Uncharted: Riley Mulherkar
2021-06-10 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

Ceramic Sidewalk Sale
2021-05-01 10:00 - 16:00 | 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.

GHP Artist Exhibition Opening
2021-04-16 17:00 - 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Join us on Friday, April 16 at 5:00 p.m. for an online opening to celebrate our 2021 GHP Artist Exhibition.
This exhibition showcases the artistic range of GHP’s makers, each of whom uses the Pottery’s extensive resources to express their own creative voice in clay. This year’s exhibition will be particularly unique, as it brings together work made by our community during a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Work in this exhibition was made at kitchen counters and living rooms, as well as the GHP studios, as our clay community navigated this difficult, socially-distanced year virtually and in-person. Read more here.

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

GHP Artist Exhibition 2021
2021-04-09 09:30 - 2021-04-30 17:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP Artist Exhibition
Online Opening Reception | Friday, April 16, 2021 | 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view April 9 – 30, 2021
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition recognizing the distinguished artists who contribute to the Greenwich House Pottery community. This exhibition showcases the artistic range of GHP’s makers, each of whom uses the Pottery’s extensive resources to express their own creative voice in clay. This year’s exhibition will be particularly unique, as it brings together work made by our community during a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Work in this exhibition was made at kitchen counters and living rooms, as well as the GHP studios, while our clay community navigated this difficult, socially-distanced year virtually and in-person.
GHP is the oldest non-profit in the country dedicated to the inquiry and advancement of the ceramic arts. Key to the development of technical skills and innovation, GHP provides an all-encompassing educational program for over 1260 students in a typical year. Artists and students learn from professional faculty and staff proficient in a range of topics from wheel throwing, hand-building and mold-making to glaze chemistry and slip casting. GHP also hosts workshops and lectures by leading ceramic artists from around the country as well as offering teens and children the opportunity to work in clay through Greenwich House’s Afterschool Program. The artists in this exhibition represent the continuous achievement, exploration and passion for ceramic arts that GHP has fostered for over 117 years.
Download the press release here.
Watch the exhibition install video here.
GHP Students can vote for the Student Choice Award here.

GHP Closed for Interterm Recess
2021-03-30 - 2021-04-04 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
GHP’s Winter Term ends on March 29. Spring Term begins on April 5, 2021.
GHP is closed for Interterm Recess from March 30 through April 4, 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.

Heidi Lau Artist Talk
2021-03-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Heidi Lau will give a talk about the project she worked on during her fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery.
Lau is a New York City-based artist who grew up in Macau. Her primary materials are paper and ceramic. In her research-based work, Lau explores nostalgia, memory, and the creation of history. Taoist cosmology influences much of her work, as do folk superstitions and Macau’s colonial history. Lau is particularly interested in burial chambers as a transitional space in which a body teeters between personhood and objecthood.
Lau has a BFA from New York University. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Venice Biennale (Italy; 2019), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (NY; 2017), Macao Museum of Art (China; 2014), and Museum of Chinese in America (New York, NY; 2016). Lau has received a number of awards, including the Colene Brown Art Prize (2019), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2015) and the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship (2014). She has held residencies, including at CSULB Center for Contemporary Ceramics (2020), the Joan Mitchell Center (2018), the Museum of Arts and Design (2017), and the Center for Book Arts (2014), among others.
During her fellowship, Lau created a multi-part vessel for the W.O.W Project and a series of large-scale sculptural fountains inspired by the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 – 210 B.C.) in Xian, China. Though the mausoleum is most famously known for the terracotta warriors surrounding it, Lau took inspiration for her project from the pools of mercury that historical accounts and archeological research indicate surround the main section of the as-yet unopened tomb.

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

Online Artist Talk and Opening Where is the Bike Shop?, Taili Wu
2021-02-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Where is the Bike Shop?
Taili Wu
Online Artist Talk & Opening | Friday, February 26, 2021 | 5:00 p.m.

Taili Wu will be giving an online artist talk in conjunction with her solo exhibition Where is the Bike Shop? 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.

Financial Aid Application Due
2021-02-23 | Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Financial Aid applications for the spring term are due.
For more information, visit the Financial Aid section of our website.

Where is the Bike Shop?, Taili Wu
2021-02-19 17:00 - 2021-03-19 18:00 | Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Where is the Bike Shop?
Taili Wu
Online Opening and Artist Talk | Friday, February 26, 2021 | 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view February 19 through March 19, 2021

The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present Taili Wu’s New York City solo-show debut, Where is the Bike Shop? In her art practice, Wu brings a fresh eye to daily life, sculpting in a whimsical style that is influenced by her work in animation and computer art. In this body of work, she brings an array of “bike people” together from around the world. Originally inspired by the goose farmer, ice cream man, and maltose vendor of her childhood—all of whom got around by bicycle—Wu has included bike people and stories from India to the United States in this show.
Taili Wu was born in Taichung, Taiwan and is currently based out of New York. She earned her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in computer art and her BFA from Taipei Municipal University of Education in art education and education. She works in ceramics, stop-motion animation, and mixed media. Wu’s short films have been shown at Slamdance Film Festival (CA; 2010) and the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany; 2009), among others. Her ceramic work has been shown at Creators Space (St. Paul, MN; 2019); EarthworksNYC (New York, NY; 2019) and Kolva-Sullivan Gallery (Spokane, WA; 2018), among others. Wu was an artist in residence at Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT) in 2018.

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

Love, NYC - A Virtual Concert with The Little Mozart Foundation
2021-02-12 16:00 - 17:00 | NY
Join Greenwich House Music School for a special free Valentine’s Day concert! Click here to watch.
This concert is being produced in partnership with Little Mozart Foundation for our friends at the Family Justice Center, Sanctuary for Families, and Little Essentials.
The NYC Family Justice Centers connect New Yorkers with free and confidential assistance for victims and survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. Sanctuary for Families helps create a path to safety with 24/7 access to resources and support. Little Essentials offers support to at-risk families living in poverty, focusing on the wellbeing and safety of children under age 5. The Love, NYC concert is a small way to honor and support those families.

Trevor King Artist Talk
2021-01-29 17:00 - 18:00 | 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.
Watch Here:

“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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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.
