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	Ceramics Workshops

SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE Site Vessels lecture and workshop, September 8-12, 2003 In Nancy Selvage's workshop, Site Vessels, participants will develop a visual language for communicating their response to a specific place through exploratory considerations of imagery, form, and material. The remarkable geological and cultural forces that have shaped the Santa Fe environment will inform and infuse our working process. Working with clays and/or other materials, participants will create objects or installations that are sculptural and/or functional. Participants may choose to work in response to a location that we will explore together, or in response to a pre-selected environment from which they should bring materials, photos, maps, written descriptions, and/or drawings. Presentations by guest artists will bring additional voices and perspectives to our intuitive and critical studio experiences.

Bio Working in response to the context of a specific site or situation with the intent of extending the significance of that context, Nancy uses a variety of media to create sculpture for exhibitions, installations, collaborative performances, and public commissions. She received an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Museum Fine Arts in Boston, and she is director of theCeramics Program at Harvard.

For site-responsive work "on the pedestal", Nancy transforms maps of specific locations into vessel forms and objects. Environmental, social, and art historical references are blended with the map's suggestive visual associations to create a dialogue between nature and culture.

WORK MADE IN RESPONSE TO THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST includes a 50' mural for the Sonoran Desert Pavilion of the North Carolina Zoo, a large mural and low-relief sculptures for the Grand Canyon National Park Visitor Center, and the production of a symposium and seminar at Harvard on Ceramic Traditions of Ancient and Modern Pueblo Potters.

For more information contact Jennifer Schlesinger web. Santa Fe Art Institute email. jschlesinger@sfai.org tel. 505.424.5050