Presented by Ceramics Program

Location: Ceramics Studio, 219 Western Ave, Allston
On Sale Date: Null
How to get tickets: Please see details below for reservations
Tuesday 4/26 10:00 AM Ticket Prices:
Performance Detail: Fees: FREE for Harvard Students and studio participants, $125 for all others

To register, email completed registration form to [email protected] and send check and/or registration to 219 Western Ave. Allston, MA 02134

Kevin Snipes will offer a 1-day workshop, April 26, 2011, 10 – 4 pm with a 6 pm Visual Presentation

Fees: FREE for Harvard Students and studio participants, $125 for all others

To register, email completed registration form to [email protected] and send check and/or registration to 219 Western Ave. Allston, MA 02134

Registration form: http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/courses/reg.php

Preceding his solo exhibition at Society of Arts and Crafts on Friday, April 29th, Snipes will demonstrate his construction methods: combining both hand built and thrown and altered forms in porcelain. His narrative based ceramic vessels present imagery with social relevance, using mishima, sgraffito and slip decoration techniques to produce intricate, layered surfaces.

Snipes’ artwork is a combination of atypical pottery forms and quirky figurative drawings. His pieces are influenced by an array of traditional and nontraditional art forms, including street art, architecture, contemporary painting, the avid love of art history and even children’s drawings. His work has an underlying sophistication, which is based in existentialist thought.

Bio: Kevin Snipes was born in Philadelphia, but grew up mostly in Cleveland. He holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and did MFA work at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida. From there he participated in several artist residency programs, including the Clay Studio, in Philadelphia and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, in New Castle, Maine he was also a visiting artist at Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge. Kevin was the recipient of the Taunt Fellowship from the Archie Bray Foundation in 2008, in Helena, Montana and was recently awarded a 2010 McKnight Residency Fellowship through the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he currently resides. Kevin combines his love of making unconventional pottery with an obsessive need to draw on everything that he produces, creating a uniquely dynamic body of work.

About the SAC Show:
Childhood Lost: Current work by Kevin Snipes
April 29 – July 23, 2011
reception on Friday, April 29th 6-8pm

The Society of Arts and Crafts
175 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 266-1810 tel
www.societyofcrafts.org