Greenwich House

Ceramic Sidewalk Sale
2021-05-01 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Spring has sprung, and there’s no time like the present to treat yourself or a loved one to a handmade piece of pottery! Whether you’re looking for the perfect Mother’s Day gift or are simply hoping to spruce up your space, look no further than our Spring Sidewalk Sale.

All works for sale were generously donated by members of the Greenwich House Pottery community and proceeds directly benefit GHP’s operations.

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.

Uncharted: Migguel Anggelo
2021-05-13 20:00 - 20:30 | NY
Photo by Pavel Korbut
Migguel Anggelo
A First Look at English With an Accent
Streaming on Joe’s Pub Live!
May 13th, 8:00 p.m.

Migguel Anggelo and his longtime Musical Director and collaborator Jaime Lozano will premiere an online glimpse into the development of their ambitious new project, English with an Accent (EWaA). EWaA will ultimately take the tripartite form of a dance-theater live performance, a series of short online films and a musical album, but for this early and intimate show-and-tell, the artists will publicly premiere a fully-produced video presentation of the work, including several first drafts of the films and a number of final drafts of songs that were created during Anggelo’s recent residency as a New York Presenters Consortium artist. The performance features Joel Mateo on drums and percussion.
The story of EWaA centers around a newly emigrated caterpillar in New York City, unsure of which direction his life is taking. Is he really a caterpillar, or just a lowly worm? Will he become the butterfly of his dreams? And what does it mean to become a butterfly in the first place? This work explores the promise of the American Dream through themes of freedom, safety and self-worth. Anggelo and Lozano will provide an insightful and engaging evening of the work in progress with a look under the hood at the music, visuals and artistic ingenuity devoted to building English with an Accent thus far.
Migguel Anggelo: A First Look at English with an Accent features three first-cut videos from the artist’s forthcoming series of short films.
• Directed and Choreographed by Sarah O’Gleby
• Conceived band performed by Migguel Anggelo
• Executive Creative Producer and Production Design by David Stark
• Music and Lyrics by Migguel Anggelo
• Musical Supervision, Arrangements and Music Production by Jaime Lozano
• Dancers: Akina Kitazawa, Cajai Fellows Johnson, Jōvan Dansberry, Marc Heitzman, Ricardo Zayas, Robin Masella
• Director of Photography: Louis Zieja
• Edited by Cory Bruce
• Costumes Designed by Ryan Park
• Hair Designed by Lindsay Block
• Makeup Designed by Rafael German
• Sound Design by Nectar Sound Drops:
– Supervising Sound Editor and Mix: Gerardo Villarreal
– Sound Designer: Erik Trujillo
– Sound Editor: Martin Cabrera
• Musicians:
– Bass: Demián Cantú
– Drums: Javier Garagarza
– Guitars: Pavel Cal
– Percussion: Dayron Cartas
– Piano and Programming: Jaime Lozano
– Backup Vocals: Roke MD
• Music Mixed by Demián Cantú at La Casita Recording Studio

Migguel Anggelo is a Venezuelan-born and Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist. His work explores the intersections of queer, Latino and immigration identities, as well as the role of the artist in contemporary society. Anggelo is a 2020/2021 Resident Artist of the NY Presenters Consortium and was previously a Joe’s Pub Working Group resident in 2019. As a musician, Migguel Anggelo has released two albums (Dónde Estara Matisse and La Casa Azul); as a theater artist, has been awarded residencies to develop new works at MASS MoCA, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, PA and BRIC in Brooklyn, NY. He has been a feature artist in such festivals as LPAC’s Rough Draft and Provincetown’s Afterglow and has served as a cultural attaché, under the auspices of the U.S. State Department, in two separate ten-city tours of Russia.
In 2020, Migguel Anggelo released the short film Maid in America as part of National Queer Theater’s Criminal Queerness Festival. He has also personally developed and toured LatinXoxo (2018-2019), a piece which peels back onion layers of personas, “Latin lover” clichés and reckons with the tragic death of his homophobic father. Other work developed by Anggelo includes So Close: Love and Hate (2017), Another Son of Venezuela (2016-2015) and Welcome to La Misa, Baby (2016-2019).

