Vessels, Food, and the Table

Gay Smith

"Always we are eating and drinking earth's body..." M. C. Richards
Monday, July 14, 1 - 9 pm

1 - 2 pm slide presentation
2 - 4 pm demonstration
5 - 6 pm potluck
(6 - 9 pm) (limited to those enrolled in Monday evening course plus a few others on first-enroll-first-serve basis)

Fees and RSVP: see below

Smith, Gertrude, "Pair Plates"(left), "Tea Cups and Saucers"(right)

The process of working with clay connects me with mystery. As in the ancient art of alchemy, the essential elements, earth, water, air, and fire, combine through the mediation of the potter to create form, new pots.

Smith, Gertrude, "Print Bowls"(left) "Tumblers"(right)

Gay Smith creates single fired porcelain ware in a soda kiln near Penland, NC. She received a North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship in 2006, and her work has been featured internationally in exhibitions, workshops, and publications, including a feature article in the April 2007 issue of Ceramics Monthly. She studied ceramics as a Harvard undergraduate in 1972-75. .

Fees and RSVP
1 - 2 pm:
Slide presentation only
free for all participants in Summer Ceramics Program and all Harvard students
$15 for all others

1 - 4 pm:
Slide presentation and demonstration
free for those enrolled in independent study in the Summer Ceramics Program
$20 for all other participants in Summer Ceramics Program and all Harvard students
$40 for all others
RSVP to Nancy Selvage

6 - 9 pm:
Hands-on , demonstrations, discussion, critique
free for those enrolled in the Vessel, Food, Table course
$20 for all participants in Summer Ceramics Program and all Harvard students
$40 for all others
RSVP to Nancy Selvage