard and the greater Harvard community. Many of Beatrice Wood's famous, highly coveted luster recipes and firing techniques for those glazes will be explored during the two day workshop. Students are invited to bring bisque work with them to immediately start firing and will be able to work in the studio on-site.

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Presented by Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

The “Our Community Lectures” are an on-going series dedicated to celebrating scholars and organizations dedicated to the promotion of the study of craft mediums both locally and at the national level. 

Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard’s Director of Education, Kathy King, also wears the hat of a “Penland Ambassador” and will present a lecture on the history and current opportunities for craft education, scholarship and residency at the Penland School of Crafts located in the mountains of North Carolina. King believes that much of her personal, artistic development was influenced by her experience with Penland initially as a work-study student, later as a studio assistant and, most recently, an instructor of two-week summer courses as well as an eight week, spring concentration.

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Presented by Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

The “New Voices Lectures” are an on-going series highlighting some of the most talented emerging artists utilizing the ceramic medium in the field of contemporary art. 

Join us for a lecture by Judd Schiffman as we welcome him back to the Boston area after receiving his Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Presented by: Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Welcome Steve Murphy to the Ceramics Program as the new instructor for the Monday evening "Basics and Challenges" class with a visual lecture on his work and influences.  Steve, a potter/sculptor working primarily in clay began his arts education with a BFA in Design from UMass Dartmouth and continued on to study clay in Nagano, Japan. Now in his 20th year as a studio artist, his specialties are wood-fired stoneware and most recently, cast bronze.  In addition to the Ceramics Program, Murphy teachings adults and children at the Mudflat Pottery School and Danforth Art Museum School.

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 Presented by Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Please join us in welcoming artist and educator Ellen Schön to the Ceramics Program through this presentation of Ellen's work and influences. Ellen will be working with the program this semester as a Visiting Critic for the "Input/Output" class. Regarding her iconic vessel work, Ellen states, "I have always been interested in the ability of a ceramic vessel to point to something beyond itself, to function as metaphor. Ceramic vessels, physically structured with necks, shoulders, bellies, and feet, can evoke the gesture and anthropomorphized stance of the human body; they also reveal deep aspects of human experience and of the natural world."

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