JENI HANSEN GARD
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Teaching Clay in the Classroom, 2019


"In this comprehensive spiral-bound workbook, artist and educator Jeni Hansen Gard provides an informative guide for teaching ceramics at the K–12 level. A hands-on companion to the video series of the same name, this workbook gives a thorough introduction to all aspects of teaching clay in the classroom. Filled with hundreds of illustrations and step-by-step images to help explain ceramic processes and equipment, the convenient spiral bound format makes it easy to hang the helpful instructional diagrams in the classroom or hand out to students." 
Teaching Clay in the Classroom was published in 2019 by The American Ceramic Society.

Q&A with Mill Hill Resident Artists, 2019


Q&A with Mill Hill Resident Artists Jeni Hansen Gard & Forrest Sincoff Gard. Originally published in the 2019 April/May issue (33)3 of Macon Magazine, Macon, Georgia on pages 116-117. 
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Teaching Clay in the Classroom: 4-part video series, 2018


Created in partnership with the American Ceramic Society and Ceramic Arts Network this Video Series includes Part 1: The Classroom, Part 2: Handbuilding, Part 3: Wheel Throwing, and Part 4 Decorating Techniques. It is available through the Ceramic Arts Network. 
"In Teaching Clay in the Classroom, artist and educator Jeni Hansen Gard provides a comprehensive guide to setting up a classroom for teaching ceramics, teaching handbuilding and wheel throwing, and decorating techniques to use at the K-12 level. Because many K-12 art teachers have to teach this complicated subject with little or no ceramics background, this presentation gives a thorough introduction to teaching clay in the classroom."

The Common Table, 2018


​The Common Table brought together a group of twenty-two women who share the physical space on the Wesleyan College campus in Macon, Georgia. The project aimed to encourage a diverse group of students, faculty, and staff to build community through a series of events and a shared meal that took place on handmade dishes within the gallery. This book includes the portraits and personal essays written by the twenty-two women who participated in The Common Table, along with documentation of the meal and exhibition. 
​You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.
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Rethinking Our Relationship With Food: An Interview with Jeni Hansen Gard: By James Oliveros, 2018 

This interview was part of the educational materials that supplemented the "Craft as Social Practice" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. 
"Jeni Hansen Gard is an artist, community organizer, and a beet risotto enthusiast who lives in Macon, Georgia. I spoke with Jeni about her relationships with food, community, art, and the reason her ceramics work best when there’s a chance you might break them." - James Oliveros
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Ceramics Monthly, Pac-Man Sponge, 2018


I saw my first cut sponge in a friend’s kitchen next to their sink. The sponge was cut and propped up vertically, which allowed it to dry evenly. I thought about all of my students’ lost sponges and the countless sponge parts that I had found when cleaning out the pug mill. Soon after, I started cutting my throwing sponge so that I could place it over the rim of my throwing bucket to keep it from getting lost in the slop.


Social Objects, 2017


by the Socially Engaged Craft Collective and Friends 
What power do objects carry in our lives? How do they influence our everyday experiences, create connection or encourage resistance? Throughout the trajectory of human history, we have used objects to contain meaning and to build relationships. In Social Objects, members of the Socially Engaged Craft Collective and guest contributors investigate Socially Engaged Craft practice through essays, interviews, project descriptions, and calls to action. The projects represented in the publication and accompanying exhibition engage the fundamental relational qualities of objects to build active, social experiences. Essays and Thoughts: Henry James Haver Crissman, Mary Callahan Baumstark, Amanda Leigh Evans, Jeni Hansen Gard, Shannon Hebert Waldman, Forrest Sincoff Gard, nicole gugliotti, Namita Gupta Wiggers, Holly Hanessian, Lauren Karle, Elizabeth Kozlowski, Anna Metcalfe, Cheyenne Rudolph, Nicole Seisler, Michael J. Strand, Juliette Walker, Summer Zickefoose Workbook: Alex Amerri, Mariana Baquero, The Brick Factory, Rebecca Chernow, Keeryong Choi, Roz Crews, Jamie Crooke Powell, Jen DePaolo, Monica Dixon, Brian Gillis, Gregory Hatch, Ayumi Horie & Nick Moen, Max Infeld, Joshua Kosker, Kari Marboe, Mac McCusker & Project Canary, Lauren Moran, Hannah Newman, Salty (Xi Jie Ng), Rosa Novak, Iviva Olenick, Lauren Sandler, Robin Tieu & Art + Feminism, Brian Widmaier
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Ceramics Monthly, October 2016, p. 102


