Greenwich House

Trevor King Artist Talk
2021-01-29 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Trevor King will give a talk about the project he worked on during his fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery.
Trevor King is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Queens, New York. King primarily works in sculpture, preferring materials like clay and plaster that convey a sense of tactility and material memory. He is interested in the endurance of the human spirit and memory, and uses the methods of a documentarian to inform his work in sculpture. He often employs digital media in this exploration, sometimes including interviews and personal archives in his work.
King has an MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan and a BFA from Slippery Rock University. He has also studied in the Sculpture and Intermedia Departments at the University of Poznan, Poland. He has shown his work at David Klein Gallery (Detroit, MI; 2019), Emmanuel Barbault Gallery (New York, NY; 2018), Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA; 2018), among others. He has held a number of residencies, including at Mass MoCA (2021, upcoming), Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (2015), and Ox-Bow School of Art (2014).
During his fellowship, King created an impressionistic documentary video that tells the story of how Greenwich House Pottery and its community are maintaining the ceramic arts tradition, and pushing it forward. He shot video footage of daily life at the studio and interviewed staff, students, and other affiliated artists, combining these two types of documentation to create a romantic video portrait that demonstrates the beauty of the Pottery and its community.

This event is free and open to the public.
Register here.

GHP Closed
2021-01-18 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP is closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
For more information, visit Pottery Notes or the Current Students section of our website.

Online Artist Talk and Opening After Image, Kate Roberts
2021-01-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Kate Roberts, “After Image” (install) Images: © Alan Wiener, courtesy Greenwich House Pottery 2021
After Image
Kate Roberts
Online Artist Talk & Opening | Friday, January 15, 2021 | 5:00 p.m.

Kate Roberts will be giving an online artist talk in conjunction with her solo exhibition After Image in our Jane Hartsook Gallery. The online opening reception will immediately follow the artist talk.
This event is free and open to the public.
Read more about the exhibition here.

Watch the recording of the online artist talk and opening reception here.

"Colorations and Explorations" Live Stream
2021-01-13 19:30 - 20:00 | NY
Please join us for a live stream of a special “from home” performance by Dance Clarinets of “Colorations and Explorations” by Joe Daley this Wednesday, January 13 at 7:30 pm. the Dance Clarinets are comprised of the adult woodwinds ensemble of GHMS and professional musicians. The ensemble is led by JD Parran.
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“Colorations and Explorations” by Joseph Daley was commissioned by Greenwich House Music School with assistance from the Department of Cultural Affairs. This live stream was made possible with funds from Continuum Culture & Arts and the Brooklyn Art Council. We would also like to thank the following people for their efforts to produce the video: Lee Odom, Andrew Drury, Andrew Jordan, JD Parran, and of course, our composer, Joe Daley.
After 50 years of working with some of the most remarkable artists in the adventurous music scene, Joseph Daley has emerged as one of jazz and contemporary music’s most exciting leaders and composers. His albums The Seven Deadly Sins and The Seven Heavenly Virtues earned rave reviews and secured a spot on several Best of the Year lists thanks to his innovative contemporary take on the tradition of Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, and George Russell.

After Image, Kate Roberts
2021-01-08 17:00 - 2021-02-05 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Kate Roberts, After Image (install). Image: © Alan Wiener, courtesy Greenwich House Pottery 2021
After Image
Kate Roberts
Online Artist Talk & Opening Reception | Friday, January 15, 2021 | 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through January 8 through February 5, 2021
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present Kate Robert’s first solo exhibition in New York City. In her art practice, Roberts uses the decay of specific objects, architecture, or relationships to meditate on the passage of time. In this new body of work, she widens her lens, considering the massive destruction caused by forest fires that blazed across Oregon and much of the West Coast in 2020, the effects of which rippled out as far as the East Coast and Europe. Using clay dust to “paint” on transparent fabric, Roberts recreates the smoked-out landscapes left behind by the raging fires. Through skillful, time-consuming work, Roberts crafts the results of swift devastation wrought by the decay of environmental stewardship.
Kate Roberts is from Greenville, South Carolina. She earned her MFA and BFA from Alfred University in ceramics, with minors in art education and art history. Roberts’s work has been shown nationally in museums such as the Tampa Museum of Art (Florida; 2011) and the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY; 2006), and in major exhibitions such as Scripps College 69th Ceramic Annual (Claremont, CA; 2013) and Ceramic Top 40, shown at Red Star Studio (Kansas City, MO; 2013) and Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard (Allston, MA; 2014). She has held residencies nationally and internationally, including at Project Art (Cummington, MA; 2012), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass, CO; 2011), and Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France; 2011). Roberts has also taught extensively, including at University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Washington in Seattle. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.

