Summer Ceramics Courses @ Harvard

by | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorized

Enroll Now for Summer Courses!


 Summer 2010 Registration Forms are available on-line.

To participate in one or more of the many creative experiences presented this Summer term, and for any questions, please email Shawn Panepinto or call 617.495.8680. Summer Courses

Hand Built Forms and Structures
June 1 – July 20, Tuesdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm
8 weeks/8 sessions: Whether you’re interested in making utilitarian wares, sculptures, or tiles, hand building is limited only by your imagination. Techniques include coil building, slab construction, simple press molding, and various combinations. Anything is possible.
Instructor: Forrest Snyder

Mosaics
June 1 – 29, Tuesdays 1:00 – 4:00 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: Create mosaics with traditional Italian glass smalti. This course offers an in-depth experience of design, fabrication, and mounting of glass mosaics. Various public and private commissions will be highlighted.
Instructor: Lisa Houck

Handle This!
June 2 – 30, Wednesdays 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: Thrown and altered, or hand built, mugs, casseroles, pitches, and teapots are unique forms which all require special consideration when adding handles. Variations in forming, placing for function, and aesthetics will be explored in depth. The right tuck in a pot can make the prefect place for a handle.
Instructor: Delanie Wise

Exploring Clay
June 2 – 30, Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm OR
July 14 – Aug.11 Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: You are invited to learn the ways of the wheel and hand building. Various decorative surface techniques and glazing will be highlighted. This is a great opportunity to try clay, providing an excellent foundation for further exploration. For those who have previous experience, instruction will be tailored for them.
Instructor: Stephanie Young

Throw Bigger! Better! Taller!
June 7 – July 26, Mondays 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
8 weeks/8 sessions: First time throwers can gain foundation skills for throwing good solid pots. More advanced students will be instructed on special techniques to enlarge their throwing repertoire. All will enjoy making pots bigger! Better! Taller!
Instructor: Wayne Fuerst

It’s a Cover-Up
June 24 – Aug. 12, Thursdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm
8 weeks/8 sessions: The session focuses on making hand built, and thrown lidded forms that fit the pot’s function and aesthetics; ranging from simple jars to elaborate casseroles. Both experienced and new-to-clay students will be challenged to create a successful “cover-up”.
Instructor: Denny McLaughlin

Tile Murals: Design and Construction
July 5 – 28, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
4 weeks/8 sessions: Explore an exciting range of mathematical concepts integral to making tiles and murals. Participants will learn new techniques and design solutions while working, invaluable for art educators developing projects for art classes at all levels. Graduate credit eligible through Framingham State College.
Instructor: Wasma’a Chorbachi

Where did that come from?
July 7 – Aug. 4 (no class 7/28), Wednesdays 12:00 – 1:30 pm
4 sessions (no class 7/28): This informal class will feature weekly 90-minute slide presentations representing work by contemporary ceramic artists with an eye toward showing the progression and development of style. Occasional critiques will engage students and offer opportunities for open discussion.
Instructor: Shawn Panepinto

Ocarinas: Making Musical History
July 13 – Aug. 10, Tuesdays 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: These whistle-flute like instruments date back thousands of years, being important to both Chinese and Mesoamerican cultures. Artist and musician Kathi Tighe leads the construction of both single note and multiple note ocarinas. Special emphasis given to raku firing and instrument tuning after firing.
Instructor: Kathi Tighe

Printing on Clay
July 20 – Aug. 12, Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 – 4:00 pm
4 weeks/8 sessions: A variety of printing techniques will be explored as a means of personal expression. Techniques include mono-printing, silk screening, stenciling, creating water-slide decals, embossing, and relief printing from plaster slabs onto clay. Historic and contemporary examples will provide inspiration.
Instructor: Kathy King

Independent Study
8-week and 11-week sessions only: Self directed work, for those who have previously enrolled in a class at the Ceramics Program and are capable of processing their own work; includes access to opportunities to participate in firing workshops and attend lectures by visiting artists.

Firing Workshops

Wood Firing: Green Fire, Smokeless Wood Kiln with Kusakabe, Masakazu. July 9 – 13th.
Saggar Firing: Painting with Fire with Pao-Fei Yang. July 10, 24, 31, Aug. 1, 2.
Raku Firing: Playing with Fire with Kathi Tighe. July 12, 29.
Soda Firing: Spray the Glaze through the Flames with Crystal Ribich. TBA

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Call for Enteries – Gold Coast International Ceramic Award

by | Apr 17, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Closing date: 28 May 2010
Gold Coast City Art gallery Gold Coast
The Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award is an acquisitive art award and exhibition, open to all ceramic art forms. The competition is open to artists from all countries. Works chosen for the exhibition at Gold Coast City Art Gallery will be selected by the Judge from photographs or jpegs submitted with the entry.

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Call for entry: International Ceramics Competition L’Alcora

by | Apr 15, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday


Okay so google translate seems to be failing me a bit on this one but here’s the best i’ve got:

Alcora l’City Council presents 30 International Ceramics Competition. For this reason, it deserves to celebrate the event difficult to achieve the 3 decades of uninterrupted call, is called a box that delivers a total prize of 16,000 €.
Without doubt, the International Ceramics Competition l’Alcora has become a benchmark in its field worldwide, with an average attendance in the last 10 years more than 150 ceramists from 50 countries worldwide, figures which suggests the wide acceptance of this competition.

The deadline for the competition is the 30 of April and you can find out more here, but hopefully your spanish is better than mine and that of google : )

2011 Saidye Bronfman Award Nomination

by | Apr 11, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Deadline: June 1

The Saidye Bronfman Award is Canada’s foremost distinction for excellence in the fine crafts. “Fine Craft” is the term used to define an area of activity in the crafts that is frequently directed towards exhibition and/or sale in a gallery-like setting. This activity involves high levels of technical expertise as well as knowledge of the historical tradition and development of the craft. Through their work, fine crafts practitioners demonstrate new concepts and innovations that expand the boundaries of the medium and its techniques.

In addition, works by the recipient are acquired by the Canadian Museum of Civilization for its permanent collection. Nominees must be professional artists who have created an outstanding body of work, made a substantial contribution to the development of fine crafts in Canada and have been exhibited nationally and internationally. The Canada Council defines a professional artist as someone who has specialized training in the field (not necessarily in academic institutions), who is recognized as such by her or his peers (artists working in the same artistic tradition) and who has been a history of public presentation.

Follow this link to download a PDF of the 2011 GGVMA Nomination Form
For more information on this award visit: www.canadacouncil.ca