2020 Sep 25
Portraits in Pajamas: Live Event for "Fresh Breaths: Portrait of Sabrina"
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Online via Instagram Live
Join the Ed Portal online with two of Boston's most impactful artists, Chanel Thervil and Sabrina Dorsainvil, to celebrate the virtual unveiling of Fresh Breaths: Portrait of Sabrina.
In an intimate conversation and Q&A on Instagram Live, these artists will explore ways they and other creatives of color are navigating the nuances of self-care, survival, and the new normals as a result of COVID-19.
Get cozy and experience the newest piece in Thervil's Quarantine Self-Care Portrait series, a multi-media project that combines interviews, portrait...
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2020 Sep 14
By Hand at Home
Repeats every week every Monday until Mon Oct 19 2020 .
6:30pm to 8:30pm
6:30pm to 8:30pm
6:30pm to 8:30pm
6:30pm to 8:30pm
6:30pm to 8:30pm
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join 2019-20 Artist in Ruth Easterbrook in exploring hand building with clay from home. Each session includes on-line demonstrations and will address issues of construction, function and cover a variety of surface decoration techniques. 
*Session 1 class on October 12th will take place on Columbus Day/Indigenous People's Day.
With your registration, you will receive access to a Harvard Google Classroom which will feature recordings of each class. In the case you miss a class or would like to review, these recordings will be available for 30 days after the end of the...
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2020 Jul 10
Visit an Artist: Joanna Mark
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 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 be in our very own backyard with a visit to the home studio of Boston-area, ceramic artist Joanna Mark. Joanna is both a studio participant at the Harvard Ceramics Program as well an instructor of handbuilding...
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2020 Jul 07
Visit an Artist: Kathy King
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Online Event
During this event, the Director of the Ceramics Program will step from behind the Zoom and be featured instead from her home studio in East Walopole, Massachusetts.  King will demonstrate preparing for and executing the technique of sgraffito on functional pots and sculptural wall hangings. King will discuss the vocabulary of images she chooses in her work, often pertaining to feminist and LGBTQi issues.
Cost: Free for Harvard Undergraduates. $25.00 for Harvard Graduate Students, Harvard Staff and Adult Community.
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2020 Jun 30
Visit an Artist: Courtney Martin
6:30pm to 7:30pm
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.
Studio potter Courtney Martin opens her studio to us from the mountains of North Carolina near the Penland School of Crafts. Courtney will share her studio life, her process and how she juggles being  mother of of two with her husband,...
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2020 Jun 27
Visit an Artist Series: Hayne Bayless
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
oin 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 be traveling to Connecticut to visit Hayne Bayless at Sideways Studios for a special 2-hour studio visit! Hayne will be showing us around the studio and will...
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2020 Jun 26
Visit an Artist Series: Lindsay Rogers
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 from across the country 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 be traveling to the beautiful mountains of East Tennessee to meet studio potter and educator Lindsay Rogers to see her studio, talk about her work and her advocacy for a more locally based sustainable...
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2020 Jun 22
Visit an Artist: Janice Jakielski and Joshua Persky
6:30pm to 7:30pm
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 visit takes place in Sutton, Massachusetts where you might find Janice Jakielski, and her husband Joshua Persky, outside tending their beehives. Recently...
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2020 Jun 20
Visit an Artist: 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 travel to the beautiful mountains of North Carolina to visit the one and only Suze Lindsay for a special 2-hour edition of our series! Suze (scheduled to be a...
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2020 Jun 19
Visit an Artist Series: Mark Errol
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 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 be traveling to Tifton, Georgia to visit with Mark Errol and hear about he is juggling a life as a studio potter, educator and co-owner of ...
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2019 Nov 16
Two-day Masterclass with Linda Christianson and George McCauley
Repeats every day until Sun Nov 17 2019 .
10:00am to 5:00pm
10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave, Allston
Potters Linda Christianson and George McCauley have a combined "100 years of experience, travels, workshop histories, exhibitions, stories, studio work and teaching experience.” This two-day Master Class addresses form, surface and a variety of firing methods. Both feel strongly about form as an essential element in their work. The artists will discuss their own specific surface treatments and experience in firing including atmospheric firing, soda, wood and low temperature wood firing.
On the first day, the instructors will use wheel throwing and handbuilding techniques...
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2019 Sep 21
Kick-Off the ArtLab: Opening Celebration
10:00am to 12:30pm
Location: 
Harvard ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Allston
Join the Harvard ArtLab, Harvard’s new laboratory for art and research, for an opening celebration on September 21! Allston-based tap dance company Subject: Matter will kick off the celebration with a performance beginning promptly at 10:00am accompanied by a live jazz band. Visitors can have their portrait taken by Boston-based photographer OJ Slaughter and experience the ArtLab’s sound studio and A*, the multi-channel art installation by Harvard Film Study Center Fellow Andy Graydon.
