This one-day workshop focuses on developing a personal vocabulary of imagery while exploring ways to compose that imagery on hand-built and/or wheel-thrown ceramic forms. Using humor as a storytelling tool, King introduces nontraditional approaches to function and narrative in ceramic work. Students will incorporate their own imagery through carving into slip-colored clay (sgraffito). In addition, glaze techniques that enhance and support surface imagery will be demonstrated.
Kathy King is an active studio artist in the Boston area, an instructor, and the Director of the Ceramics Program and Visual Arts Initiatives at Harvard's Office for the Arts. Before returning to Boston in 2008, she was an Associate Professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. She received her BA in Studio Art with a major in Ceramics from Connecticut College, New London, CT, and her MFA from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She has given workshops and lectures at over eighty-five colleges, schools, and art centers throughout the USA. The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts featured King as an Emerging Artist in 1999, a Demonstrating Artist in 2002, a co-juror for the 2012 National Student Juried Show, and a co-juror for the Emerging Artist Fellowships in 2025. She was awarded a Brother Thomas Fellowship by the Boston Foundation, Boston, MA, and a Craft Schools US Residency at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Center. Other residencies include the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine, and the Winter Residency at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She has served on the Board of Directors of Studio Potter, The Marks Project, and hosts the podcast “For Flux Sake" with Matt and Rose Katz. Learn more on King’s website.
This one-day workshop focuses on developing a personal vocabulary of imagery while exploring ways to compose that imagery on hand-built and/or wheel-thrown ceramic forms. Using humor as a storytelling tool, King introduces nontraditional approaches to function and narrative in ceramic work. Students will incorporate their own imagery through carving into slip-colored clay (sgraffito). In addition, glaze techniques that enhance and support surface imagery will be demonstrated.
Kathy King is an active studio artist in the Boston area, an instructor, and the Director of the Ceramics Program and Visual Arts Initiatives at Harvard's Office for the Arts. Before returning to Boston in 2008, she was an Associate Professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. She received her BA in Studio Art with a major in Ceramics from Connecticut College, New London, CT, and her MFA from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She has given workshops and lectures at over eighty-five colleges, schools, and art centers throughout the USA. The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts featured King as an Emerging Artist in 1999, a Demonstrating Artist in 2002, a co-juror for the 2012 National Student Juried Show, and a co-juror for the Emerging Artist Fellowships in 2025. She was awarded a Brother Thomas Fellowship by the Boston Foundation, Boston, MA, and a Craft Schools US Residency at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Center. Other residencies include the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine, and the Winter Residency at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She has served on the Board of Directors of Studio Potter, The Marks Project, and hosts the podcast “For Flux Sake" with Matt and Rose Katz. Learn more on King’s website.
