In this workshop, participants will be taken on a guided tour outside to examine the various stones of the buildings at Teachers College. Participants will select a building surface that resonants with their experience at TC and record impressions of that stone with clay. We will take these impressions back to the ceramics studio classroom, where participants will be encouraged and guided to create one small ceramic form that captures their experience. Participants will have the option for these pieces to be fired and pick up to take home when finished at a later date.

Instructor: Aimee Ehrman, Non-Credit and Communty Studio Arts Program, and 2024 Myers Awardee

This workshop is limited to 15-18 participants.

Where: Ceramics Studio (59 Macy)

Bio:

Aimee Ehrman is a ceramic artist-educator who examines the intersection of embodied learning and ceramics, and how the embodied practices of ceramics can be explored in higher education. She is deeply interested in exploring what happens during the moments of making with clay, and how we think and learn with and through our engagement with clay. Through constant exploration with the material, and as an active artist and educator, she brings her movement and ceramics practices to the classroom, where she challenges students to both experiment with the material and consider the role of the body as a tool. Aimee’s individual art works and installations are held in private collections and exhibited in galleries nationwide. Aimee, is part-time faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is also a doctoral candidate for an Ed.D.C.T. in Art and Art Education, and has also earned an Ed.M. She has a M.F.A. from SUNY New Paltz and a B.A. from Baldwin Wallace University.

Please note: If there is rain on Friday, November 8th, we will move the workshop to Friday, November 15th, 12-2pm.

Poster Image: Courtesy of Aimee Ehrman