Our August discussion will feature a field trip to the home of artist Ben Behunin. We will also move to Tuesday for this month only.
Below is an article and a video to watch before the discussion, followed by Ben's bio. We're so pleased to have this opportunity to talk with Ben and see his remarkable home.
Date: August 27, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Address: 1150 East 800 South, 84102
Below is an article and a video to watch before the discussion, followed by Ben's bio. We're so pleased to have this opportunity to talk with Ben and see his remarkable home.
Date: August 27, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Address: 1150 East 800 South, 84102
Ben Behunin began working with pottery as a freshman at Highland High. He thought it would be an “easy A”, but his experience proved to be neither easy, nor an “A”. That experience began a 25 year long dance with the clay that has taken Ben to exotic places, such at Idaho, North Carolina, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, Austria and Hawaii in pursuit of his education and his passion. For the past 16 years, Ben has been making his living exclusively as a slinger of slime and a maker of mudpies.
In 2009, after nearly twelve years of being a closet-writer, Ben published the first of his Niederbipp Trilogy, Remembering Isaac, the wise and joyful potter of Niederbipp. This was followed by Discovering Isaac later in 2009 and Becoming Isaac in 2010. His latest book, Borrowing Fire, was released in December 2012. He is currently working on forty-seven other books that may be released sometime in the next fifty years if he can overcome his ADD.
Ben is the father of two young budding potters, Isaac and Eve, ages 12 and 9. He and his wife Lynnette live in Salt Lake City, just inches away from his whimsically magical studio, Wild Rooster Artworks.
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