Pottery with Silvermine for Grades 3-6

Come get your hands dirty! During this workshop, you will create a unique piece of sculptural art from air-dried clay. Beginning techniques for modeling, sculpting, and building with clay will be utilized and explored. Create a personal work of art, to take home! For children in grades 3-6.

Zach Dunn is a member of the faculty at Silvermine Arts Center and is an experienced artist currently living and creating in Connecticut. As a believer in the intrinsic value of the handmade, Zach has followed his passion for ceramics from his first class in high school through an MFA at Syracuse University. With numerous apprenticeships, lectures, workshops and prestigious professorships, Zach has built a collection of work that is timeless. Zach’s work is reflective of his New England roots with playful elegance, classic style, and enduring functionality. He currently teaches at the University of Hartford, Southern Connecticut State University as well as Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, CT.  

This program is made possible by a generous grant from the Horizon Foundation.