Images: © Alan Wiener, courtesy of Greenwich House Pottery, 2021

Winter Term 2021 Begins
2021-01-04 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Winter term at Greenwich House Pottery begins!
For more information, visit the Classes section of our website.

Financial Aid Application Due
2020-12-15 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Financial Aid applications for the winter term are due.
For more information, visit the Financial Aid section of our website.

GHP Closed for Interterm Recess
2020-12-13 - 2021-01-03 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP’s Fall Term ends on December 12. Winter Term begins on January 4, 2021.
GHP is closed for Interterm Recess from December 13, 2020 through January 3, 2021.
For more information, visit Pottery Notes or the Current Students section of our website.
To register for Winter Term classes visit the Classes section of our website.

Ceramic Sidewalk Sale
2020-12-05 10:00 - 2020-12-06 16:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Ceramic Sidewalk Sale
December 5 & 6, 2020, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Looking for holiday presents and a way to support you community? Look no further! Greenwich House Pottery’s Sidewalk Sale has you covered. Shop with us at our two-day outdoor sale full of affordable handmade ceramics by local artists and you’re sure to find the perfect presents for you loved ones, from functional ware to unique sculptural works. All proceeds go to keep your favorite local ceramic arts center (GHP) running and supporting our community of ceramic artists.
Greenwich House Pottery is a nonprofit ceramics center that has been supporting artists and promoting the field of ceramics for over 110 years. Starting with clay modeling classes in the earliest days of Greenwich House as part of its Handicraft School, the Pottery flourished with the help of the community and philanthropic support from patrons like Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. GHP remains a stalwart of innovation and art.

Cups + Cocktails Virtual Happy Hour
2020-12-03 17:00 - 18:00 | NY
Cups + Cocktails Virtual Happy Hour
Join us online with your favorite cocktail in your favorite cup to toast GHP’s incredible faculty! They have done an amazing job adjusting their teaching methods to our new socially-distant world. Join us to cheer them on and have an online look at the work in our potLUCK raffle.
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Topic: Cups + Cocktails Happy Hour
Time: Dec 3, 2020 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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This event is free and open to the public.
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Play It Forward
2020-12-01 18:30 - 19:05 | NY
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
6:30 – 7:05 p.m.
An evening of music to support the Greenwich House Music School Scholarship Fund
featuring faculty performances by
Brandee Younger
Miolina
Taka Kigawa
Performers also include GHMS Scholarship students Jeffrey Sussman, Naya Melvani and Nikita Melvani!
Enjoy the live-streamed concert from the comfort of your home with a Little Owl gift basket and fine wine from the private collection of board member Mark Rudd delivered right to your door.
This year, Play It Forward will be a tribute to the Greenwich House Music School faculty. Covid-19 has hit everyone hard, in many ways, but it has especially hit the arts and the faculty members of GHMS. Concerts have been canceled, live performances are a ghost of what they once were, and many students have moved away, or are afraid to begin learning a new instrument remotely. Many faculty had to file for unemployment for the very first time in their lives. Brandee Younger, Mioi Takeda, Lynn Bechtold and Taka Kigawa will be playing to showcase the immense talent of the Music School’s faculty, and as tribute to the challenges they and their peers have faced this year. Please join us in supporting our amazing faculty.
Ticket Sales Close on December 1st, 5:00 p.m.

