A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
SAIC faculty member Jonathan Kusnerek, a person with light skin tone, a dark beard, standing against a white background.

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Jonathan Kusnerek

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Queer, interdisciplinary artist inspired by wild, strange, and magical things.

Education: BFA, 2014, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA Ceramics, 2022, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Resident Artist, 2022-2023, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago. Publications: 2025, Wildscape. Literary Journal, Issue 1. Exhibitions: 2024, Altarpieces, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; 2024, The Worlds We Make, Kylemore Artist in Residence Exhibition, Connemara, Ireland; 2023, Contemporary Ceramic Narratives, a concurrent exhibition with the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference, Cincinnati, OH; 2023, Collected Reverie, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago.

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This course investigates both on and off-wheel construction techniques. It will explore wheel throwing and various hand building techniques such as: extruding, coil, slab, pinch, slump, and press molding-to produce interpretations of the vessel in contemporary society. The vessel as an enclosure of space is the departure point for discussions that include historical references in a contemporary context, the personal metaphor, and the generation of conceptual and aesthetic development beyond the utilitarian format.

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1190

Credits

3