Ceramics

Combined Methods

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Fall

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2019

Dates: September 4 - November 20 Absolute Beginners
Days/Times: Wednesdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Instructor: Ruth Easterbrook

Course description: Join 2019 - 20 Artist in Residence Ruth Easterbrook for Combined Methods. This course is primarily a studio class structured around student proposals for a current body of work in combination with thematic assignments. Assignments will highlight and examine advanced process based learning involving surface techniques, altered or complex forms, slip an and glazing techniques. (12 classes/14 weeks)

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Basics and Challenges

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2019

Dates: September 6 - November 22 Basics and Challenges
Days/Times: Fridays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Level: Beginning - Intermediate
Instructor: Zac Mickelson

Course description: Demonstrations, individual critiques, and lots of hands-on time will engage students in learning the basics of wheel throwing, hand building, and surface decoration. Creative approaches to altered and combined elements will provide challenges for more experienced students. (12 classes/14 weeks)

Basics and Challenges

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2019

Dates: September 5 - November 21 Basics and Challenges
Days/Times: Thursdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Level: Beginning - Intermediate
Instructor: Denny McLaughlin

Course description: Demonstrations, individual critiques, and lots of hands-on time will engage students in learning the basics of wheel throwing, hand building, and surface decoration. Creative approaches to altered and combined elements will provide challenges for more experienced students. (12 classes/14 weeks)
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Basics and Challenges

Semester:

Fall

Offered:

2019

Dates: September 9 - November 25 Basics with Steve
Days/Times: Mondays, 6:30 - 9:30pm
Level: Beginning - Intermediate
Instructor: Steve Murphy

Course description: Demonstrations, individual critiques, and lots of hands-on time will engage students in learning the basics of wheel throwing, hand building, and surface decoration. Creative approaches to altered and combined elements will provide challenges for more experienced students. (12 classes/13 weeks)
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2015 Oct 27

New Voices Lecture with Alia Pialtos

Registration Closed 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Location:

Ceramics Studio - 224 Western Avenue, Allston, MA 02134

Presented by Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Welcome artist Alia Pialtos back to the New England area after receiving her MFA from University of Colorado at Boulder to take on the position of Artist in Residence at the Worcester Center for Crafts. Pialtos’ work uses materials such as clay, thread, hair and glass to act as physical or metaphorical extensions of the body, amplifying the visceral reactions we experience while engaging with those we feel closest to.
Slide Presentation: 5:30pm – 6:30 pm.

This event is free and open to the public. Seats are limited. To RSVP sign up below or email Kathy King at kking@fas.harvard.edu.

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2009 Feb 16

Zhu Legeng: My Odyssey in Porcelain

12:00pm

Location:

Ceramics Studio

legeng Presented By Ceramics Program

Zhu Legeng and his wife Fang Lili were born in China's porcelain capitol Jingdezhen and both graduated from the Art Department of Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute.

Zhu Legeng is currently director of the Ceramics Research Center and Professor of Ceramics at Chinese Academy of Arts in Beijing. A...

2009 Apr 23

Fukami, Sueharu: Celadon Sculpture

12:00pm

Location:

Ceramics Studio

fukami Presented By Ceramics Program

The prominent porcelain artist Fukami Sueharu will be featured in a presentation at the Ceramics Program on April 23 and in the Japan Society's annual Rad Smith lecture on April 22 at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. These presentations and the Museum of Fine Arts' exhibition "Celebrating Kyoto: Modern...

2009 Jun 09

Kusakabe, Masakazu: "I am a Teabowl" a 4-day workshop

12:00pm

Location:

Ceramics Studio

kusakabe tea bowl Presented By Ceramics Program

Kusakabe, Masakazu will engage participants in throwing, trimming, and raku firing tea bowls. His ecumenical and spirited approach to this traditional practice will infuse "the way of tea" with new life and meaning.

Kusakabe, Masakazu has...

2009 Jun 15

Hamada, Tomo'o

(All day)

Location:

Ceramics Studio

hamada Presented By Ceramics Program

Hamada, Tomoo will demonstrate glazing and give a presentation about his family legacy in Mashiko. He is the grandson of Hamada Shoji, "National Living Treasure" and major figure of the mingei folk-art movement.

"Hamada, Tomo'o's pots utilize essentially the same materials as those of Hamada...

Visiting Artist Workshop with Angela Cunningham

2:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Ceramics Studio

cunningham Presented By Ceramics Program

Ceramic artist Angela Cunningham will discuss her exquisitely detailed and provocative body of work inspired by forms in nature. Demonstrations of her artistic process and a sampling of her construction methods, including hand building and wheel throwing techniques, will be shown....

2012 Oct 12

Visiting Artist Workshop with Mary Barringer

10:00am to 4:00pm

Location:

Ceramics Studio

barringer Presented By Ceramics Program

Barringer is interested in the interplay between the form and the surface and ways of thinking about how each influences the other.

During this workshop Barringer will demonstrate her use of hand building processes and slips to keep the form and the surface evolving in tandem...

2012 Nov 12

Visiting Artist Presentation with Young Jae Lee

10:00am

Location:

Ceramics Studio

Lee Presented By National Model United Nations

Represented by Pucker Gallery since 2012
BORN: 1951, Seoul, South Korea
RESIDES: Essen, Germany

Young Jae Lee, born in Seoul, has been the director of Keramische Werkstatt Margaretenhohe GmbH, in Essen, Germany, since 1987. During the early 1970s,...

Jessica Brandl

2014- 2015 Artist in Residence, Ceramics Program

Jessica Brandl, a native Midwesterner, works in ceramics, drawing and painting.
Set in landscapes with looming architecture, turbulent skies, and...

Visiting Artist Workshop with Sanam Emami

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location:

Ceramics Studio

emami Presented By Ceramics Program

In cooperation with The Society of Arts and Crafts, Sanam Emami will join us for a visual presentation of her work on Tuesday, November 13th from 5pm - 6:30 pm. Emami will be in Boston in conjunction with the exhibition, Our Cups Runneth Over, at the Society of Arts and Crafts for which she...

2014 Jul 24

Visiting Artist Lecture with Amy Santoferraro

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Ceramics Studio

santo ferraro Presented By Ceramics Program

Amy Santoferraro, a ceramic and mixed-media sculptor, and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Kansas State University, will be working in residence at the Ceramics Program for two weeks during the month of July. Amy will lecture on her influences and work practice, which often...

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