Harpist Brandee Younger is a classically-trained musician playing in the avant-garde tradition of her sonically forward predecessors Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. As well versed in performance art as she is in the art of creative risk-taking, Brandee Younger challenges commonly-held notions in her quest to make the harp a more relevant force in today’s music.
Ms. Younger’s ability to seamlessly inject the harp into arrangements and venues where it has been overlooked is a testament to her dedication to the instrument. She delivers a consistently fresh take on the timeless instrument as a performer and leader of the Brandee Younger Quartet. Known for expressive interpretations of traditional harp repertoire as well as her continuing work with a diverse cross-section of musical talents, Brandee is a creative linchpin whose nuanced presence and willingness to push boundaries makes her irreplaceable on record and in performance.
She has graced the stage with jazz leaders and popular hip-hop and r&b titans including Ravi Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Jack Dejohnette, Reggie Workman, Common, Salaam Remi, John Legend, Maxwell and Lauryn Hill. Her fourth album Soul Awakening was released in June of 2019 and her original composition “Hortense” can be heard on the original Netflix Concert-Documentary by Beyoncé; Homecoming.
Called “talented and dedicated” by Arts Birmingham, and described as displaying “aggressive and virtuosic prowess” with “brilliance of sound, technical mastery, and stunning expressivity” by I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, violin duo Miolina has been attracting audiences since their inception in 2012. Mioi Takeda and Lynn Bechtold are creating and shaping the violin duo repertoire of the 21st century. Miolina specializes in violin duo music that employs the natural beauty and sound of the instruments, with or without electronics and video. They enjoy collaborating on new compositions with composers, as well as discovering hidden gems of the past.
In June 2017, they were chosen to join New Music USA’s Impact Cohort. They are also recipients of 2019 grants from Adami Foundation, and the American-Scandinavian Foundation; a 2018 grant from the Queens Council on the Arts; a 2017 Japan Foundation NY grant; 2016 and 2014 grants from New York Women Composers; and a 2015 grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. In 2017 and 2019, they were chosen for artist residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute. Miolina is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Their self-titled debut album was released on Composers Concordance Records, distributed by Naxos, in 2018, and they can be heard on 2020’s ‘Le Passager,’ performing Jean-Baptiste Favory’s UNISONO V, released on ACEL Records. All are available on iTunes and Amazon.

Critically acclaimed pianist Taka Kigawa has earned outstanding international recognition as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber music artist since winning First Prize in the prestigious 1990 Japan Music Foundation Piano Competition in Tokyo, and the Diploma Prize at the 1998 Concurs Internacional Maria Canals De Barcelona in Spain. His repertoire is extremely large and varied, ranging from the baroque to avant-garde compositions of today. His accolades include being heralded by The New York Times as a “phenomenon,” and The New Yorker as “an artist of stature.” His New York City recital in 2010 was chosen as one of the best concerts of the year by The New York Times. His New York City recital in August 2011 was picked as one of the most notable concerts in the 2011-2012 season by Musical America. Also his Buenos Aires recital in April 2014 was chosen as one of the best concerts of the year by Argentina’s leading paper, La Nación.
He has performed extensively as a recitalist and soloist in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Cleveland, Paris, Milan and Barcelona, with appearances in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Kosciuszko Foundation, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Cité de la Musique, and Salle Gaveau in Paris, Plau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. He frequently tours in his native Japan, appearing in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagano and Kyoto, both as a recitalist and a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music groups. He has performed with such distinguished institution as The Cleveland Orchestra. He has been a featured artist on many television and radio networks throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has collaborated closely with such renowned musicians as Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung and Jonathan Nott. Also he premiered the last solo piano piece of Yusef Lateef, the jazz legend, in New York City in 2013. Taka Kigawa is a Steinway Artist.

GHP Closed
2020-11-25 - 2020-11-29 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP is closed for Thanksgiving.
For more information, visit Pottery Notes or the Current Students section of our website.

potLUCK Raffle
2020-11-20 10:00 - 2020-12-10 23:30 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Join us for GHP’s potLUCK raffle!
Support your local ceramic arts center and get the chance to win work by your favorite Greenwich House Pottery artists. GHP, like many small arts nonprofits, has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and needs your support.
Greenwich House Pottery is an art center that has been supporting artists and their projects, and teaching and promoting ceramics to the world for over 115 years. Through war, depression, recession and a century of growth and chance, GHP perseveres and remains a stalwart of innovation and art. We offer a diverse program of classes, exhibitions, artist residencies, free public lectures, Masters Series Workshops, and community outreach, all of which serve newcomers, amateurs and professional artists alike. GHP plays a vital role in community building and providing access to the arts. We offer a chance to learn from clay in a direct way and to foster connections between artist, material and community.
Read more here.

