Talk
|
In-Person

An Artist’s Residency at Sèvres

Date
Wed
,
Oct 8
Time
6:00 pm
-
7:30 pm
Location
38 West 86th Street, BGC Lecture Hall
By
Bard Graduate Center
Register
Kristin McKirdy after Etienne-Maurice Falconet (L’Amour Menaçant). Soft-paste porcelain biscuit. Photo: Nicolas Davis © Sèvres Cité de la Céramique.

Celebrated ceramic artist Kristin McKirdy will tell the story of her four-year artist residency at the Manufacture national de Sèvres. She will share the various stages of her experience from preliminary research through the development and execution of several porcelain projects made in collaboration with the institution’s master craftsmen. McKirdy will introduce the various facets of this historical institution—where perfect ceramic pieces are made in a timeless setting, using traditional techniques unchanged since the eighteenth century.