AIM Meetup x UT Downtown Gallery: Hand Building with Donté K. Hayes
Thu, Feb 05
|UT School of Art Ceramics Annex
Join us in in collaboration with UT Downtown Gallery & Donté K. Hayes for a demonstration of hand building and clay techniques!


Time & Location
Feb 05, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
UT School of Art Ceramics Annex , 1715 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37916, USA
About the Event
Join us in collaboration with UT Downtown Gallery for a Hand Building Demo with Donté K. Hayes, where participants will learn about basic hand building techniques in ceramics.
About Donté K. Hayes:

Donté K. Hayes graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University at Kennesaw, Georgia with a BFA in Ceramics and Printmaking with an art history minor. Donté received his MA and MFA with honors from the University of Iowa and is the 2017 recipient of the University of Iowa Arts Fellowship. Donté was awarded a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant Award in 2022. He is the Grand Prize winner of the Coined in the South: 2022 exhibition at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. Donté K. Hayes is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, Florida.