Studio Sessions
The Shape of Time
with Amanda Leigh Evans
June 2026
About the Studio Session
Throughout history, humans have attempted to visualize time through a multitude of shapes–spiral, line, circle, horizon, grid, tunnel, hole, void, abyss, and more. Ancient timekeeping devices, measurements of deep time, and tracking seasons and cycles are further attempts to understand our place within time, while experiences like calendar synesthesia, a disorienting nap, or an overloaded schedule remind us of the impossibility of grasping time.
Ceramics is the original time-based medium. Geologic and studio processes exist on their own time scales. Clay particles are formed over millions of years as granite weathers. After we reform that material in our hands, clay requires time to dry, kilns take time to fire, and glazing always takes longer than you think. Cracks, glaze mishaps, and explosions are all evidence of mismatched calibration to clay’s time. The longer one works with clay, the easier it is to understand clay’s time-based language. Time shapes us and what we create, but what shape does time take?
About the Lead Artist
Amanda Leigh Evans is an artist, educator and cultivator investigating social and ecological interdependence. Her work manifests as research-driven ceramic objects, performance, print and digital media, public art, and long-term collaborative systems. Evans’ work oscillates between self-contained bodies of work for traditional art spaces and multi-year, site-specific collaborative projects created with dozens of community partners. Evans holds an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University and a Post-Bacc in Ceramics from Cal State Long Beach. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Logistics
This session is scheduled for Sundays, June 7, 14, 21, & 28 from 2-4pm PST (that’s Los Angeles time).
Registration is $320 and includes all four sessions.
Participants gather via Zoom.