Yonatan Hopp 3D Glaze Printing Workshop

This workshop will explore printing glazes on ceramic tiles and slabs using the clay 3D printer. Working digitally, participants will convert images into vector files that can be run by the printer and then attempt to print them in one and two colors on ceramic tiles and slabs. These will be fired in the studio for collection after the workshop is complete.
This experimental workshop will try out a new avenue of working with the clay printer, one that is of-yet undocumented. Results may vary in technical success, but will all undoubtedly be interesting, and will expand what we know can be done with these tools. In other words, we can’t guarantee the results, but it will be plenty interesting.
This workshop is for those who have some experience with 3D printing, preferably with the clay printer, and who have some experience working with clay and glaze.

Course Fees: $300 for Adult Community and Harvard Graduate students; $150 for Harvard Undergraduates. Your course fee will include clay for printing your objects, bisque, and glaze firing printed objects. This class does not come with studio lab access outside of printing for the class. 

Instructor Bio:

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. Yonatan was the 2024-25 Artist-in-Residence at the Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard, and a 2022 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in the category of Design and Architecture. He has exhibited his work in museums and galleries internationally, and holds a Masters degree from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and a Bachelors from the Rhode Island School of Design. Yonatan is currently an Associate Professor at the Industrial Design Department at RISD, and formerly an Associate Professor at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.