Live Taping of For Flux Sake Podcast!

by | Apr 1, 2022 | events

For Flux Sake is a great podcast for Ceramic artists who want to talk tech stuff or need help with glaze and material challenges. They’re going to be hosting a live event in April. Should be fun!

For Flux Sake is a podcast that Matt and Rose co-host with Kathy King to answer your burning questions about clay and glaze. Each episode presents listener-submitted questions that are answered in a comical, but also insightful way. This show will have you laughing and learning about the chemistry behind ceramics in no time.

Register HERE.

For more info on For Flux Sake podcast click here.

Online classes and workshops @ Harvard

by | Jan 11, 2021 | workshops

The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard is offering a range of online classes and workshops for spring 2021.
Registration for these programs is open to anyone over the age of 18, anywhere in the world. Choose from more than 20 different topics to explore from home, including hand building, flameware, sculpting from observation, bookmaking, experimental photography on clay, glaze chemistry, tile design, and much, much more!

Visit the Ceramics Program website for details and a list of current classes and workshops [https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics/courses]

Ceramic Materials Workshop: Free online glaze course for teachers moving to a digital classroom

by | Mar 12, 2020 | technical tuesday

CMW is offering free online content, for all educators who are moving to online platforms for the remainder of the semester. Many schools are asking their faculty to move to an online format for the remainder of the term. This is leaving many studio art educators to scramble to figure out how to teach ceramics, online.

Hopefully we can offer you a little breathing room. We are providing our online workshop “Glaze of Our Lives”, for free to your students.
Glaze of Our Lives, is a series of of 23, online recorded lectures, explaining how and why glazes work. This is our online workshop, designed for students of all levels, from beginners on up. We start at the beginning and, go through materials, heat, cones, temperature, chemistry, colorants, glaze flaws, and that is just the beginning. It is over 12 hours of content, to give your students a new powerful perspective on materials and glazes.

How this works?

Contact us at info (at) ceramicmaterialsworkshop.com with your .edu email address and we’ll get you set up. Or visit ceramicmaterialsworkshop.com for more information and a preview video of one of the lectures.

Please share this info with other educators who may be interested.

Have you always wanted to know how glazes REALLY work?

by | Jun 8, 2017 | technical tuesday

 

 

Online Glaze Calculation Course!

Understanding our glazes is the most powerful thing we can do to make our work our own.
Yet how many of us really understand how our glazes work?

Ceramic Materials Workshop is here to help.
You can take our world renowned glaze calculation classes online, right now.
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Designed for ceramicists of all levels, our Glaze Calculation courses will change your studio FOREVER.

​After years of teaching ceramic materials courses in a traditional classroom lecture, Matt Katz developed and designed the Ceramic Materials Workshop specifically for online educational access. These innovative courses have proved highly successful; student evaluations consistently praised Matt for his knowledge of ceramic materials and their applications and applauded him for his concise and personable presentation of challenging technical content. The online format proved exceptionally conducive to robust group interaction and discussion. I highly recommend these classes.


-Anne Currier, Professor Emerita,
​Alfred University

Watch a Sample Lecture:

Full details and sign up here.