Martha Grover Visiting Artist Workshop

Discover the idiosyncrasies of working with porcelain on and off the wheel as Martha Grover demonstrates how to make her signature undulating functional forms. Martha will share her special throwing and altering techniques that exploit this elegant and sensuous material’s best qualities. Working with a variety of bottomless wheel-thrown forms and slabs in both the soft and leather-hard stages, Martha will demonstrate various altering techniques and additions of slabs, handles, and spouts to create an assortment of functional forms. Forms will include cups, bowls, vases, pitchers, lidded forms, and baskets. Martha will also talk about her sources of inspiration, philosophy of making, and studio practices.

Participants will have the chance to alter a pre-thrown, cylindrical form and attach a spout and handle to make a pouring vessel. Those not enrolled in an in-person course at the Ceramics Program for the Spring semester may have pieces created during the workshop bisque fired by the Ceramics Program for a cost of 4 cents per cubic inch. Participants will be notified when they may pick up their fired work.

Cost: Free for Harvard College Undergraduates, $250 for Adult Community and Harvard Graduate students.

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Registration for this workshop will open on November 15, 2023 at 2:00pm

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Artist Bio

Martha Grover is a functional potter, living in Bethel Maine, creating thrown and altered porcelain pieces. She attended Bennington College, where she received her undergraduate degree in Architecture. After a fifth year in ceramics at Syracuse University, Martha went on to receive her MFA in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. After graduate school, she was awarded multiple residencies and fellowships including the Fogelberg Fellowship at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Sage Scholarship and Taunt Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation , and a yearlong residency at Red Lodge Clay Center. Her work can be found at many galleries across the country. Her work has been published in Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, Pottery Making Illustrated, 500 Pitchers, 500 Platters and Chargers, and 500 Vases. It was the cover feature of Ceramic Monthly’s May 2010 issue.