Artist Talks
with Eleni vogiatzi & David Schnuckle
Thursday, March 19 at 5:30pm
Artist Talks at Starworks are free and open to the public. Guests are invited to meet featured visiting artists, watch and learn as they present slides and discuss their process and influence, and ask questions about their works.
Treat Yourself - Starworks Cafe & Taproom is open during this event and proudly serves a variety of craft NC beer, delicious wine, coffee & lattes, smoothies, and much more.
Stay After for a live theatrical performance. Red by Rhinoleap Productions begins at 7pm (ticketed)
Change of Venue: March 2026 Artist Talks will take place upstairs at the School House Gallery at Starworks
Eleni Vogiazi
Starworks Resident Ceramic Artist - Spring 2026
Eleni was born and raised in Greece. She is currently a ceramic artist based in the UK, set to graduate with a BA (Hons) in Ceramics this June. Her artistic influences draw inspiration from nature, particularly textures, shapes, and landscapes. Two key aspects stand out in her work: material experimentation and slow making. Eleni focuses on using wild clays and waste materials to develop glazes aligning as closely as possible with the sustainability principles. This theme formed the basis of her dissertation, in which she explored recycling ceramic waste to replace virgin raw materials in her base glazes.
Eleni completed a summer internship at a pottery studio in Crete in 2023, gaining hands-on experience in the daily operations of a studio, running workshops, and assisting with day-to-day activities. She also had the opportunity to experience wood firing alongside an established potter in the UK in 2024. Eleni’s recent work was exhibited in the “Collection” exhibition at the Stradling Collection, Bristol, 2024 and in a group exhibition by the 3rd year Ceramic students from Cardiff School of Art and Design at Llantarnam Grange, Wales, 2025.
David Schnuckle
Starworks Resident Glass Artist - Spring 2026
David Schnuckel is an artist whose work thinks through glass, a writer who examines issues related to glass, and an educator who challenges students to find sculptural solutions to conceptual problems by way of glass.
His work exhibits internationally and belongs in the permanent collections of the GlazenHuis in Lommel, Belgium, the Museum of American Glass in Millville, New Jersey, and the Shanghai Museum of Glass in Shanghai, China. Schnuckel has taught at Alfred University, the Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, the Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Craft, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass. As a writer, he maintains a blog that examines elements of his making and teaching practice called David Schnuckel Uses His Words, has self-published a number of solo and collaborative writing projects, and has been a regular contributor to GASnews, the newsletter of the Glass Art Society.
Schnuckel is Associate Professor of Glass and the Charlotte Mowris Fellow of the School for American Crafts at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.