Texarkana clay artist giving workshop at San Angelo of Fine Arts Museum

SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Tom Morrissey of Texarkana will deliver a free one-hour lecture from 11 a.m., to noon, Saturday, Feb.26, at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts Museum.

The lecture is called "Extruded and Raku Firing Hands on Clay."

From 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. that day, he will do a Raku firing demonstration. (Registration required.)

Morrissey will then hold a four-hour workshop, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Feb. 27, on the same subject. (Registration required.)

Cost is $175, with discounts available for members, military and senior registrants.

Morrissey teaches visual arts at Texas A&M University-Texarkana.

He enlisted in the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Flight School program and served as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics from the University of Florida in 1976, as well as a Master of Fine Arts in ceramics and sculpture from Arizona State University in 1978.

His writings have been published in Ceramics Monthly in America.

(For more information, call 325-653-3333. Register at samfa.org/workshops online.)

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