#  Yeonsoo Kim Visiting Artist Workshop 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2024 

 

 

 

   ![an illustrated ceramic pot by Yeonsoo Kim](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/makeart/files/yeonsoo_kim_400x400.png?itok=qmlNNW_T) 

 

 **WAITLISTED  
Saturday, February 3, 2024**  
**10am-5pm with 1 hour lunch break**

 Join us for a day with Yeonsoo Kim as he demonstrates his use of traditional methods of making with contemporary surface. Kim utilizes the Onggi technique, a method unique in the world for slab, coil building large pots and forms. Traditionally born out of necessity in Korea, Onggi pots were and still are used today for food fermentation and storage. What makes Kim’s work so unique is his approach to surface. Using slip and sgraffito techniques on clay, he invites us to a world that combines humans, nature, and space. These works, when amassed, act as a type of diary or a visual record of listening to his inner voice. His works explore identity and psychological conditions through the processes of making and daily life.

 Participants in the workshop will be able to try their hand at the surface techniques demonstrated on a pre-made tile.

 **Cost: $125 for Adult Community; $100 for Harvard Graduate students; $25 for Harvard College Undergraduates.**

 [**Please review our cancellation/refund policy.**](/ceramics/registration-policies)

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

 [Login and Register](https://ofadap.fas.harvard.edu/ords/ofa/r/office-for-the-arts/class-detail-link?cd=6A2F3BAE78A49935)

##  Artist Biography  


 Yeonsoo Kim was born in Haenam, South Korea. He recently completed a long-term residency artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. Kim earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics at Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia in Athens, GA. He achieved his Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics and glass from the Hongik University located in Seoul. Kim has held apprenticeships with Onggi masters in Jeolla-do(Hayngjong-Oh) and Gyeongsang-do(Jinkyu Huh) in Korea. He has participated in several artist residency programs, including the Baltimore Clayworks, Korea Ceramic Foundation, Montana State University, Morean Center for Clay and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Kim has won multiple awards; His most recent recognition is being from the National Council on Education the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) for, which granted him one of the top six Emerging Artist for the Year 2020 Award.

 ![Artist Yeonsoo Kim with his ceramic vessels](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/makeart/files/yeonsoo_kim-2.png)