A real-time online conversation about teaching ceramics online in the time of Covid-19.
What are the costs and benefits of trying to teach a haptic medium such as clay online? Short presentations followed by a conversation with the attendees.
This program is one of several planned that hopes to address issues specific to the ceramic community in the unique circumstances we all found ourselves.
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Bryan Hopkins was born in Philadelphia, PA. He began West Chester University of PA as a mathematics major, and found the ceramics studio in his junior year …
Bryan Hopkins was born in Philadelphia, PA. He began West Chester University of PA as a mathematics major, and found the ceramics studio in his junior year. Bryan went on to earn an MFA in Ceramics from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He has been studio potter working in porcelain since 1990 and has lived in Buffalo, NY, since 1995. Bryan’s personal research in the field of ceramics centers on the vessel- both utilitarian and sculptural.
Bryan teaches at Niagara County Community College. He has curated ceramics exhibitions both nationally and locally. Bryan’s work has been exhibited in group and solo shows nationally, including the NCECA Clay National Biennial. His work and research in ceramics has been published in Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Studio Potter, and numerous text books and e-books.
Bryan is a founding member of the on line ceramics group Objective Clay. He is also a New York Foundation on the Arts Fellow in Craft.
Stephanie A. Rozene, a Maine native, is an Associate Professor of Art, Head of the Ceramics Studio and Co-Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Hartwick College …
Stephanie A. Rozene, a Maine native, is an Associate Professor of Art, Head of the Ceramics Studio and Co-Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. She has served as a member of the Board of Trustees at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME since 2014 and is currently on their Program and Arts Council Advisory Board. Her previous teaching experience includes Bowling Green State University in OH and Siena Heights University in MI. She holds an M.F.A in ceramics and craft history from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and a B.F.A from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. She has shown her work nationally and internationally at, including but not limited to the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), Baltimore Clayworks (Baltimore, MD), The Philadelphia Clay Studio, Red Star Studios (Kansas City, MO), Harvard Ceramics, Vessels Gallery (Boston, MA), SOFA Chicago and VIA Vallauris (France). Most recently she has completed residencies at the International Ceramics Studio (Kecskemet, HU) VIA Vallauris (Vallauris, FR) and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Maine). She is dedicated to the advancement and development of the field of Craft History and Theory and in particular the use of historical ornament as a visual language.
Bobby Silverman is an artist and designer who lives and works in New York City …
Bobby Silverman is an artist and designer who lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in many public and private collections including the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, the European Ceramic Work Center, s’Hertogenbosch,The Netherlands, The Museum of Fine Arts,Houston, TX and the Renwick Gallery /Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington ,DC.
He has received fellowships from the Louisiana State Council for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts and the Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. He received his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO and his BA in Social Geography, Cum Laude, from Clark University Worcester, MA He has taught and lectured in China, the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, and is the Director of the Ceramics Center at 92nd St Y in New York City.
Chris Staley is a Distinguished Professor of Art at Penn State University. He was selected to be the Penn State Laureate for 2012-2013 …
Chris Staley is a Distinguished Professor of Art at Penn State University. He was selected to be the Penn State Laureate for 2012-2013. More recently, he was awarded the Universities Milton Eisenhower Distinguished Teaching Award. Chris was once rejected to all, the graduate MFA program’s he applied to. However, after attending the Kansas City Art Institute for a year as a special student, he went on to earn his MFA from Alfred University. He has traveled extensively as a visiting artist from Bezalel Academy in Israel to Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. He has received two National Endowment of the Arts Grants. His work is in many collections, including the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of Art, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as well as friend’s cupboards. He has served on the Board of Directors at the Archie Bray Foundation, in Helena, Montana and on the Board of Trustees at The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and recently served as President for NCECA, the National Council of Education for the Ceramic Arts.
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