Aqualumina Workshop: Create a Ceramic Wave for The Deep

Name: Aqualumina Workshop: Create a Ceramic Wave for The Deep
Start: 2026-02-28T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-04-18T12:00:00-05:00
Location: ArtYard

Schedule

Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 10:00 am to Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

ArtYard | Frenchtown, NJ

Join us to build an ocean!
About this Event

Join ArtYard and Mudtown Ceramics for a hands-on workshop series where participants will create porcelain waves for The Deep, a participatory art installation at ArtYard as part of the lead-up to the Aqualumina Festival.

The Deep invites community members to build a shared ocean, one handcrafted wave at a time. Inspired by Bill Viola’s The Raft, the project explores how individual experiences can converge into a powerful, collective force. In Viola’s installation, strangers stand together in quiet isolation until walls of water crash into them, transforming them into a vulnerable, unified whole.

Mudtown Ceramics will host a series of workshops in which participants will shape waves that will become part of this growing ceramic sea. The completed work will be installed on a large table in ArtYard’s entrance gallery.

Workshops take place on Saturdays from February 28 through April 18 at 10:00 a.m. at Mudtown Ceramics, 782 Frenchtown Rd, Milford, NJ. No prior ceramics experience required. All materials provided. After the exhibition, participants will reclaim their individual waves to take home.

Registration is $35 per session. Early bird pricing of $30 is available through Feb. 22

Join us to build an ocean!

Aqualumina is a nighttime riverside lantern festival of music, visual art, and community, and a celebration of the beauty and vulnerability of the Delaware River and river systems worldwide.

About ArtYard

ArtYard is an incubator for creative expression and a catalyst for collaborations that reveal the transformational power of art. We are an interdisciplinary alternative contemporary art center comprised of an exhibition space, theater, and residency program, dedicated to presenting transformative artwork, fostering unexpected collaborations, and incubating original new work.

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