In this immersive ceramics course, students will collaboratively design and handbuild a personalized chess set and board with artist Anahit Pogosian, using stoneware clay and underglaze to celebrate their love and shared journey, creating a timeless heirloom that honors the power of connection and love in all its forms.

Anahit Pogosian, a first-generation Armenian American, is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, sculpture, and graphic design. Their protean studio practice explores the human experience through themes of ecology, myth, and movement. Unbound by material or tradition, Pogosian creates a dynamic collection of works that celebrate life.

Their education is a tapestry woven from an intuitively guided practice and formal study at institutions, including The Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado.

Pogosian founded Forma Studio was founded by Pogosian in 2010 to house their creative practice. By 2017, their ceramic work was sold at the MOCA, ABC Home & Carpet, and featured in NYT Magazine, Domino Magazine, WWD and Sight Unseen. Sculpture works were exhibited in group shows in New York City and Paris, France.

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