Vessels, Food, and the Table

Sheryl Zacharia

Painterly Techniques for using oxides, slips, underglazes to enhance textures and forms
Monday, July 21, 1 - 9 pm

Slides, a demonstration, and a discussion will engage participants with painterly techniques for using oxides, slips, underglazes, and glaze to enhance the textures and forms of their work. The slide presentation will show Zacharia's transitional and current work. The demonstration will focus on her current glazing techniques. Discussions with students will consider ideas and techniques for developing expressive relationships between form and surface.

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

Zacharia, Sheryl, "Jazzy Blues"(left), "Curvaceous"(right)

What motivates my work is a compelling urge to play, create, feel and think outside of the stressful world we live in. It is inspiring to surround myself with beauty and appreciate all the visual stimulation that our environment and art have to offer.

Making vessels intrigues me, because they break the boundaries between functional pottery and sculpture. It also gives me the chance to work two and three dimensionally, sculpting a piece and then using the surface as a canvas on which to paint… The texture of the clay gives a natural backround to my palette and drawings, which are dictated by the forms. The abstract forms and painted surfaces are influenced by my music and painting backround. Pattern is rhythm, palette is harmony, lines and shapes are lyrical.

Zacharia, Sheryl, "Liquid Woman"(left), "Water Waltz"(right)

Sheryl Zacharia's ceramics reflect her painting background and previous career as a singer-songwriter. She exhibits her work nationally and teaches at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City and the Art School at Old Church in Demarest New Jersey.

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