Fridays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm

September 29, October 6, 13, and 20, 2023

Instructor: Adriana Sousa

Brighten up your world by making a ceramic planter at the Ceramics Program! During this four-week workshop for Harvard College Undergraduates, learn to use the potter’s wheel and/or hand-building techniques to make a planter. Learn surface decoration techniques including slip application, inlay, and carving into the clay. The workshop will finish with an introduction to glaze and glazing techniques to prepare for the final kiln firing! This workshop comes with daily access to the Ceramics Program for the duration of the workshop to practice what you have learned!

This workshop for Harvard College Undergraduates is made possible by the Office for the Arts at Harvard.

Cost: Free for Harvard College Undergraduates.

Registration will open on August 16 at 10am. Login to create your account and register. 

More info HERE.

As an admirer of bisque molded pottery through the ages, Lisa Orr throws in bisque molds as the ancient romans did, embellishing with fluid slip drawings, and topping with hand formed sprigs. In this one-day workshop, Lisa Orr will demonstrate her processes for making bowls, a teapot, a mug, her signature butter dish, and a lacy, stained-glass-slip-supported salt cellar. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to make their own relief sprig positive and catch-all using Lisa’s molds.

Lisa’s artworks for the table often refer to traditional porcelain or restaurant whitewares, but with softer forms inspired by the playful and abundant qualities of Mexican earthenware. She invented her own production process after studying clay mold fragments in antiquated factories and museums. After forming pieces in molds, on the wheel, or both, she finishes with stamps, slips, sprigs and polychrome glazes. Though Lisa’s colors can evoke a vivid garden, it is the strength of her form that sets her work apart: it feels muscular and strong while showing fluidity. In this way she plays both ends of the spectrum, from the dynamic and substantive to the detailed and dreamy--full of surprise.

LISA ORR BIOGRAPHY

For 39 years Lisa Orr has been professional potter and student of ceramics. She completed an MFA at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1992 and later received grants including a Fulbright and a MAAA/NEA. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and the permanent collection of WOCEF in Korea. Currently she teaches, lectures and shows nationally and internationally.

Cost: $125 for Adult Community; $100 for Harvard Graduate students; $25 for Harvard College Undergraduates.

Registration will open on Tuesday, September 5 at 10am.

More info HERE.

Register HERE.

Perspectives on Performance welcomes artist Nick Mauss for his artist talk, "Staging Archives of Gestures." This event is co-presented with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and presented with the support of the Provostial Funds for the Arts and Humanities.

For any accessibility needs, please contact [email protected].

ABOUT NICK MAUSS

Nick Mauss is an artist based in New York. His exhibition Transmissions at the Whitney Museum of American Art catalyzed a new poetics of the archive and historiography through highly innovative work with dancers, curators, art historians, conservators, artworks, collectors, librarians, artists, costume makers, exhibition designers--where the entire infrastructure of making exhibitions was treated through the lens of performance.

Recent exhibitions include Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc. at Kunsthalle Basel (2019); and Intricate Others at Fundação de Serralves, Porto (2017). Mauss has intervened in exhibitions including the 2012 Whitney Biennial; Transcorporealities at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019), Florine Stettheimer at the Lenbachhaus, Munich (2014), and Designing Dreams: a Celebration of Léon Bakst (2016) and Christian Bérard: Eccentrique Bébé (2022) at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. As part of the 2019 Performa Biennial, Mauss participated in the reconstruction of Yvonne Rainer's 1965 Parts of Some Sextets, dancing the role originated for Robert Morris, and realizing a book with Rainer and Emily Coates about the complex process of restaging a work of dance in a way that brings historical paradigm shifts to bear visibly in the present. Mauss' most recent book (co-authored with Angela Miller), Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa, has just come out from University of California Press; and a volume of his selected writings is forthcoming from After 8 Books, Paris. 

Photo courtesy of Nick Mauss.

More info HERE.

Fridays, 6:30 – 9:30 pm

October 27, November 3, 10, 17, 2023

Instructor: Adriana Sousa

Think big in terms of vases, bottles, and tall forms (pitchers for example) using the potter’s wheel and/or hand-building techniques such as coiling and slab building. Then, learn surface decoration techniques including slip application, inlay, and carving into the clay. The workshop will finish with an introduction to glaze and glazing techniques to prepare for the final kiln firing!

This workshop comes with daily access to the Ceramics Program for the duration of the workshop to practice what you have learned! 

This workshop for Harvard College Undergraduates is made possible by the Office for the Arts at Harvard.

Cost: Free for Harvard College Undergraduates. 

Registration will open on August 16 at 10am. Login to create your account and register. 

More info HERE.

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is an 90-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, including two Festival Award-winning titles. Considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers, the Festival includes fiction, documentary and animation from around the world. Throughout its almost 40 years of history, the Festival has always supported short films, providing a platform for both established and new filmmakers to connect with audiences. The 2023 Short Film Tour program is a sampling of Festival offerings and a testament to the unique storytelling potential that the format holds. Audiences who missed the Sundance Film Festival – which took place online and in-person in Park City, Utah January 19 through January 29 this year – can enjoy a mix of fiction, documentary, and animated shorts that are funny, sad, inspirational, and full of strong characters.

The Festival’s Short Film Program has long been established as a place to discover talented directors, such as past alumni Andrea Arnold, Lake Bell, Damien Chazelle, Destin Daniel Cretton, Jay and Mark Duplass, Debra Granik, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Todd Haynes, Sterlin Harjo, Don Hertzfeldt, Sky Hopinka, Shaka King, Lynne Ramsay, Dee Rees, Joey Soloway, Taika Waititi, and many others.

More info HERE.

Schedule of tour: