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

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

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  

 

 

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.