Academic Collaborations

Academic Collaborations

a student paints slip on a raw clay bowl

The Ceramics Program opens its doors to faculty and students from Harvard University departments to provide an interactive lab environment and resource for the history, chemistry, and technology of clay. 

If you are interested in arranging a collaborative project between your course and the Ceramics Program, contact Director Kathy King or phone 617-496-4751.

Learn about our recent Academic Collaborations

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Students take in an explanation of the clay material by Kathy King

Art, Film and Visual Studies (AFVS)

AFVS 32K - Sculpture 1: Material Making

Wilma Baca Tosa assists a student making a pinch pot.

Harvard Anthropology

GENED 1105 - Can We Know Our Past?

a student holds up two tiles they have decorated

Department of the Classics

FYSEMR 68H: Examine Everything: Socrates and the Liberal Arts

Forrest Sincoff Gard explains slip casting into plaster molds to a group of students

Harvard Graduate School of Design

SCI-6317 - Digital Material Systems: Ceramics

a person paints colors of china paint on a white tile

Metals, Minerals, and the Life Cycle

Symposium - Making and Unmaking Value II: Transformations Through Space

a person's hands burnishing a clay plate with a black on red carved design

Harvard Art Museums

Materials Lab workshop: Ancient Graphite-Decorated Pottery

hands working a decoration onto a red clay bowl, on a table strewn with diagrams of historic forms

Harvard History Department

History 1056 - The New Science of the Human Past: Case Studies in the Cutting Edge

two people lifting a kiln cylinder and a third using tongs to pluck red-hot pots out of it during an outdoor raku firing

Harvard Art Museums - SITSA

Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art

a student works on a red clay oil lamp

History of Art and Architecture

FRSEMR 64I - Looking for Clues: Ancient and Medieval Art

Two people demonstrate wheel throwing before a group of people sitting in a semi-circle

History of Art and Architecture

FYSEMR 65R - Tea In Japan/America