KEY WEST, FL, January 14, 2026— The College of the Florida Keys (CFK) is offering a special, two-day ceramics workshop featuring visiting artist and professor, Von Venhuizen, who will demonstrate his wheel throwing and hand-building assemblage methods and lecture on his current and past artwork.

The workshop will take place in the hand-building studio on the CFK Key West Campus from Thursday, February 6 through Friday, February 7 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day.

Von Venhuizen, an Associate Professor of Art in Ceramics at Texas Tech University, earned his M.F.A. from Indiana University. He is a nationally and internationally exhibited artist with an exceptional reputation in Kiln Design and Construction, Architectural Ceramics, Ceramic Production Design, Ceramic RAM Press methods, Slip Casting, Mold Making, 3-D Printing in Clay, and Wheel Throwing. His work has been included in hundreds of juried, invitational, and solo exhibitions.

Von’s pieces are in numerous private and university collections, and museums, as well as books and periodicals. He is a two-time, student-nominated Texas Tech Teacher of the Year, and his students know him for his colorful stories of ceramics, his love of cars and motorcycles, his search for the elusive Chupacabra, as well as being an armadillo whisperer.

The fee for the two-day workshop is $215. To learn more and register, visit: https://www.cfk.edu/academics/continuing-education/.

For more information about the ceramics program, contact Dennis Loucks, Artist-in-Residence, CFK at: dennis.loucks@cfk.edu or 305-296-9081, ext. 671.

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