"Rhapsody Repair Workshop: Ceramics" at MASS MoCA

March 28 | MASS MoCA, Building 4.2, North Adams, MA | 11am–4pm

Within MASS MoCA’s current exhibition "Rhapsody," this hands-on workshop invites participants to engage directly with the exhibition’s underlying themes of repair, reuse, and collective making. Held on Saturday, March 28 from 11am to 4pm, the session focuses on ceramic repair, led by ceramicist Nora Normile.

Participants are encouraged to bring a small broken ceramic object and work with repair materials to restore it over the course of the five-hour workshop. There is a built-in break around midday to allow adhesives to cure.

The workshop is part of a broader series connected to "Rhapsody," an exhibition by artist Jimena Sarno that considers repair as both a material practice and a social undertaking. Across the exhibition, Sarno and her collaborators frame acts of mending—whether textile, sculptural, or ceramic—as a way of thinking about interdependence and shared responsibility in a fragmented present. 

Framed less as a class than as an extension of the exhibition itself, the workshop offers a chance to move from observation into participation—bringing damaged objects back into use while situating that act within a larger conversation about making, care, and continuity.

Tickets are $60 ($54 for members) and include museum admission.