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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Procelain II – Register now!

by | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized

PORCELAIN II
October 22-24, 2010
San Diego, California
Hosted by Clay Artists of San Diego

Receive expert tips and techniques
Porcelain II features four highly talented women. These women of porcelain will help you conquer this beautiful but challenging ceramic material. They will share their tips and techniques that will take your work to the next level. Let yourself be inspired!

Mark Your Calendar and Register Today! Space Limited
 Featured Artist: Erin Furimsky, Kristen Kieffer,
Jennifer McCurdy and Lorna Meaden

For more information and to register, click on a link below:
Schedule of Events | Presenters | Host & Sponsors
Hotel and Venue Information
Travel & Directions | Visitor Information
Registration Information What you will learn:

  • Learn decoration techniques from stamp-making and stamping to slip-trailing and resists.
  • Altering and darting wheel-thrown forms.
  • Learn how to create pots that have a generous sense of volume and fluidity of line, with wheel-thrown and altered porcelain.
  • Altering pots on and off the wheel.
  • Slip inlay surface treatment.
  • The step-by-step instruction- from throwing to decorating- of making a porcelain watering can.
  • Discover the technique of dry-throwing porcelain.
  • Hand carving forms in the leather-hard stage.
  • Discuss the concept of strength vs plasticity in the porcelain as it moves through the working stages.

For all the details click here.

The Human Form in Clay

by | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized


Figurative Association:
The Human Form in Clay Symposium
October 27–30, 2010
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts With a focus on figurative ceramic sculpture, this 3-day Symposium provides exhibitions, dialogue, and exchange of technical and conceptual ideas among established and emerging artists, educators, students and collectors. The Symposium exhibitions, studios, auditorium, housing and dining facilities are in close proximity and provide an intimate setting for engaging dialogue. Limited to only 200 attendees.

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The Symposium will feature 8 international / nationally known ceramic and mixed media artists who will each present a series of demonstrations and topic related discussions. The 3-day Symposium begins on Wednesday evening, October 27 with two exhibition openings, followed by the Symposium opening introductions and keynote. The following three days include a variety of rotating technical demonstrations and presentations by the Artists/Presenters, two panel topical discussions, two lectures by guest speakers and a round table conversation. Topics and speakers will be announced. The featured main exhibitions include works by the Symposium Presenters and the Invited Emerging Artists Exhibition, which includes works by 10 emerging artists selected by the Symposium Presenters. Select works from the Arrowmont Permanent Collection will also be featured. Friday evening’s BBQ, live bluegrass & dancing under the stars provides a relaxing and fun event celebrating Smoky Mountain style food and music. A more detailed Symposium agenda listing specific information, speaker/demonstration topics and titles will be sent after registration confirmation. Please continue to view the Symposium website for updated information. A portion of Figurative Association: The Human Form in Clay has been underwritten by a bequest from the estate of Martha Harrison and through a grant from the Ayco Charitable Foundation.See the website here for all the details and registration information.

2010 Steven Hill Workshops

by | Mar 28, 2010 | Uncategorized


Steven Hill at Center Street Clay
Sign up online“ Electric vs. Gas Firing: What’s All The Fuss About Reduction, Anyway?”
May 12-16, July 21-25, Aug. 25-29, 2010“Journey Workshop”
April 17-25, 2010

“Dinnerware & Serving Pieces / Electric vs Gas Workshop”
June 12-19, 2010

Workshops at Other Venues

The Ceramic Shop, Philadelphia, PA
March 29-30 & April 3, 2010
Pre/post NCECA Workshop http://www.theceramicshop.com/store/product/3867/Steven-Hill-Workshop/
 Van Price Fine Art Studio, Prescott, AZ
May 22-23 or May 25-26, 2010 [email protected]
Bullseye Studio, Grand Junction, CO
May 28-31, 2010 [email protected]
Arrowmont School of Arts And Crafts,
Gattlinburg, TN
August 16-20, 2010 http://arrowmont.org/

Clay Demonstration/Workshop With Pete Pinnell

by | Mar 15, 2010 | Uncategorized


Saturday & Sunday, June 5 & 6 2010

9am- 5pm
$185 Member / $225 Non-member
Membership deadline discount is May 1, 2010
When Pinnell teaches a workshop, the point is not to entertain or impress those attending. Instead, the intent is to provide ideas, techniques, information and insight that will be useful to those attending, and that will empower them when they return to their own studios. Because of this, the attention to questions and concerns of those at the workshop and the focus of Pinnell’s presentation often shift in response the discussion. Pinnell has taught many workshops over the last 25 years, and no two have ever been exactly alike. To begin the workshop, Pinnell will throw, alter, assemble, and texture a small group of utilitarian pots, including a teapot, ewer and cup. He will also demonstrate a variety of techniques for making pottery parts, including handles, spouts, lids and feet. While at work, he will address the aesthetic underpinnings of utilitarian pottery and contemporary ceramics in general, and lead the audience in a discussion of these topics. Pinnell will begin the second day answering questions and lead discussions on clay bodies, and firing. Attendees are encouraged to bring questions and share their expertise for the benefit of others. It is always interesting to see examples of things that did not work, and to have the entire group troubleshoot the problem. We willl use a computer glaze program called Hyperglaze (projected for everyone to see) to analyze the glaze, so we can better understand what is causing the problem, and we will work together to try to generate a solution. The intent of this part of the workshop is both to find solutions and also for everyone to experience the process that we use to find solutions.
The Art Center1803 N. 7th Street | Grand Junction, CO 81501 | 970-243-7337 [email protected]