Registration
Spring Term 2010
13-week term: February 1 – May 1, 2010
The studio is open on all holidays.
Registration
The full-term tuition and lab fees cover course enrollment, independent study,
materials and firing,
access to the studio seven days and evenings a week, participation in visiting
artist presentations, special firing workshops, and the Spring Show and Sale.
Information
Registration is on first-come, first-served basis from December 9, 2009 to
January 31, 2010.
No refunds after your first class.
The Mima Weissmann Memorial Fund for the Study of Ceramic Arts awards
enrollment fee payments for a year of study at the Ceramics Program. June 30,
2010 is the application deadline for Fall 2010 – Summer 2011. Forms are
available on our web site and by e-mail or telephone request.
Fees
Note: Special introductory fee for general public
Harvard
first-time enrollments.
Harvard
Employees
General public
Reg
$295
$40
$65
$40
$0
$280
$280
$125
$125
$125
$335
$335
$335
$295
$295
$295
$795
$795
$795
$675
$675
$125
$125
$335
$335
$295
$295
$795
$795
$125
$335
$295
$795
$675
$675
$675
Off (and On) the Wall, Tuesdays, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Contemporary Teapots, Wednesdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
$125
$125
$335
$335
$295
$295
$795
$795
$675
$675
Independent Study
$125
$335
$295
$795
NA
$65
$190
$150
$420
$360
$65
$190
$150
$420
$360
$65
$190
$150
$330
$330
$65
$190
$150
$420
$360
$65
$140
$100
$400
$340
*Lab Fee: full term classes (others below)
**Course Fee: full term (others below)
Tuition for 2nd course
(except Mosaics: add $100
lab fee)
LS General
$295
$295
$0
$500
1st
time
$250
$425
Students
$60
$65
*** course credit & PDP options
Totals: full-term Lab & Course Fees (application fee not
included)
Beginning-Intermediate
Basics and Challenges, Mondays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Basics and Challenges, Tuesdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Basics and Challenges, Thursdays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Beginning-Advanced
Mixed Media Sculpture, Mondays, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Clay and the Figure, Mondays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
The Uses of Imperfection, Wednesdays, 9:30 am –
12:30 pm
$675
Intermediate-Advanced
Mini Courses: Lab & Course Fee Totals
Basic Vessels, Fridays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm (6
sessions)
Vases and Bottles, Fridays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm (6
sessions)
Ceramic Materials, Mondays, Tuesdays or Saturdays,
(6 sessions)
Glazes, Underglazes, Mondays, 1 – 4 pm
Mosaics, Sundays, 10 am – 1 pm
*
(6 sessions)
(6 sessions)
The lab fee is required for all who make and process work at the studio. It is not
required for those who only attend class lectures, demonstrations. The lab fee covers
access to the studio seven days a week and a generous amount of materials and firing.
All students have the opportunity to learn about firing both electric and gas kilns, and
all are expected to help load and unload class firings.
**
The course fee covers the cost of class instruction and admission to some visiting
artist presentations. Students who choose not to make or process work at the studio, may
register for a course by paying the course and application fees only.
***
The Ceramics Program is a PDP provider for the Dept. of Education. Course credits are
offered through Cooperating Institution Programs. Contact Forrest Snyder at
fsnyder@fas.harvard.edu for details.
**** Ceramic Materials course is free for staff and Independent Study students. For those not
enrolled in another studio course, the tuition fee covers the firing of test tiles only.
Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at
Harvard
Registration
Spring Term 2010
13-week term: February 1 – May 1, 2010
Courses
Beginning Intermediate
Basics and Challenges, The construction, refinement, and glazing of wheel-thrown
and hand-built forms
will provide beginners with a strong foundation. Creative approaches to altered and
combined elements will provide challenges for experienced students.
Monday evenings 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Tuesday evenings 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Thursday evenings 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Beginning Advanced
Instructor: Wayne Fuerst
Instructor: Lucy Scanlon
Instructor: Denny McLaughlin
Monday mornings 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Instructor: Jay Bordage
Mixed Media Sculpture Using multiple materials in a single piece allows for dynamic
visual conversations. Students will work with concrete, paper pulp, plaster, and
contemporary sculpting polymers. Additionally, strategies for successfully
incorporating other media such as glass, metal, wood, and fired ceramics will be
addressed.
Monday evenings 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Instructor: Allison Newsome
Clay and the Figure Working from a model and from the imagination, students will
create small to life-sized sculptures and reliefs using hollow-form and slab
construction techniques. A variety of surface treatment methods will include the
application of stains and slips at all stages of the making process.
Wednesday mornings 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Instructor: Trish Adams
The Uses of Imperfection The creative and intentional use of accidental
imperfections will enhance the construction, composition, and glazing of wheelthrown and hand-built forms. Beginners will develop a strong foundation for
creating functional and sculptural vessels. Experienced students will be engaged
in creative approaches to altering forms and combining sectional elements.
Intermediate Advanced
Tuesday mornings 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Instructor: Forrest Snyder
Off (and On) the Wall Let’s take a crack at making work that grows out of the wall
or jumps off the floor. This course is for everyone, thrower, hand builder, or slip
caster, who likes to think off the wall and outside the box. Beginning with a
narrative wall work, progressing through a floor piece, the course will largely be
driven by student-initiated projects. The mechanics of hanging, connecting, and
anchoring will be explored.
Wednesday evenings 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Instructor: Shawn Panepinto
The Contemporary Teapot Knows No Bounds Through slide presentations, surface
treatment, hand-building, wheel-throwing, and altering forms, this class will
prepare you to take on the challenges of designing and integrating parts: lid,
spout, handle and body, in an effort to push limits and transform the teapot from
functional vessel to sculptural object.
