Military Insignia Ceramics Workshop with Ehren Tool
Sunday, September 25, 10am - 3pm
MarinMOCA Classroom; building 781. 

Ceramic artist and U.S. Marine combat veteran Ehren Tool will hold a workshop to create personalized ceramic cups decorated with the recipients' military insignia, or memorabilia and colors. 

Cups are free for recipients.

MarinMOCA invites veterans, military personnel, and their families to bring their insignia or personal memorabilia items to be fashioned onto custom-made ceramic cups in the MarinMOCA classroom. If participants do not have their own insignia,  they can choose from a large collection of insignia that veterans and service members have given Tool over the years. Artist Lexa Walsh has invited Tool to lead the workshop as part of Walsh’s residency and exhibition Consolidated Mess, a large-scale installation with related programming which responds to the Hamilton Field Museum and Archives. 

“I hope conversations flourish between veterans and the people who are close to them. I also hope that honest conversation can happen about war and its causes,” says artist Lexa Walsh. 

Completed cups will be fired and available for picked up on Saturday & Sunday, November 5 & 6— at no charge.

Drop-ins are welcome and no reservation is required. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, please contact info@marinmoca.org.

More about Ehren Tool: 
Tool is the Senior Laboratory Mechanician in the Ceramics Department at UC Berkeley, and a Marine Veteran of the 1991 Gulf War. 

Craft in America
New York Times
UC Berkeley News

Author photo courtesy of Argin Tool.