Miolina: A Benefit for GHMS
2020-11-12 19:00 - 19:30 | NY
Violin duo, Miolina, is performing to give thanks to Greenwich House Music School.
Please join us for a half-hour live-streaming concert from the Renee Weiler Concert Hall on November 12 at 7:00 pm. This concert is donation-based, and free to all. Suggested donation of $20 can be made here at any time.
Faculty members Mioi Takeda and Lynn Bechtold, of the violin duo Miolina, perform four works by Ms. Bechtold for violin duo and fixed media electronics: Away/Home, Judy from Brooklyn, No Kendo, and Tears–a Lament, based on a song by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Miolina has been called “talented and dedicated” by Arts Birmingham, and described as displaying “aggressive and virtuosic prowess” with “brilliance of sound, technical mastery, and stunning expressivity” by I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
Covid-19 has hit everyone hard, in many ways, but it has especially hit the arts and the faculty members of Greenwich House Music School. Concerts have been canceled, live performances are a ghost of what they once were, and many students have moved away, or are afraid to begin learning a new instrument remotely. Many faculty had to file for unemployment for the very first time in their lives. “It’s a seriously fragile time for all of us,” says Bechtold and Takeda. “We can’t continue, however, if we don’t have a place like GHMS, that welcomes everyone and nurtures musicians of all ages.”
Lynn and Mioi welcome you to enjoy the concert, and ask everyone in our Greenwich House community to support the music school if you can. The concert will be live-streaming here.

GHP Closed
2020-11-11 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP is closed for Veteran’s Day.
For more information, visit Pottery Notes or the Current Students section of our website.

GHP Closed at 3:00 p.m.
2020-10-31 15:00 - 23:59 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP closes early for Halloween. Only open until 3:00 p.m.
For more information, visit Pottery Notes or the Current Students section of our website.

Online Artist Talk and Opening FUN-damentals, Didem Mert
2020-10-16 17:00 - 19:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
FUN-damentals
Didem Mert
Online Artist Talk & Opening | Friday, October 16, 2020 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Didem Mert will be giving an online artist talk in conjunction with her solo exhibition FUN-damentals in our Jane Hartsook Gallery. The online opening reception will immediately follow the artist talk. Join us with the following Zoom information:
This event is free and open to the public.
Read more about the exhibition here.
Watch the recording of the online artist talk and opening reception:

FUN-damentals, Didem Mert
2020-10-09 17:00 - 2020-11-06 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
FUN-damentals
Didem Mert
Online Artist Talk & Opening | Friday, October 16, 2020 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view October 9 – November 6, 2020
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present Didem Mert’s first solo exhibition in New York City. In this new body of work, Mert emphasizes the “fun” of ceramics by playing with basic pottery skills to reimagine vessel forms in ways that express her personality. The distinctive surfaces Mert achieves are heavily influenced by her early exposure to woodworking. As the daughter of a woodworker, Mert grew up paying special attention to surface texture and finish, a focus that carries through in her careful mark-making and selection of terra sigillata and glazes. Even the bright pops of color in her work mirror the woodshop, echoing the bright warning colors of heavy equipment, though rather than danger these tones warn of impending FUN!
Didem Mert is a San Francisco-based artist where she is also the Education Director of Clay by the Bay. Mert was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH. She earned her MFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and her BFA from Northern Kentucky University. Mert has shown her work nationally, including at: The Kiln Studio (Fairhope, AL; 2019), Clay AKAR (Iowa City, IA; 2018), The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA; 2017), Companion Gallery (Humboldt, TN; 2016), and Erie Art Museum (Erie, PA; 2015), among others.
Download the press release here.
Gallery is open by appointment only. Make an appointment here.
Watch the recording of Didem Mert’s online artist talk and opening reception here.

