Offered by the Office for Student Support, a Kintsugi Workshop and optional dinner will be held on Tuesday, March 18th. Dinner will be provided from 4:30-5pm and the workshop will start at 5-7pm.

Please complete this RSVP form to confirm your attendance! After you RSVP, the Office for Student Support will follow up with you about any additional workshop details. 

What is Kintsugi? "Kintsugi (golden joinery) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Japanese aesthetics values marks of wear by the use of an object. This can be seen as a rationale for keeping an object around even after it has broken and as a justification of kintsugi itself, highlighting the cracks and repairs as simply an event in the life of an object rather than allowing its service to end at the time of its damage or breakage." - traditionalkyoto.com

• Where: GCC-BCD
• When: March 18th, optional dinner at 4:30, Workshop from 5-7pm
• * As it is Ramadan, dinner will be served in a separate location, in GCC-A, from the workshop space. To-go boxes will be available for students who are fasting and plan to eat at a later time!

Workshop Details: During this workshop, you will have the opportunity to engage with the process of creating art as a form of expression and tool to process your experiences. During the workshop, Cate McCrory will lead students through the philosophy of Kintsugi. Students will:

•  Have the opportunity to write down and reflect on something in their lived experience that they consider in need of repair that needs some care and attention.
• Select a piece of pottery, break it and reflect on their process of breaking the pieces and planning on steps to put the pieces back together using gold joinery.
• Cate will help assist students in applying Kintsugi philosophy as they put the pieces back together and how their pottery is a reflection of one’s experiences.
• After the workshop Cate will take the pottery pieces to the kiln and return them to students approximately one week after the workshop to keep!