Uncharted: Shaina Taub
2021-05-20 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Shaina Taub
Songs of the Great Hill
Streaming on Joe’s Pub Live!
May 20th, 8:00 p.m.

Shaina Taub — the fast-rising musical theater creator and performer, most recently of the forthcoming Suffragist at The Public Theater and The Devil Wears Prada with composer Sir Elton John on Broadway – will debut Songs of the Great Hill, a fully-produced, streaming concert premiere of new music created during quarantine by Taub (vocals, piano, accordion) and presented with her friends and bandmates Mike Brun (bass/guitar), Hiroyuki Matsuura (drums), David Farrell Melton (keyboards/organ), and Kuhoo Verma and Sylver Wallace (backing vocals).
As summer turned to fall in quarantine, Taub took solace in a daily walk on the Great Hill in Central Park, trying to face the unrelenting surreality of the year — “This other great hill we’ve all been trudging up.” The view from that higher ground inspired Taub to sit down at the piano every day. “I just wanted to see what came out: all the messy grief, uncertainty, hard-won joy, some stories I’ve been meaning to tell for years, others that appeared completely by surprise.”
“I’ve been in a lengthy creative stretch of making musical theater, which is necessarily focused on character and structure,” says Taub. “So these are the first songs I’ve written in a long time that were sparked from the impulse of music rather than words.”
There will be a virtual tip jar to accompany this performance, with all proceeds going to the Alliance for Quality Education.

Shaina Taub is an Emmy-nominated songwriter and performer. A winner of the Kleban Prize, the Fred Ebb Award and the Jonathan Larson Grant, Taub is an artist-in-residence at the Public Theater, where she has a regular concert residency at Joe’s Pub. She’s currently writing lyrics for the upcoming Broadway musical The Devil Wears Prada, with music by Sir Elton John, as well as Suffragist, a new musical about American women’s fight for the vote. She created and starred in critically acclaimed musical adaptations of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and As You Like It that were commissioned and produced by the Public Theater at the Delacorte in Central Park as part of their groundbreaking community-based program, Public Works. Those adaptations have now been produced in London, Seattle, Dallas and beyond. She has released two solo albums and recently signed with Atlantic Records.
Taub starred in the New York re-mounting of the Signature Theatre’s hit production of Bill Irwin and David Shiner’s Old Hats, featuring her original songs. She appeared in the original Off-Broadway productions of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 and Hadestown, and has performed her music in concert at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series and with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. Taub writes songs for Sesame Street, is an NYCLU Artist Ambassador and a member of the Resistance Revival Chorus.

Online OpeningTeapot: The Allan Buitekant Collection
2021-05-21 17:00 - 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Teapot: The Allan Buitekant Collection
Opening Reception | Friday, May 21, 2021 | 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through June 18, 2021
Join us for the online opening reception of Teapot: The Allan Buitekant Collection.
This event is free and open to the public.
Read more about the exhibition here.

Teapot: The Allan Buitekant Collection
2021-05-21 17:00 - 2021-06-18 17:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Teapot: The Allan Buitekant Collection
Opening Reception | Friday, May 21, 2021 | 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through June 18, 2021
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of teapots from the late Allan Buitekant’s collection. Buitekant was a long-time supporter of Greenwich House Pottery, setting up the Allan Buitekant Fund for Ceramic Art and Inquiry to support GHP’s Residency and Fellowship Program. This collection of handmade teapots represents Buitekant’s years of collecting and his interest in Yixing teapots. Made out of clay from deposits around Lake Tai in China since the 16th century, Yixing teapots are prized for their fine craftsmanship and for the way their clay enhances the flavor of brewed tea. Most collectors brew only a single type of tea in each pot to fully take advantage of this benefit. Buitekant passed away in July 2012, survived by his life partner Joyce Cunningham who has donated this collection in his honor to continue his passion for supporting emerging ceramic artists.

