Teachers' Teachers
Session 3 | July 13–25
Ledger of Locating Myself by Nicole Seisler, 2023. Terracotta, stoneware, porcelain, screws, 40" x 240" x 6".
In this workshop, participants are expected to be teaching artists and will be invited to exchange and generate new approaches to ceramic education that underscore the metaphoric and conceptual potential of clay. Studio time will include making work, inventing exercises, critiquing existing structures, plotting new courses, and becoming students of our own curriculum. We will experiment with the productive potential of entwining making and teaching. Participants should be teaching artists (at any level, for a minimum of one year) who are invested in non-traditional approaches to ceramics.
Nicole Seisler (she/her) is constantly innovating ceramic curriculum and reimagining how pedagogy takes form. She has exhibited her work at museums ranging from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL and Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles, CA. She has taught ceramics for over a decade at universities including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Scripps College, Chaffey College, and University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently Assistant Professor and Head of Ceramics at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Seisler is the Founder and Director of A-B Projects, a global hub for contemporary, critical, conceptual ceramics.