Join us for a very special two-part wind chime making workshop with multidisciplinary artist and instrument builder, Julia Elsas, to celebrate the summer solstice! 

In our first session, Julia will guide you through making ceramic components for your very own ceramic wind chime. In our second session, on the afternoon of the summer solstice, we will assemble our chimes and end the workshop with an improvisational sound performance, welcoming the longest day of the year and making intentions for the coming months. 

Julia Elsas is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her art practice encompasses ceramics, textiles, printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance. Recent exhibitions and performances include Asya Geisberg Gallery, Available Items, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pasaquan, The Bo Bartlett Center, Isabel Sullivan Gallery and Jane Hartsook Gallery. 

Julia has been an artist-in-residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, Venice, Italy; Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. She was in the 2018-2019 inaugural cohort of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, a 2019 - 2020 Keyholder Resident at the Lower East Side Print Shop and a 2022 Artist in Residence at Obracadobra in Oaxaca City, Mexico. 

Julia teaches ceramics at Greenwich House Pottery and printmaking at the Lower East Side Print Shop in NYC.

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