This event is free and open to the public!
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2019 Sep 09
Kogei-Kyoto Ceramic Artist Demonstrations
10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program—Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard is proud to host four influential ceramic artists from the artists group, Kogei-Kyoto crafts collective of Kyoto, Japan. Two simultaneous artist demonstrations in the morning by Makimasa Imai and Takehiro Kato and two demonstrations in the afternoon by Teruko Ide and Ryozo Shibata will give registered participants the opportunity to appreciate the range of techniques used by these artists.
Cost: 
Adult Community enrolled in a Fall 2019 course at the Ceramics Program: $50
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2019 Jun 15
Visiting Artist Workshop: Miranda Thomas
Repeats every day until Sun Jun 16 2019 .
10:00am to 4:00pm
10:00am to 4:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Hone your surface skills and eye for design with world renowned potter Miranda Shackleton Thomas. Thomas will teach participants how to use rhythms, spaces, dividing up shapes and symbolism to help build up patterns.
The first day of this workshop will involve Thomas demonstrating her use of slips, inlay, freehand drawing, carving, brushwork, building, and dissecting patterns. Emphasis will be placed on brush work and exercises will be given to become familiar with all types of brushes and the stokes produced on paper, and later in the day, progressing onto pots. The second...
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2019 Jun 06
Visiting Artist Workshop: Tomoo Hamada
10:00am to 2:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join Japanese Master Potter Tomoo Hamada, second son of Shinsaku Hamada and grandson of Shoji Hamada, for a half-day demonstration of his work. Although he uses traditional methods, his work is distinctively different from that of his father and grandfather. His more complex shapes are designs are highly regarded worldwide. Hamada has exhibited, lectured and given workshops internationally and was integral in helping the pottery community of Mashiko rebuild from the devastating Tohoku earthquake of 2011. Hamada’s work will be featured at Pucker Gallery beginning Friday, June 7th.
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2019 May 08
Creative City Boston Information Session
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Artists! Interested in applying to Creative City Boston? Come to an information session to learn more about the program and new application process.
Creative City Boston Artist Grants provide project-specific funding to artists to create work that sparks public imagination, inspires community members to share in civic experience, and seizes opportunities to creatively engage important conversations taking place in Boston’s communities.
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2019 May 02
ARTS FIRST 2019
Thu May 2 (All day) to Sun May 5 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard University
Each ARTS FIRST festival is unique, but every year combines the exuberance of Harvard students, faculty and affiliates who are passionate about the many art forms presented in four rousing days of performances, exhibitions and community.
Enjoy free, family-friendly performances, dance styles from around the world, public art walks, hands-on artmaking, and much more! We look forward to celebrating the artists of Harvard community with you during ARTS FIRST on May 2–5, 2019.
Events include:
• May 2,...
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2019 Apr 10
A Far Cry Presents: Sounds of the Universe
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Three-time Grammy nominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry returns to the Harvard Ed Portal for a cross-disciplinary program that examines the power of gravity and space through a musical lens. Join A Far Cry for an open rehearsal and discussion, in which the ensemble will preview their upcoming concert, Gravity at Jordan Hall, provide a window into their uniquely democratic rehearsal process, and explore the science behind music and the sounds of the universe with MIT theoretical particle physicist and gravitational-wave expert Jesse Thaler.
A Far Cry Presents:...
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2019 Apr 09
Advanced Film Screening: The Pursuit
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Spangler Auditorium, Harvard Business School, Batten Way, Boston
Please join the Harvard Business School Free Enterprise Club for an exclusive advance screening of the upcoming film The Pursuit. The film premieres in cities across America the week of April 28th, however we are pleased to provide you with an advance showing.
The Pursuit features Arthur Brooks as he crosses three continents in search of the secrets to a happier, more prosperous world, starting with those at the margins of society.
This screening will include an introduction and remarks by AEI President Arthur Brooks. Snacks and refreshments will be provided...
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2019 Mar 29
Ceramics Community Scholarship–Summer 2019
(All day)
Location: 
Ceramics Studio, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The Harvard Ed Portal and the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard are proud to announce one joint scholarship for a 8-10 week course at the Ceramics studio for summer 2019. Any Allston-Brighton resident, who is at least 18 years old, is eligible to apply. No prior ceramics experience is needed.
The scholarship covers the cost of registration and materials for one course. The recipient is responsible for payment of a $40 registration fee. A full list of summer courses will be posted shortly on the...
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