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Handbuilding Nature: Ceramic Workshop with Helena

All Levels

Two more spots available. Please email education@artscouncilofprinceton.org to inquire. ... Learn the handbuilding techniques of ceramic artist Helena Bienstock using direct influences from nature. Students will use clay, decorative slips and step-by-step processes to create their own sculptural piece. Workshop fee includes materials, instruction, and firing. Helena Bienstock has been working with clay since the early 1970s, but at the same time has had a long-term teaching career both in Princeton and New York City. She has been active in helping to sustain cultural organizations in New York State and New Jersey, such as the Arts Council of Princeton itself. In appreciation, the clay studio in the Arts Council building is named the Helena Bienstock Clay Studio. Her passion for the environment infuses all her work, bringing together art and social consciousness. This workshop is held in conjunction with Earth, Fire, Water, Ice, Debris: Five Artists Comment on the Environment, on view in the Arts Council´s award-winning Taplin Gallery March 17 through May 5, 2018

Location: Paul Robeson Center for the Arts

Ages: 18+