MUG REMIX WORKSHOP WITH ROBERTO LUGO 

Families with children ages 6+ 

Sunday, September 27, 2026 • 1:40-3:00 p.m. *If you would like to register for Session 1 instead (12-2:20 pm), please follow the correct link. 

Member Adult $25 • Non-Member Adult $30 

Children 6+ Member $20 • Children 6+ Non-Member $25 

*Children 10 and younger must be registered with an adult. 

Instructor: Roberto Lugo 

Discounts on children's classes begin at the Household Level Membership. 

Need-based scholarships are available by application for children’s classes.  

Children and families are invited to design their own unique mugs in a remixed collage style using ceramic decal transfers, led by the artist Roberto Lugo. Lugo will share about his own ceramic process and will guide families in their unique creations.  

Mugs must be fired in a kiln after the workshop and will be available for pickup at the Museum at a later date.  

Roberto Lugo creates defiant genre-mixing works that confront the function and subject matter of high art objects from Classical Antiquity, East Asia, the Italian Renaissance, seventeenth-century Europe, and beyond. Using the ancient medium of clay as his canvas, Lugo both calls attention to intergenerational experiences of racial injustice while celebrating African American and Latino culture. 

Ceramic as an artistic medium is important to Lugo because of its anthropological context. Over the course of history, finely-crafted ceramic objects stood as a symbol of class, privilege, and the aristocracy. Lugo intervenes in these histories, and countless more, to create a new mode of storytelling that blends narrative and portraiture with cross-disciplinary techniques and time-honored forms in order to introduce those notably absent from the art historical canon. The result is distinctive works in clay unified by Lugo’s call for representation. 

Roberto Lugo holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Penn State. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, among others. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2019 Pew Fellowship, a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize, a US Artist Award, and most recently the Heinz Award for the Arts. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, and more.