Ceramics Program

Program development, supervision, and coordination.

• Nancy Selvage , Ceramics Program Director

• Shawn Panepinto, Ceramics Program Coordinator

• Ji-Eun Kim, Ceramics Program Staff Assistant

Instructors (Fall '08)

• Jay Bordage
  MFA Tufts University, BFA Massachusetts College of Art, BA Oberlin College. In addition to teaching sculpture at Harvard's OFA, Bordage is an assistant professor at Chester College of New England. His work exhibits nationally and focuses on the body through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, photography, video and performance.

• Josephine Burr
  MFA University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; recent Instructor, Manager of Education, Greenwich House Pottery, NY. Her work incorporates minimalist forms with richly layered surfaces, using traditional ceramic processes as well as non-fired media such as wax encaustic, graphite, and print transfers.

• Wayne Fuerst
  Studio potter, instructor at U. Mass Dartmouth and Mudflat Pottery School. His fresh and spontaneous approach to altering forms and glaze painting creates lively sets of wheel thrown functional pots. His expertise in a wide range of firing techniques includes a focus on wood�|fired ceramics.

• Pamela Gorgone
  BFA , Tufts University/School of the Museum of FIne Arts in Boston. Pam is a Ceramics Program instructor and a Non-Resident Tutor and Instructor at Harvard's Mather House. Her small scale sculptural work, often focusing on sets and serial objects, has been described as quiet, meditative, and elemental.

• Lisa Houck
  MFA Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lisa is interested in creating a world of color and pattern, with compositions that are complex enough to suggest something new each time you view the artwork. Clay and mosaics are her media for public art projects.

• Dennis McLaughlin
  Dennis McLaughlin spent twenty years working as a studio potter in southwestern Minnesota, often using the local clays and minerals to make his vessels. His interest in a variety of folk traditions continues to influence his stoneware forms and surfaces.

• Allison Newsome
  MFA Rhode Island School of Design; recent artist in residence at Beatice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai California. Through her work Allison explores fundamental, utilitarian methods implemented on our land and water.

• Shawn Panepinto
  Ridgewood College of Art Diploma; Boston Museum School Diploma; former instructor at Boston Museum School. Shawn�fs work is the direct result of her observations and reactions and typically shows her background in painting, sculpture, and graphic design while revealing her unique sense of humor.

• Crystal Ribich
  Participant in national and international workshops, kiln-building sessions, and specialized firings with a wide range of artists throughout the United States. Workshop instructor at Castle Hill, Truro, MA. Soda firing instructor and glaze researcher at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard.

• Nancy Selvage
  MFA in Sculpture, Boston Museum School-Tufts University; former instructor at Boston Museum School, Rhode Island School of Design, Ewha University, and Mass. College of Art. Nancy creates work in response to the context of a specific site or situation.

• Forrest Snyder
  MFA, Alfred University, NY. Forrest Snyder�fs artistic interests include history, technology, architecture, sculpture, mixed media and all those funny places they intersect. He is the founder and editor of the online journal Critical Ceramics. http://www.criticalceramics.org

• Deborah Schwartzkopf
  MFA Pennsylvania State University; 2007 Visiting Assistant Professor Ohio University. Residencies at San Bao and Archie Bray. Deborah builds porcelain forms whose defining lines and soft planes are geometric and sensual, elegant and animated, and architectural and organic.

• Kathi Tighe
  Raku workshop instructor, at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard. Kathi has worked as a studio potter with a focus on raku firing for over twenty years. Since 1988 she has led many workshops and has been recognized for her finely-tuned raku-fired ceramic ocarinas.

• Stephanie Young
  BFA in Sculpture, Art Institute of Boston, Ceramics studio manager and instructor New Art Center, Newton, MA. Instructor at Wheelock College. Stephanie creates functional vessels and sculpture with a wide range of clay materials, hand building and wheel throwing techniques and firing methods.

• Meng Zhao
  Ceramics concentration at National Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou China; Gold Medal at the International Ceramic Art Competition in Faenza Italy; Winning Prize at the International Ceramics Competition in Seoul, Korea.