Upcoming Events
Kathy King:
Sgraffito & Narrative
Sunday, February 8th, 2026
10 AM - 4 PM
The technique of sgraffito has a long history in ceramics yet is a lively and popular technique today. Sgraffito involves covering a clay surface with a contrasting slip or underglaze and carving through to reveal the clay color underneath. Kathy has used this technique in her work for more than 25 years to express personal narrative and identity and to tell stories, often with humor. Using porcelain or a non-grog white clay, participants will explore and build their own vocabulary of imagery that can be used on both sculptural and functional forms. Kathy will share an array of tips and tricks on how to transfer images, what tools to use, and will discuss how King glazes her work with tinted, clear glazes. All levels are welcome but basic clay skills are helpful.
Kathy King is an active studio artist in the Boston area and is an Instructor and the Director of the Ceramics Program and Visual Arts Initiatives at the Office for the Arts at Harvard. Before relocating to the Boston area in 2008, she served as an Associate Professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. She has held positions as a Visiting Faculty member at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, MA. Her undergraduate work included the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, and she received her BA in Studio Art with a major in Ceramics from Connecticut College, New London, CT in 1990. She received her MFA from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, in 1998.
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Kathy has given workshops and lectures at over eighty-five colleges, schools, and art centers throughout the USA. The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts featured King as an Emerging Artist in 1999, a Demonstrating Artist in 2002, a co-juror with Mark Burns for the 2012 National Student Juried Show, and a lecturer and panelist on multiple occasions. In 2018, she was awarded a Brother Thomas Fellowship by the Boston Foundation in Boston, MA, and was a nominee again in 2021. She was awarded a Craft Schools US Residency to the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Center, as well as other residencies, including the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana and the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine. Her work can also be found in numerous publications and periodicals, including Ceramics: Art and Perception, Studio Potter, Clay Times, Art Papers, and Ceramics Monthly. She has served on the Board of Directors of Studio Potter and hosts the podcast “For Flux Sake" with Matt and Rose Katz. She served on the Board of (POW) Pots on Wheels, Studio Potter Journal and the Collections Committee for the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA. Learn more on King’s website.
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February 8th
Indigo Fire Watertown
$85
Fionnuala Hart Gerrity
February 21st, 2026
Our last fungi-focused workshop with Fionnuala sold out, so here is another chance to learn how you might incorporate mushrooms into your own work!
By day, Fionnuala cares for all things paper in the Harvard libraries, but in the evenings they turn their attention to all things nature- tree barks, lichen, fungi, and the tiny buggy creatures who live among the flora!
This workshop will teach handbuilding and sculpting techniques, as well as some mycological tidbits!
Great for all skill levels- feel free to bring your own greenware to fungify!
February 21st
10 AM - 4 PM
$75
All materials included, some handbuilding tools suggested