FLORENCE-Join the Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts Saturday, August 3rd from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. for a Ceramics hand-building workshop! Learn to build and glaze your own ceramics in this one-day class with instructor, Aaron Benson. Registration is limited, so sign-up soon.
Aaron Tennessee Benson has a combined twenty-years of experience working in clay. He received his MFA in Ceramics from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He has been an intern at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado and a long-term resident and MJD Fellow at Archie Bray Foundation in Montana. Benson’s work has been published, collected, and exhibited both nationally and internationally. His current body of work uses traditional ceramic hand-building methods to create large scale public works.
Register in person at the Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, 217 E. Tuscaloosa St., Florence, AL 35630 (Note: payment can be made with cash or check only; deadline to register is August 1st).
WHEN: 9 am- 3 pm, Saturday August 3rd
WHERE: Kennedy-Douglass Art Center
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
9 am- Noon: Introduction, design, and hand-build
Noon-1:00 pm: Lunch Break (while clay dries)
1:00- 3:00 pm: Glaze
Art pick-up: August 11th, between 1-4 pm.
WORKSHOP FEE: $95 (includes Instruction & materials costs)
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