Allan Buitekant was born in the Bronx, New York City in 1933. He was one of a small group of art directors and writers at the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency in New York City who revolutionized advertising in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to his work in advertising, Buitekant was also a potter and a collector. He studied ceramics in the evenings at Parson’s School of Design, at the 92nd St. Y with Byron Temple, at Greenwich House Pottery with Jim Crumrine, and at the Brooklyn Museum with Jolyn Hofstead. After his illustrious career as an advertising art director in New York City, he retired to North Carolina to pursue his interest in ceramics. Buitekant was also avidly interested in the bonsai tradition, and was a student of the great bonsai master, Yuji Yoshimura. His collection of bonsai currently resides at The New York Botanical Garden.

All pieces are available for sale to benefit Greenwich House Pottery.
Browse this collection through our online store here.

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

Meet the Director
2021-05-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Join us over Zoom on May 26 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. to get to know GHP’s new Director, Fabio J. Fernández.
Fabio J. Fernández is an artist, arts advocate, educator, and arts administrator. He is the former Executive Director of the Society of Arts + Crafts in Boston where he led the organization through a pivotal time in its long and venerable history. He also served as the Exhibitions Director at the Society and as Associate Curator at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Fernández has planned and executed national exhibitions that presented fresh explorations into the conceptual, technical, and material approaches of contemporary makers. He serves as a Trustee of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. Fernández has been a visiting critic at universities around the world and has served as a juror on numerous grant panels. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Seton Hall University in New Jersey.

Uncharted: Haig Papazian
2021-05-27 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Haig Papazian
Space Time Tuning Machine pt. 1
Streaming on Joe’s Pub Live!
May 27th, 8:00 p.m.

Haig Papazian — the Lebanese-Armenian violinist, founding member of the influential band Mashrou’ Leila, architect and multi-disciplinary artist — will premiere selections from the first phase of his new solo work, Space Time Tuning Machine (STTM), a cross-disciplinary musical narrative exploring the multifaceted meanings of home.
STTM begins with an early music memory of Papazian’s, where his mother was singing a traditional song about a dislocated wanderer serenading a crane lost in migration. That folk song had become adopted as a metaphor for the plight and suffering of the Armenian people in the years following the genocide of 1915. STTM reimagines that song through the story of a wandering troubadour who tries to rebuild the scattered pieces of his broken instrument into a machine that will guide his way home. The work is a fractured musical adventure that stretches across time and space, violent histories and reclaimed futures: a military drone disguised as a migrating bird malfunctions and follows a flock of cranes, a troubadour awakens within the mind of an opera singer, the ghost of an Armenian musicologist demands the rights to a song he never wrote. All these characters are connected by a desire for refuge after having their concept of home altered.
Throughout the start of 2021, Papazian has turned his home at Westbeth Artist Housing into a musical laboratory, collecting scrap electronics and hacking old musical instruments to build bespoke instrumentation for the performance of STTM. “Ultimately,” Haig continues, “when it is safe to do so, I want to turn my home into a literal music vessel, to make this project an experiential work by inviting artists and spectators to visit the space as I improvise and negotiate both what it means to make a home and how this story can be told. In that way, this piece is an attempt to merge my creative and personal lives very publicly and collaboratively.”
Haig is developing Space Time Tuning Machine as part of his one year residency with SHIM:NYC (Safe Haven Incubator for Musicians: NYC).

Haig Papazian is a Lebanese-Armenian multidisciplinary artist, composer, and architect born in Beirut and currently based out of New York. He is a founding member and violinist of Mashrou’ Leila, the Lebanese band whose electro-pop anthems about political freedom, race, gender and modern Arabic identity have challenged the status quo of the Middle-Eastern music industry. An architect by training, Haig participated in the inaugural edition of the Home Workspace program in Beirut and completed his graduate studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. His visual work explores narratives of undocumented histories and reclaimed futures. Papazian’s art has been presented in Sharjah, Beirut, Bonn, London, Trondheim and New York. Haig is a SHIM:NYC 2021 resident – a residency program created by Artistic Freedom Initiative, Tamizdat, and Westbeth Artist Housing – and a 2021 New York Voices Commission recipient from Joe’s Pub.
As a member of Mashrou’ Leila, Haig has performed at sold out venues and festivals around the world. The band has recently collaborated with MIKA, Hercules and Love Affair, Yo-Yo Ma and Joe Goddard from Hot Chip. Papazian has been an artist in residence at NYU, campaigned with Greenpeace in an initiative to promote solar energy and participated in the BLOCK 9 & BANKSY Creative Retreat alongside fellow musicians Brian Eno and Roisin Murphy. Papazian has held public talks at NYU, Columbia University, Concordia, Dartmouth College and Sciences Po in Paris. Prior to the pandemic, he performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as part of Oliver Beer’s Vessel Orchestra. Some of his recently published writings include the NYT op-ed “The Cost of being Queer and Arab” and his essay “Beyrouth et Beyrouth, travail en cours/Beirut and Beirut: work in progress” in France Culture.

