Aqualumina Workshop: Create Ceramic Waves for the Deep

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