The Infinite School at Haystack
The Yet To Be (installation view), 2023. Sculptures: ceramic, gold, bronze, jewelry. Pedestal: painted mdf and wood. Photo by Brica Wilcox.
Started in 2019 by Julia Haft-Candell, The Infinite School is an in-person experimental space for ceramic education outside of the institution. Core values of The Infinite School include demystifying the ceramic process; facilitating empowered communities of artists; quality art education outside of traditional institutions; building new ceramic histories; and embracing failure.
For this workshop, The Infinite School will travel to Haystack, offering this experimental space on the East Coast for the first time. As a group, through trial and error, we will demystify aspects of the ceramic medium such as building big, glaze mixing, and multiple firing, question ideas of mastery and genius, and rebel against the rules you've been taught about ceramics. All levels welcome.
Julia Haft-Candell's (she/her) work employs a wide range of materials–clay, bronze, painting, drawing and installation–and explores materials' ostensibly contradictory states: fluid or fixed, malleable or memorialized. Haft-Candell has presented solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Candice Madey Gallery, New York, NY; Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, among others. She has been in group exhibitions at The Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA; Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY; The Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA, and other galleries and institutions. Haft-Candell has received grants and residencies from Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY; Skowhegan School of Painting and Scupture, Skowhegan, ME; Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, NY; and California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, along with other national and international organizations. She runs The Infinite School, a ceramics education program, in Los Angeles, CA, where she lives and works.