Semester:
Offered:
Saturday, September 23, 2023
10:00am to 1:00pm
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Registration will open on September 5 for all user types
Drawing from an ongoing collaborative practice with 2022-23 Ceramics Program Artist In Residence Nicolas Touron, Amy Lemaire sculpts borosilicate glass which is combined with Touron’s 3D printed porcelain forms. This workshop will focus on the glassmaker’s perspective in the collaboration and the logistics of combining glass and clay together in sculptural practice. Using a table mounted torch, Lemaire will sculpt hollow glass forms using a process called flameworking. Viewers will leave with a greater understanding of how glass can be manipulated in relation to ceramics, and lots of tips and tricks for successfully combining glass and clay together. Nicolas Touron will also give a brief overview of the 3D printing process. Find Touron and Lemaire's collaborative sculptures on display in their exhibition Nature 2.0 in the Ceramics Program's gallery.
Cost: $50 for all user types.
A limited number of scholarships are available. We invite BIPOC, LGBTQIA and self-identified, marginalized people (disability, class, etc.) to apply. Scholarship applications will be reviewed up to one week prior to the workshop date. Apply for a scholarship using this form.
Registration will open on Tuesday, September 5 at 10am
Please review our cancellation/refund policy.
Related event:
Friday, September 22 from 5:00-7:00pm, join us for a gallery reception for Nature 2.0, an exhibition of work by Amy Lemaire and 2022-23 Ceramics Program Artist In Residence Nicolas Touron, on display September 18 - November 21 in Gallery 224.
Amy Lemaire Artist Bio:
Amy Lemaire is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Lemaire
works with glass, photography and digital fabrication to create an array of tools, images,
objects and situations that consider the role of technology as an accelerant in a multiplicity
of narratives that weave together virtual and physical worlds. Lemaire studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA) and Pratt Institute (MFA). She has taught at institutions nationally, including the Penland School of Crafts (NC), Pilchuck Glass School (WA), & UrbanGlass (NY) and worked with over a dozen Universities including Alfred (NY), RIT (NY), NYU (NY), University of Montana-Dillon, College for Creative Studies (MI), Bowling Green State University (OH) & Tyler University (PA) as a visiting artist, lecturer or critic. She currently teaches at Salem Community College (NJ) in the Scientific Glass Technology program. Lemaire is a collaborator and a co-facilitator of the Flame Affinity Group, through the Glass Education Exchange (GEEX.glass). Lemaire was selected by the Center for Craft to receive the inaugural Teaching Artist Grant in 2023. Residencies include University of the Arts, Tyler School of Art, UrbanGlass and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She was the recipient of a Visionary Scholarship from the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass in support of her 2015 fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts (NJ). Her essay, "Flame Grows Up" was published in Glass Quarterly magazine in the Summer 2018 issue. She delivered a commissioned lecture, "Flameworking in the Context of Contemporary Art" at the 2018 International Flameworking Conference at Salem Community College, and was the Keynote speaker at the 2022 International Society of Glass Beadmakers conference. Lemaire’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Delaware Contemporary (DE), Heller Gallery (NY), Traver Gallery (WA), and Helena Anrather (NY) . Her work "Pollen Flow" won the Acquisition Prize at Mad About Jewelry 2021 and is now included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design in NYC. "Second Nature", an exhibition of collaborative works by Amy Lemaire and Nicolas Touron was shown at SARAHCROWN in New York City in 2022-23. Their collaborative works are collected internationally, and include the Ringling Museum in Florida.
