COMMUNITY WORKSHOP: Face Mugs with Dominique Maru — The Hambidge Center
Register for a community workshop to hand-build face mugs using clay and explore Southern folklore traditions with artist Dominique Maru.
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- deadline unknown, verify at source
- Entry fee
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- Location
- Hambidge Center, 105 Hambidge Court, Rabun Gap, GA 30568
- Exhibition window
- Aug 22, 2026
About
About the Workshop
Step into the studio for an afternoon of hand-building, history, and clay conjuring. Explore the folklore, superstition, and deep Southern tradition of face jugs through a contemporary lens of memory work. Together, you'll use basic sculpting and hand-building methods to transform raw clay into an expressive, functional face mug that carries its own story. No prior experience necessary.
About the Instructor
Dominique Maru is an embodied artist and spatial steward born and based in metro Atlanta. As a descendant of the diaspora, their work contends with the grief and memory of rupture and the rich medicine built to tend to those wounds. Using everything from movement to poetry, photography, and clay, their work is an exploration of ancestral self-portraiture and present conjuring of somatic memories using earth and body as synonyms.
Date & Time
- Saturday, August 22, 2026
- 12:00 PM–2:00 PM
Location
Hambidge Center, 105 Hambidge Court, Rabun Gap, GA 30568
Eligibility
- Open to local creatives over age 12
- Primary address must be in Rabun County; you will be asked to show ID with your address upon arriving
- Minors must be accompanied by a participating adult; minors will not be asked for ID, only adults
- Limited to 8 participants
- Each participant must register separately
How to Register
Register online. Space is limited to 8 participants for this workshop.
- Theme
- Participants explore the folklore, superstition, and Southern tradition of face jugs through a contemporary lens of memory work and ancestral self-portraiture.
- Eligibility
- Primary address must be in Rabun County; open to local creatives over age 12; minors must be accompanied by a participating adult; limited to 8 participants.
- Audience
- Local creatives over the age of 12; minors must be accompanied by a participating adult.
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