Uncharted: Zawadi Noël
2021-06-03 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Photo by Omari McIntosh
Zawadi Noël
Inside Voice
Streaming on Joe’s Pub Live!
June 3rd, 8:00 p.m.

Zawadi Noël will join with collaborators Tatsuya Sakurai (guitar) and Bryn Bliska (keys) for the premiere of Inside Voice. “This music was my response to the intense introspection that accompanied the start of the pandemic,” says Noël. “Finding community and comfort in shared experiences helped me cope then and continues to do so now. By sharing this music, I hope to pay that comfort forward and share my solace and joy with others.” Both in spirit and in sound, Inside Voice continues Zawadi’s musical journey as an optimistically soulful preacher of tolerance, self-actualization and gentle uplift.

Zawadi Noël is an independent singer/songwriter/composer from Washington D.C. A child of the 80’s, born to parents who loved Motown and everything Stevie Wonder, Zawadi’s music often takes the form of a fusion of dance synth, warm acoustic melodies and soul-filled lyrics. When asked to define his music in a single word, Zawadi chooses “joy”. The focus of his music and message is simple: to unite, to heal and strengthen, to celebrate. The style of his songs may change from show to show but the message remains the same. As a first generation American, a member of the LGBTQ+ community and an educator and activist, Zawadi creates music intended to diversify and fortify the musical landscape.

Financial Aid Application Due
2021-06-04 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Financial Aid applications for the summer term are due.
For more information, visit the Financial Aid section of our website.

Uncharted: Riley Mulherkar
2021-06-10 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Photo by Theo Bleckmann
Riley Mulherkar
And Now
Streaming on Joe’s Pub Live!
June 10th, 8:00 p.m.

Riley Mulherkar — a founder of the acclaimed brass quartet The Westerlies and a regular collaborator with such luminaries as Wynton Marsalis, Anna Deavere Smith, Theo Bleckmann and Alan Cumming — will be premiering multiple songs from his forthcoming debut solo album, as well as new arrangements of works by George Gershwin and Hoagy Carmichael. He will be joined onstage by a combo that will include the producer of his new album, pianist Chris Pattishall. Though he has been working as a professional musician for over a decade, this will be the first recording Mulherkar has released solely under his own name.

Riley Mulherkar has been recognized as a “smart young trumpet player” by The New York Times, praised by The Wall Street Journal as a “youngster to keep an eye on,” and is a 2020 recipient of Lincoln Center’s Emerging Artist Award for his work as “an original bandleader, composer, arranger, educator, community activist and advocate for jazz and the arts.” He is a founding member of The Westerlies, a new music brass quartet that creates the rarest of hybrids: music that is both “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” (NPR Music). Riley also serves as Artistic Director for Jazz at Joye in Aiken, bringing leading young talent to the historic city of Aiken, South Carolina. Born and raised in Seattle, Riley moved to New York in 2010 to study at The Juilliard School, where he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in 2014 and his Master’s in 2015. In 2014, he was the first recipient of the Laurie Frink Career Grant at the Festival of New Trumpet Music. Riley is actively engaged in educational initiatives, directing the Summer Advanced Institute at Seattle JazzEd and serving as an ambassador for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Jazz for Young People” program in New York and St. Louis from 2016 to 2018. Riley is an Edwards Artist and performs on Edwards trumpets.

Summer Registration Begins
2021-06-14 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Summer registration begins today!
Learn what we have to offer on the Classes page of our website or sign up through our Registration page.

Uncharted: Ella Bric
2021-06-17 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Ella Bric (Linda Briceño): Present Sounds
Streaming on Joe’s Pub Live!
June 17th, 8:00 p.m.

