Semester:
Offered:
Date: Saturday, July 15th WAITLISTED
Time: 9 am - 4 pm
Location: Ceramics Program
Registration for this workshop will open on April 26 to anyone age 18+
Interested in adding printed graphics to your ceramic work? Harvard instructor, Tom Hubbard and Providence-based artist, David Allyn will lead you through a variety of techniques to apply printed imagery to both greenware and bisque. Direct and offset screen-printing techniques, underglaze transfers, mono-printing and printed decals will be discussed and demonstrated in this 6-hour workshop. Image and screen preparation as well as underglazes and slips will be covered. These surface techniques are applicable to both functional and sculptural works and a range of firing methods including electric, gas and soda. Students will have the opportunity to try several of these techniques on clay tiles provided by the studio on Saturday afternoon. Tools will be provided for all students.
Materials:
• Apron
• Sketchbook
• 1 4" - 6" bisque cup or mug to print on.
Artist Biographies:
Tom Hubbard
Working primarily in ceramics, Tom Hubbard is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice also includes mixed media works and installations of public art. Informed by his design background, inspired by a somewhat nomadic lifestyle, and tempered by a minimalist approach, his work often explores loss, history and his response to place. Hubbard’s recent work reinterprets industrial forms as elegant, refined and ambiguous objects. Recently, he was named a McKnight Ceramic Resident Artist at the Northern Clay Center and selected for the Juried National exhibition at Red Lodge Clay Center. His work has been exhibited widely in both the US and The Netherlands and is included in several private and corporate collections including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and recognized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Hubbard’s work has been published in Ceramics Monthly and Ceramics: Art & Perception. Tom Hubbard was born in San Francisco, CA and received a BFA from Indiana University. Hubbard grew up in the midwest and lived in Maine, The Netherlands, Ohio and Georgia before moving to Massachusetts in 2018. He currently lives in a pre-revolution era house in southern Massachusetts with his wife and a rescue dog from the South.
David Allyn
David Allyn is an artist whose work is an investigation into the evolution of urban space and culture at the intersection of ceramics and printmaking. His process begins with selecting architectural sites and documenting the locations with photographs as a way to create one of a kind porcelain objects that offer a fresh vision of our contemporary age. Allyn utilizes various silkscreen-printing methods to produce ceramic work that is layered with color and imagery as a method of document and commentary about the urban landscape. Allyn received his MFA from RISD and attended undergraduate studies in Wisconsin, the state of his origin. Upon completion of his graduate studies in 2003, Allyn founded the community ceramics program at The Steel Yard, an arts education non-profit based in Providence, RI now in its 19th year. Allyn has been awarded a McKnight Fellowship and been chosen as a Rhode Island State Council of The Arts Fellow. He has work in several museum permanent collections, including Newport Art Museum, Museum of Art, at Rhode Island School of Design. Allyn currently maintains a full time studio practice at Nicholson File Studios in Providence Rhode Island.
Workshop Fee: $150.00 for Adult Community and Harvard Graduate students; FREE for Harvard Undergraduates
***Those enrolled in Summer 2023 classes will receive a 25% discount code prior to registration!***
