If you’ve ever sat at a spinning wheel and fashioned a piece of art with clay, you know it takes a soft touch and a lot of concentration. Many say it can be therapeutic.

The therapeutic part is the idea behind the upcoming “Expression Through Clay” workshop on Thursday, April 23 at 5:15 p.m. at Lake Superior College.

“Clay is a vehicle that records feelings and experience,” said LSC Art Instructor Dorian Beaulieu. “The art of creation will draw happy, sad or whichever emotions but those expressions of feelings will each be unique to the artist.”

The event, which is sponsored by the LSC Art Department, Diversity Committee, Campus Parents Club and United Students, is designed to bring awareness to domestic and relationship violence and how to stop the cycle of violence. Liz Dolph and Jeremy Nevilles-Sorell of “Mending the Sacred Hoop” a Native American non-profit social change agency that works to eliminate violence against women, will be the featured speakers for the event.

The event kicks off at 5:15 p.m. with a presentation from Dolph and Nevilles-Sorell. A clay demonstration by Beaulieu, along with a pizza reception, will begin around 6:30 p.m. The entire event will take place at the LSC Art Building, located on the far west end of the campus.

For more information on this event, contact Nancy Schumacher at 733-5985 or n.schumacher@lsc.edu.

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