Featured, on October 7, 2015, on the homepage of Archaeology Magazine, the Museums and Society’s Spring 2015 course makes headlines once again!

In Spring 2015, Sanchita Balachandran, the Archaeological Museum’s Curator/Conservator, taught an interactive, hands on course titled Recreating Ancient Greek Ceramics (AS.389.335). In collaboration with expert ceramics artists, including Matthew Hyleck and Cami Ascher at Baltimore Clayworks, thirteen undergraduate students and one graduate student assistant at Johns Hopkins. The course attempted to recreate one of the most iconic, beautiful and technologically complex objects known from ancient Greece–the red-figure kylix or cup. A kiln was built from the ground up, clay was manipulated, and fired and students learned about the processes and dedication it takes for each stage of creation. The entire project has been documented as a short film.

You can read Archaeology Magazine’s article here.