Students of all skill levels will be instructed through handbuilding a set of 2 cups. Students will be given the option of constructing mugs, chalices, or tumblers. We will be using the methods of pinching and coiling. Works will be fired and glazed based on the student's choice of glaze. Students will pick up finished works two weeks following the class.
Eva Conrad (She/They) was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Eva received her BFA at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she produces ceramics and paintings out of her home studio. They relocated to Pittsburgh to complete a year-long residency at the Union Project. Eva works with repetitive patterns to create deceptive dimensions between sculptures, functional pots, and paintings. Her intuitive play with clay and paint pairs with the rigidity of these binary structured patterns to embrace the dimension of spaces between the linear understandings that society presents. Since living in Pittsburgh, activism has become a way to embody the values that their work holds and deepen the understanding of its place and purpose. Some other notable accomplishments Eva has had over the past years include, a collaborative curation project, Art in House, a year long residency at the Nth Degree Gallery and Studios, organizing an art raffle to raise reparations thought Uhuru Solidarity Movement, three solo exhibitions, participation in over a dozen group shows, attendance of a workshop at Penland School of Craft with Winnie Owens-Hart, as well as volunteering for Penland’s annual auction, and assisting her mentor Andrea Keys Connell in her studio practice.