Linda Briceño — trumpeter, vocalist and Latin Grammy-award winning producer — will premiere Present Sounds, a fully-produced streaming concert debuting a set of new folk, jazz and Afro-Latin music in the guise of her frontwoman alter ego Ella Bric. The set will feature tracks from Briceño’s as-yet-to-be-released debut album performed with her band, featuring Justin Goldner (bass, guitar), Jordan Peters (guitar), David Alastre (piano, vocals), Daniel Prim and Luisito Quintero (percussion), Gabrielle Garo (flute) and special appearance by the vocalist and poet Andrea Tierra.
Present Sounds explores issues of immigration, the personal history of American immigrants and newly orchestrated renditions of the work of Latin American writers, including the Peruvian poet Victoria Santa Cruz. The performance is a celebration of pan-Latin cultural heritage, utilizing different musical genres to tell stories that will resonate among Latino and non-Latino audiences alike.

Two-time Latin Grammy Award-winning producer Linda Briceño is an increasingly respected voice in the Central American music scene, especially following her 2018 Producer of the Year win in the Latin Grammys, making her that award’s inaugural female recipient. Though she’s best known on the other side of the microphone, Briceño had a memorable year of live performance in 2019, when she shared the stage with Alejandro Sanz at Madison Square Garden and performed a memorable tribute to Pharrell Williams at the Parsons Gala. Spurred by those successes, Briceño is stepping forward for the first time as a frontwoman with the intent of applying her considerable musical experience to a project where she can experiment with R&B, trap, folk, Afro-Latin and jazz from within the performing persona of Ella Bric. Following a 2020 that saw Briceño qualify as a finalist in the Rolex Mentor-Protégé program and explore a collaboration with the director and producer Lin-Manuel Miranda, the sky’s the limit for this rising star.

Juneteenth Jubilee
2021-06-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
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Sign Up to Glaze
2021-06-22 - 2021-08-13 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States

Spring Term Ends
2021-06-26 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States

GHP Closed for Interterm Recess
2021-06-27 - 2021-07-05 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP’s Spring Term ends on June 26. Summer Term begins on July 6, 2021.
GHP is closed for Interterm Recess from June 27 through July 5, 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.

GenSpeak: An Evening of Original Plays and Songs
2021-06-28 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in collaboration with
Greenwich House Music School and Greenwich House Senior Centers Presents
GenSpeak
An evening of original plays and songs
GenSpeak is a collaboration between Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre, Greenwich House Music School, and the Greenwich House Senior Centers. GenSpeak partnered young theatre artists with members of Greenwich House Senior Centers for conversations and interviews online. The artists then created new work inspired by those conversations that were directed and performed by some of New York’s finest actors. We hope these new plays speak across generations and to this time in particular.
This project was made possible by the generous support of the JP McManus Fund.
THE PROCESS:
Isolation and disruption to social life has been a common thread throughout the pandemic. Older adults have felt this isolation keenly across the world, losing opportunities to share space and time with family and friends. Theatre artists, whose very medium is meant to bring people together in time and space, have also been isolated and challenged to find meaningful ways to work. GenSpeak came out of the desire to spark connection, and create something new with both older adults and theatre artists.
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater identified five artists and recent graduates of the NYU Playwriting Program and the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program interested in the intergenerational creative processes. Greenwich House reached out to Senior Center members with an invitation to share their stories and experiences in order to create something new.
The artists met with the older adults in small cohorts, getting to know each other and exploring various themes. Each cohort created their own process and the results are as varied as the participants and artists themselves. While some pieces use quotes and lines written by participants, others are wholly original plays inspired by the conversations and relationships that grew out of this project.

Meiasha Gray Artist Talk
2021-06-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Meiasha Gray will give a talk about the project she worked on during her fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery.

Gray is a New York City-based artist who works primarily in ceramics and performance art. In her work, Gray is interested in the ephemeral—one of the reasons she is drawn to clay as a material—and in the domestication of space.
Gray has a BFA from Sierra Nevada College. Gray has shown her work at the Holland Project Gallery (Reno, NV; 2019), the Tahoe Gallery at Sierra Nevada College (Incline Village, NV; 2018), the California Ceramic Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts (Davis, CA; 2106-17), and Capital City Arts Initiative (Carson City, NV; 2016-17). She has been a resident artist at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass, CO; 2019). Gray is currently a studio assistant for Simone Leigh.
During her fellowship, Gray developed a body of work that integrates other media, including photographs, into her clay practice.

