November 4, 2026

For immediate release · Contact: Wyatt Roy, [email protected]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – On Thursday, December 3, a two-foot Greek amphora made entirely of gingerbread will stand in the Greek gallery at Harvard Art Museums, a few feet from the ancient vase it was modeled on. It is the work of Julia Mattis and Wyatt Roy, two Cambridge designers, who spent a year making it in their Cambridge apartment.

The amphora is painted in the style of black-figure pottery, the technique Greek painters used between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE. Those vases usually showed scenes from daily life, including harvest and food. This one shows the crops behind gingerbread: wheat, sugar and ginger.

Mattis is a designer at the Harvard GSD who focuses on food systems and healthcare, and a pastry chef and ceramicist who has competed in gingerbread competitions for about a decade.…