Ceramics w/ Sana Musasama

What do you want to build? If you can imagine it, you can create it in JCAL’s ceramics studio. Ceramics 1 is an introductory course designed to give students a hands-on educational and artistic experience using the medium of clay. Students will begin with basic hand-building techniques and ways of shaping clay-including coil, pinch, and slab methods. Students will also gain experience with various decorating, glazing, and firing techniques.

This class features six sessions. An opening reception will take place at JCAL on July 13th at 12pm.
Contact [email protected] with any questions

Saturday Schedule (1pm-2:30pm)
July 17th, July 24th, July 31st
August 7th, August 14th, August 21st

Tuesday Schedule (3pm-4:30pm)
July 20th, July 27th
August 3rd, August 10th, August 17th, August 24th

About Sana Musasama
Sana Musasama received her BA from City College of New York, NY (1973) and her MFA from Alfred University, NY (1998). Sana began traveling as a way to recover identity and cultural place. Clay was a geographical catalyst that brought her first to West Africa. She studied Mende Pottery in Sierra Leone (1974-75) and ventured later to Japan, China, South America and Cambodia. She has continued her quest, expanding her interest to tribal adornment practices in various indigenous cultures. She is challenged by the concerns surrounding the safety of women, specifically the rituals involving rites of passage, female chastity and the “purification” of the female body. Sana’s work is informed by history, women’s studies, culture and her travel journal.