Flu Shots at Center on the Square
2020-10-05 10:00 - 15:00 | Center on the Square, 20 Washington Square N., New York, NY, 10011, United States

Mozart for Munchkins
2020-09-24 09:30 - 11:30, 2020-09-17 09:30 - 11:30, 2020-09-10 09:30 - 11:30 | Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Music for Munchkins creates an interactive and engaging atmosphere in which families can experience and enjoy music! Children of all ages are welcome to roll, crawl, squeal, and dance to their hearts’ content, while parents, grandparents, and caregivers can sit back and unwind. While the setting is informal, the programming remains first rate; from Bach to Bernstein, Beethoven to Barber, Mozart for Munchkins features outstanding works performed by exceptional musicians—an unforgettable experience for the whole family!
In order to follow COVID-19 safety protocols, concerts will take place in the back garden. Attendance is very limited. Please bring your own blanket and park it 6 feet from your neighbor, wear a mask (under 2 excluded), and get ready to dance, clap, and sing with us!
Kids under 12 are free!
Each interactive performance is followed by an “instrument petting zoo” where everyone is welcome to try the instruments and meet the performers!
There are two performances today.
9:15 – 10:00 a.m. Tickets can be purchased here.
10:30 – 11:15 a.m. Tickets can be purchased here.

The Pot Shop
2020-09-14 09:00 - 2020-09-25 17:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
The Pot Shop in the Jane Hartsook Gallery
Dave Gibson, Luc Hammond-Thomas, Julie Knight, Gina Tibbott, Dustin Yager
September 14 – 25, 2020
Help support the Pottery today by making a purchase at the Pot Shop! These limited edition works were all made by GHP staff and faculty during the pandemic. All proceeds go to keep your favorite local ceramic arts center (GHP) running and supporting our community of ceramic artists.
Greenwich House Pottery is a nonprofit ceramics center that has been supporting artists and promoting the field of ceramics for over 110 years. Starting with clay modeling classes in the earliest days of Greenwich House as part of its Handicraft School, the Pottery flourished with the help of the community and philanthropic support from patrons like Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. GHP remains a stalwart of innovation and art.
When GHP moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our faculty and staff stepped up to the challenge, some teaching online classes, some making pots to sell to support Greenwich House, and some doing both!

Fall Term 2020 Begins
2020-09-14 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Fall term at Greenwich House Pottery begins!
For more information, visit the Classes section of our website.

Sign Up to See the Gallery
2020-09-05 - 2021-04-30 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Want to see the latest exhibition in the gallery? We are pleased to welcome you to our exhibition. Due to social distancing practices, no more than 3 visitors are allowed in the gallery at one time. Please schedule your visits in increments of 15 minutes.

GHP Closed
2020-09-05 - 2020-09-13 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP is closed for Labor Day and to prepare for fall term.
For more information, visit Pottery Notes or the Current Students section of our website.

Financial Aid Application Due
2020-09-04 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Financial Aid applications for the fall term are due.
For more information, visit the Financial Aid section of our website.

Ceramics Now, Malene Barnett, Sindy Butz, Donna Green, Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, Kari Marboe
2020-07-17 17:00 - 2020-09-04 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
The gallery will be open with limited capacity by appointment only. Email kmcclure@greenwichhouse.org to make an appointment.
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present work by our 2018-2019 fellows and artists in residence: Malene Barnett, Sindy Butz, Donna Green, Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, and Kari Marboe. The Greenwich House Pottery Residency and Fellowship is a distinguished program that fosters artistic growth by providing artists with a creative community, time, space and materials to explore and generate new bodies of ceramic work in the center of the art world.

Summer Term Ends
2020-07-06 09:30 - 22:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Summer term ends August 14, 2020.
For more information, visit Pottery Notes or Open Studio Hours on the Current Students section of our website.

Summer Term Begins
2020-07-06 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Summer term begins July 6, 2020!
For more information, visit Pottery Notes or Open Studio Hours on the Current Students section of our website.
