2024-25 Artists-In-Residence

The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard welcomes artists Ashton Keen and Yonatan Hopp to its Artist In Residence Program for the 2024-25 year. The 2024-25 Artist In Residence program runs from September 2024 through August 2025.

A teapot in soft tan tones; a group of three-legged stools with triangular ceramic seats glazed in multiple colors
Ewer by Ashton Keen, 2024. Red Clay, Cone 3 Soda fired, Helmar sig, 8 x 6 x 6 inch; Stools by Yonatan Hopp, 2023. Ram pressed clay, wood.

 

a person holding a mug. They are smiling, wearing overalls, and standing in front of a brick wall.

Ashton Keen

Ashton Keen received her BFA from the University of Mississippi. Following graduation, she went on to become an intern at STARworks Center for Creative Enterprise. Most recently, she completed an MFA from Utah State University. Her work has been displayed in several national exhibitions and has received various awards, as well as being selected as one of Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artists 2024. This summer she’ll be attending a residency at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park where she’ll focus on pouring pots and atmospheric firing. On Instagram: @ashton_keen7

 

 

 

A person pouring casting slip from a plaster mold.

Yonatan Hopp

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. Yonatan has exhibited internationally and holds degrees from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (MDes, 2013, Industrial Design) and the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, 2001, Industrial Design). From 2018-2023 he was an associate Professor at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Website: yonatanhopp.com; On Instagram: @johnathanhopp