FLORENCE-Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts has converted its Carriage House into a community ceramics studio with funding from the Kennedy-Douglass Trust and will host ceramics workshops and classes in the studio, with plans for artist residencies being developed for the future. On Saturday, June 12th from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. UNA Associate Professor of Art, Ceramics and Sculpture Aaron Benson will be teaching a one-day ceramics workshop for adults and children of 16 years and older. Professor Benson will teach students how to combine traditional slab building methods to create unique one of a kind plant containers. Participants will work through designing, building, and decorating their vessels.
Aaron Tennessee Benson has a combined twenty years of experience working in clay. He received his MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and his BFA 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 the 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.
The June 12th workshop fee of $95 includes a day of instruction and all materials and tools. Registration for the workshop can be made online at:
https://www.florencealmuseums.com/calendar/1-day-ceramics-workshop-with-aaron-benson
Call 256-760-6379 for more information.
Located at 217 East Tuscaloosa Street in Florence, the Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts is open, free of charge, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Sundays 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Museum programs are made possible, in part, by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Kennedy-Douglass Trust and the Kennedy-Douglass Art Volunteers.
Media Release/Nadene Mairesse
Program Coordinator
Kennedy-Douglass Center For the Arts
