Women + Queers in Clay from GasworksNYC

Sundays, February 1-April 5, 2026, Recordings available in the members Facebook group

This series of workshops will bring together the talents and perspectives of 10 women and gender non-conforming artists working in clay from around the country. Each week a different instructor will do an artist talk followed by a demonstration of one of their special skills or favorite techniques online via zoom. We have access to the recordings for at least one year.

Here's the lineup:

• Ruth Easterbrook will do an artist talk followed by a demo on planning and strategizing for layering glazes

• Andréa Keys Connell will do an artist talk and then demonstrate building large-scale sculptures

• Amy Sanders will do an artist talk, then demonstrate how she builds a small pouring vessel with darting and alterations.

• Latika Nehra will do an artist talk and then demonstrate how she translates ideas into hand-built forms

• Max Trumpower will do an artist talk and presentation on glaze chemistry for beginners, followed by a demonstration on building figurative vessels

• Maggie Boyd will do an artist talk and then demonstrate making candlesticks with surface decoration

• Candice Methe will do an artist talk and then demonstrate how she builds animal effegies

• Chanakarn Semachai (Punch) will do a short artist talk and then demostrate building a 2-legged standing sculpture with added sculptural elements

• Kiran Joan will do an artist talk and then demonstrate illustrating dynamic sculptures

• Nala C. Turner will do an artist talk and demonstrate somatics (in wheel throwing), impressions, and altered forms

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