Namdoo Kim
Namdoo Kim is an artist exploring human desire and consumer culture through glass and ceramics. His playful yet critical works blend humor, satire, and intellect, revealing contradictions and disillusionment in material pursuits. Educated in Korea, the US, and Australia, he continues to expand global dialogues on art.
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Namdoo's Upcoming Workshops
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Level II
Students have a basic understanding of forming techniques, such as throwing and hand building. Students have taken one or two ceramics classes or workshops.
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Level III
Students have significant experience with clay forming techniques, such as throwing, hand building and modeling. Students are comfortable with ceramics equipment, such as wheels, extruders and slab rollers. Students are self-starting with some formal training and have taken a minimum of three classes or workshops.
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Level IV
Students have advanced skills and knowledge of the ceramics field. Students are highly motivated, have a minimum of five years experience in the field and have a portfolio of their artwork. Typical students are academics and professional artists.
Jun 15 - 26, 2026
9 AM - 5 PM
Stories in Clay: Shaping Imagination
Namdoo Kim
Tuition $1,795
Code C0303-26
This hand-building workshop invites participants to transform personal stories and images into sculptural form. By focusing on Kim’s’s specialized slab-building techniques and incorporating other handbuilding techniques, students explore clay as a medium of both structure and narrative, reflecting memories, dreams, and desires. This workshop emphasizes creative expression over technical mastery by shaping figures, objects, and abstract forms that carry meaning. Through modeling and storytelling, participants experience clay as a living material, discovering how touch and imagination merge to produce not only sculptures, but also vessels of personal voice, memory, and vision.