About the Educator
teaching
Director & Instructor. Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, Boston, MA 1978–2009
Visiting Professor of Art at Ewha University, Seoul, Korea 1995
Lecturer. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1978
Guest Instructor. Shanghai Institute of Visual Art 2014
artist talks
2019 Sculpture Made in Response to Environmental Concerns. Environmental Studies Program. Tufts University, Medford, MA
2019 Lecture: Hydro: Commission, Design, Fabrication, Installation, Art Department, UMass Lowell, MA
2019 Lecture: Hydro: Commission, Design, Fabrication, Installation, Artists’ Working Group, Lowell, MA
2014 Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA USA
2014 Caral-Supe Archaeological Project, Caral, Peru
2012 Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
2011 Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China
2010 China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2010 Science of Art. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2009 University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
2004 Santa Fe Art Institute. Santa Fe, NM
2001 Grand Canyon Public Art Project. Peabody Museum, Harvard University
1992 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1989 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1988 Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA
1986 University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
1985 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
lectures
2023 Sustainable Art Practice Issues, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2017 Art Materials / Environmental Impact /Carbon Credits, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Sustainable Ceramics. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2013 Sustainable Ceramics. Kaolin World Ceramic Summit Forum, Jingdezhen, China
2012 Celadon: Experience Analysis, Inspiration. International Symposium on Goryeo Celadon.
Ganjin, South Korea
2012 Sustainable Ceramics. National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. Annual Conference. Seattle, WA USA
2011 Keynote. Sustainable Ceramic Arts Practice: Challenges, Strategies, and Creative Expression.
Ceramic Arts and Design for a Sustainable Society, Gothenburg, Sweden
2011 Being Painted by Alice Neel, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA USA
2010 Science of Art. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA USA
2010 Porcelain material science fuels global consumption and research for the past millennium. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan via teleconference.
2010 Being Painted by Alice Neel, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI USA
2008 Keynote. Global Impact of Chinese Porcelain Technology. International Symposium on
Advanced Synthesis and Processing Technology for Materials, Wuhan, China
2008 Artist / Scientist Collaborations. Symposium: “Citizens and Science for a Sustainable Future”.
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2002 Ceramics in Public Art, Foshan Ceramics Exposition/Symposium, Foshan, China
articles
2013 Sustainable Ceramics. Kaolin World Ceramic Summit Forum, Jingdezhen, China
2012 Porcelain: A Contemporary Cultural Touchstone. New “China”: Porcelain Art from Jingdezhen
1920–2012. Exhibition Catalogue. China Institute, New York, NY
2012 Celadon: Experience Analysis, Inspiration. International Symposium on Scientific
Investigation and Development of Northeastern Asian Celadon. Ganjin, South Korea
2012 Sustainable Ceramics. National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. Conference
Publication.
2009 Forward to catalog Jingdezhen Contemporary International Ceramics Exhibition,
Jingdezhen, China
2006 A Public Art Fable, Introduction to World Contemporary Public Ceramic Art by Zhang Yushan,
Hunan Fine Arts Press, Changsha, China
2006 Issues of Craftsmanship in 20th Century Art. Ceramic Millennium, edited by Garth Clark.
2003 Islamic Ceramic Traditions Symposia, National Conference on Education in the Ceramics
Arts Quarterly Publication, NCECA News, Spring 2003
2002 Islamic Ceramic Traditions Symposia, Studio Potter, December 2002
2002 Contemporary Ceramics in Public Art and Architecture, Design and Use of World Building
Ceramics, Foshan, China, October 2002
1998 Spheres of Influence, Cycles of Exchange, Widening Circles of Colleagues, Harvard
University Arts, Spectrum, September 1998
1998 Training Artists for Production Safety and Environmental Protection, International Union of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, July 1998
1996 Specialized Study in the Field of Ceramics, Ceramics Conference, June 1996, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Sonoran Snake, article on mural commission, The Studio Potter. June 1995
1992 Glasnost and the Arts, Radcliffe Quarterly, Cambridge, MA. March 1992
1992 A Report Summarizing Ideas Generated from four Artists Workshops, Central Artery/Tunnel
Project. Massachusetts Highway Department, November 1992
1991 Introduction. Exhibition Catalog. Habitat Institute for the Environment, Belmont MA
1980 Issues of Craftsmanship in 20th Century Art. Transactions of 1979 Ceramics History
Symposium. Syracuse NY, Garth Clark, editor, Ceramics History Institute.