Ceramics Program
Program development, supervision, and coordination.
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Nancy Selvage , Ceramics Program Director
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Shawn Panepinto, Ceramics Program Coordinator
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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. Shawnfs 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 Snyderfs 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.
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