by Forrest Sincoff Gard with Jeni Hansen Gard 
"Drilling through ceramics is actually not as hard as one might think. I’m talking about the task of course and not the actual material. It’s a matter of having the right tools and a little patience. I will say though, if you are creating something out of clay and you know you want a hole in it, the best thing to do is to make the hole in the leather- hard stage. However if you decide later on that you need a hole and the piece has already been red and glazed, then the following instructions will be very helpful for the process."

Pottery Making Illustrated,  Feb/March, 2016


by Jeni Hansen Gard
"With a strong cultural connection to Denmark, as the grand-daughter of Danish immigrants, I’ve always been interested in the traditions of my ancestors. In my own work, I look at the rituals of meal sharing and its historical and contemporary relationship to ceramic tableware. I traveled to Denmark in May for an artist residency at Guldergaard International Ceramic Research Center in hopes of discovering my food heritage. What I found was a culture of people who were in love with their bread. The most common, and by far the most important, recipe I was taught was for the traditional Danish rye bread, known as rugbrød." 
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Tales of the Red Clay Rambler by Ben Carter. Season 5 Episode 148


Jeni Hansen Gard and Forrest Gard on Socially Engaged Craft
"Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a discussion with Jeni and Forrest Gard. Founding members of the Socially Engaged Craft Collective both create ceramic objects that are used in performance based art that engages community. In the interview we talk about their history as makers, the core framework of socially engaged art, and the founding of the collective."

Ceramics Monthly, May 2016, p. 74 


Emerging Artist
"Many of us have experienced the ways that using handmade ceramic vessels can influence the conversations had over a meal, and make us think more deeply about the daily ritual of eating. Jeni Hansen Gard builds on this by orchestrating projects that increase awareness beyond our field about handmade ceramics, food production, as well as the social nature and community-building potential of shared meals. She provides parameters for the use of specific sets, finds community members to participate in the project, and sends the work out into the world to act as a vehicle for building experiences. Participants become collaborators who are encouraged to share their perspectives in words and photos. The physical objects are often made with transport in mind. As people are asked to take dishes with them on the go, or to pass them on to the next participant, building carrying cases into the design is both an opportunity for further collaboration with artists in other media, and a necessity to ensure each piece can be used by multiple participants." 
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  • Portfolio
    • Home: Part 2
    • Home: Part 1
    • Macon Flowers
    • Commemorate Series
    • Creative Museum Navigation
    • The Common Table
    • Social Plates
    • Cups of Conversation >
      • Cups of Conversation: 50 States NCECA
      • Cups of Conversation: Speed Friending
      • Cups of Conversation: 50 States
      • Cups of Conversation: Seward, Nebraska
      • Cups of Conversation: Helena, Montana
    • Growing Community Table
    • Weaving Dialogues
    • The Community Table
    • Partake Columbus
    • Project Share
    • The Relational Table
    • MILK/MILK
    • Dear Grandma
    • Project Sauerkraut
    • [In]Visible: Ties that Bind
    • Making a Meal
    • Project NOLA
    • Dish Set Challenge III
    • Dish Set Challenge II
    • Dish Set Challenge I
    • Salad Party
    • Plants and Herbs
    • 2013
    • 2012
    • 2011 - Past Work
    • Current Portfolio
  • About
    • Biography
    • Artist Statement
    • CV
    • Teaching Philosophy
    • MA Graduate School Work >
      • ARE 6049: History of Art Education
      • ARE 6148: Curriculum in Teaching Art
      • ARE 6641: Contemporary Issues in Art Education
      • ARE 6746: Methods of Research
      • MA in Art Education, Thesis, University of Florida
  • In Print
  • Teaching Clay in the Classroom
  • Links
  • Contact