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

Summer Term 2021 Begins
2021-07-06 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Summer term at Greenwich House Pottery begins!
For more information, visit the Classes section of our website.

Online OpeningCeramics Now, Trisha Baga, Dolores Furtado, Trevor King
2021-07-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Dolores Furtado, Magic, ceramic, 18” x 21” x 8”, 2020. Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Ceramics Now
Trisha Baga, Dolores Furtado, Trevor King
Opening Reception | Friday, July 9, 2021 | 5:00 p.m.

The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present work by our 2020 fellows and artists in residence: Trisha Baga, Dolores Furtado, and Trevor King. 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 work in ceramics in the center of the art world.
Join us for the online opening reception of Ceramics Now on July 9 at 5:00 p.m. to hear more about the projects Baga, Furtado, and King worked on during their residencies.
Read more about the exhibition here.

Ceramics Now, Trisha Baga, Dolores Furtado, Trevor King
2021-07-09 17:00 - 2021-08-06 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Dolores Furtado, install view from “Ceramics Now” 2021
Ceramics Now
Trisha Baga, Dolores Furtado, Trevor King
Opening Reception | Friday, July 9, 2021 | 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through August 6, 2021
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present work by our 2020 fellows and artists in residence: Trisha Baga, Dolores Furtado, and Trevor King. 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 work in ceramics in the center of the art world.

Trisha Baga is a New York-City based artist who works in Stereoscopic 3D video installation, clay, consumer grade electronics, and community performance. For Baga, working in a variety of media is an optimistic metaphor for the power of diversity writ large, as he strives to unearth emotional histories and critically engage with contemporary image culture. During his residency, Baga continued to experiment with throwing on the wheel and developing a series of clay sculptures with embedded electronics.

Dolores Furtado is a New York City-based sculptor who creates work that focuses on materiality. She uses technical research and experimentation to create forms that expose the unique qualities of her materials, and views her sculptures as the documentation of process and action. During her residency, Furtado developed a series of medium-scale ceramic sculptures based on her previous experiments casting paper pulp. This was Furtado’s first foray into working with clay.

Trevor King is a New York City-based multimedia artist. 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, sometimes including interviews and personal archives in his work. During his fellowship, King made an impressionistic documentary video that tells the story of Greenwich House Pottery and its community.

Images: © Alan Wiener, courtesy Greenwich House Pottery 2021

GHP Closed
2021-07-11 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP is closed on Sundays during the summer.
On select Sundays (July 18, July 25, August 1, and August 8) the Pottery will be closed except for the Summer Sampler classes. Pre-registration required.
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.

At A Certain Pace by Trevor King by Trevor King
2021-07-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Greenwich House Pottery—At A Certain Pace
Trevor King
Film Screening | Thursday, July 15, 2021 | 4:00 p.m.
Second Screening | Wednesday, July 21 | 5:00 p.m.

Greenwich House Pottery is pleased to present a screening of artist Trevor King’s, “Greenwich House Pottery – At a Certain Pace” at the IFC Center in the West Village.
Filmed during November and December, 2020, “At a Certain Pace” observes the endurance and poetry of Greenwich House Pottery and its community. King was a 2020 fellow at GHP. During his fellowship, King filmed daily life at the studio and conducted interviews with staff, students, and other affiliated artists. The result is a sensitive video portrait that serves as a time capsule, capturing the textures, characters, and personality of the pottery in this challenging and defining moment.
Trevor King will give a short introduction prior to the start of the film. Please arrive half an hour early for seating.
This screening is in conjunction with GHP’s Ceramics Now exhibition, on view in the Jane Hartsook Gallery July 9 through August 6, 2021. Read more about the exhibition here.
Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $15 to $50. Proceeds go to the artist and to support the Pottery.

