2020 Oct 07
Animals: A Mission Brief
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
Using the military's "five-paragraph order" format, Mackin will provide the listener with the essential information needed to carry out and understand the mission of writing a war story. "Animals," is a collection of short stories based on his experiences as a special operations soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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2020 Oct 03
Visit an Artist and Demonstration: Kent McLaughlin
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ceramics Program—Online
During this visit we travel to the mountains of North Carolina to visit potter and educator Kent McLaughlin. During this two-hour studio visit and demonstation, Kent will focus on thrown and altered stacked forms. Kent McLaughlin and his wife Suze Lindsay work out of their studio Fork Mountain pottery, featuring salt and reduction kilns.
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2020 Oct 01
On Account of Sex (1920)
4:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
The passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 did not "give" women the vote. Rather, it established a negative: that the right to vote could not be abridged on account of sex alone. This session brings together diverse participants who will each illuminate one facet of women’s political history at this key transitional moment. Together, participants will emphasize the radical achievement of the amendment, exploring the full implications of what it meant to remove sex as a barrier to voting, which resulted in the largest-ever one-time expansion of the electorate and mobilized a...
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2020 Sep 25
Visit an Artist and Demonstration - Lorna Meaden
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Let's travel to beautiful Durango, Colorado to visit full-time studio potter Lorna Meaden. During this two-hour studio visit and demonstation, Lorna will focus on thrown forms such as beautiful pouring vessels and the more unexpected forms like juicers! Lorna will discuss her surface techniques of incising and embedding color to enhance her forms that are then fired in a wood/soda kiln.
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2020 Aug 15
Visit an Artist and Demonstration - Christina Erives
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
This week, we visit the studio of sculptor Christina Erives! Christina believes that ceramics as material has permanence, it is one of the ways we were able to learn about ancient...
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2020 Aug 14
Visit an Artist - Salvador Jiménez-Flores
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a discussion about their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
This week we travel to Chicago to visit former Harvard Ceramics Program Artist-in-Residence (2015-2017) Salvador Jiménez-Flores. We are looking forward to catching up with...
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2020 Aug 09
Visit an Artist and Demonstration: Dennis McLaughlin
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ceramics Program—Online
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
You are going to flip your lid during this very special 2-hour event with Denny McLaughlin at the Harvard Ceramics Program in Allston, MA. Denny, being one of the few staff who have access to our facility due to COVID-19, will be working in our studio...
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2020 Aug 07
Visit an Artist and Demonstration - Paul Andrew Wandless
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
We are thrilled to travel to Chicago to visit multi-media artist, author and educator Paul Andrew Wandless. Our discussion will be around materiality and the...
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2020 Aug 01
Visit an Artist Surface Special with Suze Lindsay
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
We had a wonderful visit with Suze Lindsay in Session 1 and many of you reached out for a second visit to focus on surface! Once again, we travel to the beautiful mountains of North Carolina to visit the one and only ...
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2020 Jul 31
Visit an Artist - Linda Lopez
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
This week we will visit the studio of prolific sculptor and Assistant Professor of Art, Ceramics and Foundations at University of Arkansas Linda Lopez!
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2020 Jul 24
Visit an Artist and Demonstration - Nicki Green
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.
During this 2-hour event, we will travel to San Francisco to the studio of Nicki Green. Nicki will be featured soon at...
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2019 Oct 28
Visiting Artist Lecture: Amy Mackle
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, for a visiting artist lecture by Amy Mackle. Amy Mackle is an Irish ceramic maker who creates predominantly large scale installations using coloured porcelains, earthenware clays and found materials. Her work is inspired by her sense of place, the landscape and the relationship between the natural and the manufactured in our environment.
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2019 Oct 22
Visiting Artist Lecture: Deighton Abrams
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, for a visiting artist lecture by Deighton Abrams. Deighton is a ceramic sculptor, and educator. He has taught at numerous institutions including Clemson University and Winthrop University. He has shown work both nationally and internationally including the ISCAEE member Exhibition in Yixing, China and ArtFields 2017 in Lake City, South Carolina where he won a Merit Award for sculpture.
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2019 Oct 17
Visiting Artist Lecture: Kelcy Chase Folsom
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard for a visiting artist lecture delivered by Kelcy Chase Folsom. Kelcy Chase Folsom received his MFA in Ceramics from University of Colorado Boulder and his BFA from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been a resident artist at numerous residencies including the Center for Ceramics in Berlin, Germany, The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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2019 Oct 10
Visiting Artist Lecture: Kyle Johns
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Please join us in welcoming Kyle Johns to the Ceramics Program—Office for the Arts at Harvard, one of our incoming 2019-2020 Kyle Johns Artists-in-Residence. Johns will share his work, which is often made from multiple molds and cast in a myriad of colored slips. Johns will be an instructor in the Ceramics Program "Molds and Multiples" class this Fall as well as "Interdisciplinary Projects" and the Harvard Graduate School of Design course SCI-6317.
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2019 Oct 05
Lecture & Exhibition Reception: Passages of Absence
4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join us for a lecture with Natalia Arbelaez, 2018-19 Artist In Residence at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard as she discusses the work developed during her residency over the past year. Immediately following the lecture, join us in Gallery 224 from 5:00pm–7:00pm for the opening reception of Passages of Absence, Arbelaez's solo exhibition.
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2019 Sep 18
Visiting Artist Lecture: Crystal Morey
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join us in welcoming Crystal Morey to the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard to talk about her work in porcelain. Morey’s porcelain sculptures narrate the interdependence between humans, plants, and animals while cultivating empathy for our changing world.
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2019 Sep 07
Lecture & Exhibition Reception: Devitrified
4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard for a lecture with Colby Charpentier, 2018–19 Artist In Residence, as he discusses the work he developed during his residency. Charpentier has created work that explores the question “What if we took clay out of the vessel and glaze was all that remained? And what does it mean to replicate a 3-D printing process by hand? The result is ceramic: glass, devitrified.”
Immediately following the lecture will be the opening reception of Devitrified, Charpentier's solo exhibition.
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2019 Sep 06
The Marks Project: A Dictionary of American Ceramics, 1946–Present
1:00pm to 1:40pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program—Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The Marks Project is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit creating the first online research hub for American studio ceramics. This is a searchable, online database of American studio ceramic makers working from 1945 onward and their marks, signatures, back stamps, and more.
Learn about how you can contribute content to The Marks Project database or use it as a research tool. On September 6, join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard for a presentation with Martha Vida, Executive Director of The Marks Project.
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2019 Jul 17
Artist-In-Residence Lecture: Natalia Arbelaez
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program—Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Ceramics Program—Office for the Arts at Harvard for a lecture with 2018-19 Artist-In-Residence Natalia Arbelaez.
This lecture is free and open to the public, but space is limited.
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