what is NHCp?

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New Harmony Clay Project (NHCP) is an artist residency and educational center located in historic New Harmony, IN. NHCP fosters an environment that supports the investigation of new ideas and work in the ceramic arts.

For general information on the amenities, restaurants, and events of New Harmony go to Visit New Harmony.com or download the Apple or Android app "Visit New Harmony."

New Harmony

During the residency, you will live in the rural, historic village of New Harmony, which presents a unique opportunity for all artists. Home to two Utopian experiments and a contemporary population of 800, you will find an intriguing mix of history and modern art and a burgeoning artistic environment.  The local library, the Working Men’s Institute Museum and Library, can fulfill basic printing and research needs. Alongside the New Harmony Clay Project, the creativity of musicians, writers, performers, craftsmen and artists working in textiles, wood, fine art, ceramics, among other media and materials make up organizations like the following: 

  • New Harmony Artist Guild

  • Hoosier Salon

  • NH Gallery of Contemporary Art

  • Under the Beams Concert Series

  • Writer’s Guild

  • New Harmony Music Festival and School

  • New Harmony Theater

  • Concerts at Sara’s Harmony Way

  • “Stage Left” Concerts at Events of Harmony

Sponsorship and Support

As a sister organization of the New Harmony Artists Guild, a 501(c)3 organization, the NHCP is able to fulfil its mission, vision and support of our resident artists through generous contributions by the following Foundation supporters and individuals: 

  • New Harmony Artists Guild

  • Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation

  • Efroymson Family Fund

  • Greater Houston Foundation

  • Lenny and Anne Dowhie Trusts

 New Harmony Clay Project is also a member of the Alliance of Artist Communities.

 
 

New Harmony Artist Guild

New Harmony Clay Project is a branch of the New Harmony Artist Guild (the Guild), a 501(c)3 organization. The Guild is a confederation of diversified educational and arts projects in New Harmony that serves to provide a forum for the teaching, appreciation and advancement of visual arts, music (both composition and performance), and crafts.

Its creator and founder, Clement Biddle Penrose III, saw the need for an arts organization in New Harmony and formed the Guild in 1999, to provide a structure designed for member communication and collaboration that allows each member to expand their craft, to develop their confidence, and to present finished products. New Harmony Clay Project works along with New Harmony Music School & Festival to help fulfill the mission of the Guild and to continue building a “creative incubator” for the arts.

Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation

The Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation provides NHCP with year-round studio space at the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Pottery studio, and September-April of each year, it gives the “Gate House” as housing for the NHCP resident artists. This in-kind support makes our program possible.

The Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation was created to preserve, promote and support, financially, and otherwise, the various historic and educational attributes of New Harmony, Indiana, and the Part of Posey County, Indiana, that is immediately adjacent to and historically or culturally related to the Town of New Harmony. A 501(c)(3), the Corporation has been organized exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes.

Efroymson Family Fund

In 1998, Dan and Lori Efroymson established the Efroymson Family Fund—one of the first donor-advised funds accepted by CICF, and the largest in the nation at the time of its creation. The couple also made a gift in 1997 that was instrumental to the formation of CICF and the partnership between The Indianapolis Foundation and Hamilton County Community Foundation, then known as Legacy Fund.

The fund continues a long legacy of charitable commitment by the Efroymson family to Central Indiana. From 1919 to 1999, three generations of Efroymsons—Gustave, Robert, and Dan—served without interruption on The Indianapolis Foundation board of directors. Lori Efroymson-Aguilera served on the CICF board from 2002-2012.

Since Dan’s passing in 1999, Lori Efroymson-Aguilera and their two children, Jeremy and Elissa, have continued the family’s philanthropic legacy in Indianapolis and across the United States by providing financial support to a diverse range of issues including arts and culture, historic preservation, the environment and helping those in need. To date, the Efroymson Family Fund has awarded more than $100 million in grants.

Lenny and Anne Dowhie Trust