Indian Ceramics Triennale: Critical Writing Workshop with Elaine Olafson Henry

Elaine Henry is a well known writer who has contributed tremendously to scholarship related to ceramic art practice. She is a former Editor/Publisher of Ceramics: Art & Perception.

In this workshop for the Indian Ceramics Triennale, she will discuss the objective and subjective qualities commonly used in writing what might be considered a “review". You will analyze currently published reviews for these qualities and discuss the objective qualities of writing a review and demonstrate how subjective analyses follow, to give the writer the opportunity for personal assessment.

To prepare for the workshop please read a review or two in a newspaper or magazine, find a work of art that moves you, and write about it as if you were reviewing it. If possible, keep it to one page. Bring your review to the workshop. Individual one-on-one meetings can be scheduled for the afternoon following our morning together as a group.

Numbers are limited and registration is offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Registration: Rs 5500

Cost is inclusive of a delicious hot vegetarian lunch.

Tea will be served from 10.30 am

At

Sanskriti Kendra

Anand Gram, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Rd, Aya Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi 110047, India

Elaine Henry is former Editor/Publisher of Ceramics: Art & Perception. She taught at Emporia State University in Kansas, acting as Department Chair from 2000–2007. She was President of NCECA 2002–2004 and is now a Fellow and Honorary Member of that organization. She is a past president and lifetime member of the International Ceramics Magazine Editors Association. Published, exhibited and collected worldwide, she is a Council member of the International Academy of Ceramics. In 2020, she earned an MA in English at the University of Wyoming, focusing on critical writing