Tea Immersion at Clay Art Center

On

Saturday, March 1 from 1-4pm, CAC will host

Tea Immersion. Three presentations from known authorities will offer their

personal perspective on tea culture. Leslie
Ferrin, Author of Teapots Transformed;
Exploration of an Object, will present an overview of contemporary
ceramic teapots, Ulysses Dietz, Senior Curator at the Newark Museum will offer
an historical survey of the teapot both as a functional form and as an artistic
challenge in the West, and Michael
Harney, VP of Harney & Sons Master Tea Blenders, will speak about tea
tastes and traditions in various tea  growing lands and how that has influenced tea

pots in several countries. A panel
discussion will follow the lectures moderated
by Judith Schwartz, Professor of Art & Art Professions at NYU. Tea tastings
will culminate the event hosted by poured by Harney & Sons. Fee: $25
members. $35 non-members. Free for full-time students with ID