Rachel Farmer Artist Talk
2021-08-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Rachel Farmer will give a talk about the project she worked on during her fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery.
Rachel Farmer is an artist who uses ceramics and quilts to re-examine histories that get passed down through families, institutions, and pop culture—such as the mythology of the American West, and the artist’s own Mormon pioneer ancestry—with a queer, feminist bent.
Farmer has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Brigham Young University. She has had a number of exhibitions, including at: Granary Arts (Ephraim, UT; 2018), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY; 2017), and A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY; 2013). Farmer has been an artist in residence at Brush Creek Arts and the Museum of Arts and Design.
During her summer fellowship, Farmer continued a body of work she has been making that features miniature sculptures of pioneer women in action in diorama-like scenes that question the dominant narratives of the American West.

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

Summer Term Ends
2021-08-13 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States

GHP Closed for Interterm Recess
2021-08-14 - 2021-09-12 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP’s Summer Term ends on August 13. Fall Term begins on September 13, 2021.
GHP is closed for Interterm Recess from August 14 through September 12, 2021.
For more information, visit Pottery Notes or the Current Students section of our website.
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Ceramic Sidewalk Sale
2021-08-21 11:00 - 16:00 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Need a new piece of artwork to spice up your living room? Looking for the perfect wedding gift? Stop by the Pottery this weekend to browse handmade ceramics priced to sell. You’ll also have a chance to watch live wheel throwing and handbuilding demonstrations by Pottery faculty, staff, and community members. This event is presented in conjunction with New York City’s Homecoming Week.
All works for sale were generously donated by members of the Greenwich House Pottery community and proceeds directly benefit GHP’s operations.
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.

Financial Aid Application Deadline
2021-08-22 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Today is the last day to submit your application for financial aid for a GHP class.
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Negoro, Kari Marboe and Sequoia Miller
2021-08-27 09:00 - 2021-09-24 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Install view, Negoro exhibition. Greenwich House Pottery, 2021. Image: © Alan Wiener, courtesy Greenwich House Pottery 2021
Negoro
Kari Marboe & Sequoia Miller
Online Artist Talk & Opening Reception | Friday, September 17, 2021 | 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view August 27 through September 24, 2021
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present a collaborative exhibition that seeks to generate fresh perspectives, questions, and engagement with the underrepresented ceramic artist Minnie Negoro (1919–1998). This exhibition brings together, for the first time, new sculpture by Kari Marboe, writing by Sequoia Miller, archival ephemera, and works by Minnie Negoro from the Greenwich House Pottery permanent collection and Mills College Art Museum.

In this exhibition, Marboe and Miller use the historic record to engage with Negoro from their different fields of expertise: Marboe as an artist making response artworks to Negoro’s history, forms, and feminism; and Miller as a studio potter turned art historian writing about her life. Marboe first learned about Negoro while doing research in GHP’s archives during her 2019 residency, and Miller has written about her throughout his career as an art historian. Both were compelled by Negoro’s artistic trajectory—studying at UCLA, being relocated to the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming because of her Japanese heritage, teaching and showing at GHP, showing in MoMA’s famous Good Design exhibition (1950–1951, 1951–1952), and establishing the ceramics program at University of Connecticut. Through this exhibition, Marboe and Miller seek to engage with Negoro through their separate media—clay and writing—to encourage another generation of makers to learn from her work.

Kari Marboe is a Bay Area artist and an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. Marboe’s work engages communities with each other and with the past by delving into archives and presenting response works in ceramics, photography, and silkscreened clay. Her research-based ceramic works have been presented at Mills College Art Museum (Oakland, CA; 2019), The Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco, CA; 2017), and Wave Pool Gallery (Cincinnati, OH; 2016). She has been a resident artist at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Newcastle, ME).

Sequoia Miller is a historian, curator, and studio potter. He holds a PhD in the History of Art from Yale University, and an MA from the Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. As a potter, Miller studied at GHP with Michael Simon, Bruce Winn, and Matt Nolen and later joined as faculty from 2011-2012. Miller re-entered academia after more than a decade as a full-time studio potter. His recent curatorial projects include RAW and Ai Weiwei: Unbroken at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Canada where he is currently the Chief Curator & Deputy Director.

Images: © Alan Wiener, courtesy Greenwich House Pottery 2021

Registration Opens
2021-08-29 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP 2021-2022 registration begins today!
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