Date: Feb 28 & Mar 1, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Instructor: Greg Cochenet

Location: FVAC Annex 8D at 8 Canal Court, Unit D, Avon, CT 06001, across from FVAC campus
Level: Some clay experience required (Minimum Age: 18)
Tuition: $250, includes 10 lbs of clay and bisque firing Members save 10%
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Class Description

Join New Haven-based artist Greg Cochenet for a two-day hands-on ceramics workshop focusing on sculptural boxes and containers.
Students will explore multiple approaches to lidded vessels and learn how to develop complex forms using both wheel throwing and handbuilding techniques. Demonstrations will cover construction strategies, joining methods, lids and closures, surface development, and ways to translate ideas between wheel-thrown and handbuilt components.

About the Instructor

A native of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Greg is a ceramic artist and educator whose work is influenced by rural Midwestern culture and architecture that is disappearing amidst urban sprawl. Greg earned his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2000 and his M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2004. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States in an array of exhibitions. Greg Cochenet is a professor of ceramics at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Greg' s work is a creative remnant, much like the agrarian structures of inspiration; it is the product of observation and experience with the juxtaposition of the rural and urban landscapes. Growing up in an average Midwestern city, surrounded by agriculture, agrarian icons became a part of Greg's vernacular of self-expression. With urban sprawl altering his home, he expressed his feelings of this change in the form of
dilapidated sculptural vessels, influenced by silos, barns, and grain bins. Transplanted to the urban East Coast, Greg's work has evolved to reflect, rather than react to, the transformation of his Midwestern home.
Visit Greg's website.