Independent Study Self-directed
work for those previously enrolled in a class at the Ceramics Program
and capable of processing their own work. Includes studio access, participation in
firing and visiting artist workshops.
Mini Courses
6 sessions
6 sessions
Friday evenings 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Instructor: Stephanie Young
Introduction to basic wheel and hand-construction processes.
Basic Vessels
February 5, 12, 19, 26, March 5, 12
Vases and Bottles
March 26, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
6 sessions
Ceramic Materials Part I
Instructors: Kathy King, Meng Zhao
Monday afternoons 1 – 4 pm
February 1, 8, 15, 22, March 1, 8
or
Saturday mornings, 10am – 1 pm
March 20, 27, April 10, 17, 24, May
1 (no class April 3)
This mini-course will concentrate on understanding the chemistry behind ceramic
materials including both clay bodies and glaze materials.
We will investigate the
clay body as “canvas” and then study the aesthetic applications of glaze formulas
as well as the individual materials that comprise each recipe.
6 sessions
Glazes, Underglazes, Overglazes, and Lustres
Instructor: Wasma'a Chorbachi
Monday afternoons 1 – 4 pm
March 22, 29, April 5. 12, 19, 26
Learn to master a range of glaze application techniques and tools to create even
coatings, overlaps, and special effects with glazes, underglazes, overglazes, and
lustres. A focus on developing brush application skills will expand students’ color
range and design possibilities.
6 sessions
Mosaics
Instructor: Lisa Houck
Sundays 11 am – 2 pm
March 28, April 4, 11, 18, 25, May
2
This course will provide an in-depth experience with mosaic design, fabrication,
and mounting practices. The instructor will share her experiences with large public
and private art commissions for tile and mosaic projects.
6 sessions
Ceramic Materials Part II
Instructor: Kathy King
Tuesday evenings, 6:30 –9:30
March 23, 30, April 6, 13, 20, 27
This course, a continuation of “Ceramic Materials Part I”, allows students to
utilize their knowledge of glaze chemistry though the research and development of
their own body of glazes.
This personalized approach will ask each student to
consider their preferred clay bodies, techniques and firing methods in order to
build a repertoire of glazes that best fits their approach to clay.
Weekend workshops
See website for details.
Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at
Harvard
Registration
Spring Term 2010
Instructors
13-week term: February 1 – May 1, 2010
Shawn Panepinto
Forrest Snyder
Kathy King
Program
Assistant
Coordinator
Education
Assistant Program
Coordinator
Ji-Eun Kim
Staff
Coordinator
Trish Adams
BA New England Conservatory of Music; former instructor at the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston and Middlesex School. Her large-scale sculptures and functional
vessels explore the forceful movement of the wheel. Her animal sculptures capture the
power of stillness.
Jay Bordage
MFA, Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Jay merges media and
uses sculpture, photography, video, and performance to focus on the body. He has been
teaching, exhibiting, and curating for over 10 years.
Wasma'a Chorbachi
PhD in Art History, Harvard University. Chorbachi’s extensive research and writing on
Islamic design and her cultural experience are vital resources for her paintings,
plates, tiles, and murals. Her work is in many museum collections including the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts. http://www.wasmaa.com
Wayne Fuerst
Studio potter; gallery owner; instructor. His fresh and spontaneous approach to altering
forms and glaze painting creates lively sets of wheel thrown functional pots. His
expertise in a wide range of firing techniques includes a focus on wood–firing.
http://www.stickstonestars.com
Lisa Houck
MFA Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lisa is interested in
creating a world of color and pattern, with compositions that are complex enough to
suggest something new each time you view the artwork. Clay and mosaics are her media for
public art projects. http://www.lisahouck.com
Kathy King
MFA, University of Florida, former Associate Professor at Georgia State University. Her
narrative vessels, tiled furniture and printmaking, either presented individually or
combined in installation, present narratives from a feminist point of view.
http://www.kathykingart.com/
Denny McLaughlin
MA, Kansas State University. Denny spent twenty years working as a studio potter in
southwestern Minnesota, often using the local clays and minerals to make his vessels.
His interest in a variety of folk traditions continues to influence his stoneware forms
and surfaces. http://www.birchcouleepottery.com
Allison Newsome
MFA Rhode Island School of Design; recent artist in residence at Beatrice Wood Center
for the Arts, Ojai, California. Through her work, Allison explores fundamental,
utilitarian methods implemented on our land and water.
www.beatricewood.com/allisonnewsome
Shawn Panepinto
Ridgewood College of Art Diploma; School of the Museum of Fine Arts Diploma. Shawn’s
sculptural and functional work is the direct result of her observations and reactions
and typically shows her background in painting, sculpture, and graphic design while
revealing her unique sense of humor.
Lucy Scanlon
BA in Geology in Harvard College; MFA in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design;
previous instructor of ceramics at Rhode Island School of Design. Lucy makes hand built
and wheel thrown functional pottery, often incorporating animal and water motifs.
http://www.lucywscanlon.com/
Forrest Snyder
MFA, Alfred University, NY. Forrest’s interests include history, technology,
architecture, sculpture, mixed media and all those places of intersection. He is the
founder and editor of the online journal Critical Ceramics:
http://www.criticalceramics.org. http://www.forrestsnyder.com
Stephanie Young
BFA in Sculpture, Art Institute of Boston; Instructor at Wheelock College. Stephanie
creates functional vessels and sculpture with a wide range of carving, modeling, wheel
throwing and firing methods:www.superfishy.com
Meng Zhao
National Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou China. Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for
Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Gold Medal at the International Ceramic Art
Competition in Faenza, Italy. The complex modeling and unusual surface treatments of
Meng Zhao’s sculpture is suggestive of scholar rocks.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ceramics/instructors/meng.html