Course Description: Find your creative voice with slab building. This class will demonstrate a combination of slab construction, surface decoration, and an exploration of form. Techniques will focus on both hard and soft slab construction to create mugs, planters, plates and trays, boxes, and anything your heart desires. Surface techniques will include the use of slips, carving, sgraffito, inlay, handmade stamps, and found
Dates: May 29 - August 7 (11 classes) Day/Time: Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm via Zoom Level: Intermediate - Advanced Instructor: Anne Eder
Course Description: Are you someone who enjoys combining art and science? If so, this course may be for you. Photography on clay is still an area of discovery, and in previous sessions, we barely scratched the surface of understanding the physical and chemical web and the fascinating intersections of organic and inorganic crossover of these two mediums. While it is not essential to come to this with a photographic background, some knowledge of the medium or a willingness to learn about it will be helpful. The materials list can be built on an individual basis around your interests, or you can gather a basic kit - see the materials list for information. Be part of the exciting and synergistic dialogue between photographers and ceramic artists and contribute to making new discoveries in real time!
Dates: May 28 - August 9 (11 weeks) - WAITLISTED Days/Time: N/A Level:Advanced Supervisors: Kathy King
Course Description: Studio access for self-directed work. Independent Studio is open to those who have previously enrolled in classes for at leasttwoIntermediate-Advanced classes at the Ceramics Program, have completed studioorientationor kiln certification orientation,and can process their work independently.Independent use of electric kilnsis available to those who have passed the electric kiln test andbeen kiln certified, which is no longer a requirement for Independent Studio. Limited spaces available. ... Read more about Independent Studio
Dates: June 3 - August 5 (10 classes | 10 weeks) Day/Time: Mondays, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Level: Intermediate - Advanced Instructor: Steve Murphy
Course Description:Focusing on the wheel, this class for Intermediate to Advanced potters will explore size, form, refinement, trimming for perfect feet, and surface texture and color. Starting with bowls, we will work away from the cylinder as a starting point. Making a pleasing curve and trimming beautiful and complementary feet will be goals. Other lessons include vessels made from multiple parts – from teapots to perforated moon jar-style vases. Demos usually run between 25 and 30 minutes, leaving you plenty of time to make work. Students are encouraged to make requests.
Course Description: Demonstrations, individual critiques, and lots of hands-on time will engage students in learning the basics of wheel throwing, hand building, and surface decoration. Creative approaches to altered and combined elements will provide challenges for more experienced students.
Course Description: Demonstrations, individual critiques, and lots of hands-on time will engage students in learning the basics of wheel throwing, hand building, and surface decoration. Creative approaches to altered and combined elements will provide challenges for more experienced students.
Course Description: Basics and Challenges will cover many ways of making beautiful pots. From slab building plates and platters, pinching small bowls, hand building small animals to throwing mugs and bowls on the wheel - we cover it all. Class will start at 6:30 with a 30-minute lesson starting at 7. Small sketchbooks are required to take notes and record your glazing work.... Read more about Basics and Challenges with Steve Murphy
Saturday and Sunday June 15-16, 2024 10am-5pm each day Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to study directly with an internationally recognized maker of narrative ceramic sculpture. In this two-day workshop, participants will explore narrative figure sculpture with renowned ceramic artist Kensuke Yamada. Using coil building and other handbuilding techniques, participants will construct figurative sculptures in stoneware clay. Through demonstrations and individual critiques, Yamada will share his process of imbuing ceramic figures with nuanced narratives that comment on the human experience. Students will learn techniques for sculpting realistic yet poetic details and surfaces that enhance emotional resonance. The workshop will focus on capturing fleeting moments and subtle interactions to provoke reflection in viewers.... Read more about Kensuke Yamada Visiting Artist Workshop
This lecture is full/waitlisted and registration is now closed.
Yonatan Hopp is an industrial designer who works predominantly in ceramics, with a hands-on research-through-making approach. His practice brings together methods and modes of work from industrial design, digital fabrication and craft to investigate new possibilities for production of objects. His research explores how the combination of these methodologies may generate original object languages, free of appropriated traditions, archetypical forms or paraphrased signs. A 2022 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in the category of Design and Architecture, Yonatan has exhibited his work in venues such as the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), the Gardiner Museum (Toronto), the Museum of Art and Design (NYC) and the Yingge Museum (Taipei). ... Read more about Yonatan Hopp Artist Lecture
In this workshop, undergraduates will refine their skills and receive individuated guidance oriented around personal goals.
This workshop is for students who are comfortable working on their own. Sign up if you have taken a beginner course in wheel throwing at a Harvard House, the Ceramics Program or another studio.
Location: Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard and on Zoom
This lunchtime lecture is free, but registration is required.
Join Ceramics Program Instructor Jenny Peace and her coil building class for a lunchtime slideshow describing the two-week onggi workshop she attended in Icheon, South Korea. She will offer an overview of the large-scale coiling method she learned from onggi master Kwak Kyungtae, and share contact information with anyone who might be interested in traveling to Korea to learn about onggi first hand.
During a training session in Amherst in 1980, Moshe Feldenkrais put a question to the students in his course, he asked them, what is the definition of health?
This short course presents students with a series of Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons within The Feldenkrais Method™. This repertoire of kinesthetic study will provide students a way to...
Expressive Flamenco is a holistic, embodied, and therapeutic practice that combines the rhythms and movements of flamenco dance with multiple arts-based elements including free writing, creative movement, storytelling, and drawings for self-expression. The practice offers ways to build connection with oneself and others in order...
Friday, March 29, 2024
Meets four Fridays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
