Ben Evans
Email: bevans@berkshirecountryday.org
Art Director/Director of the Gunnet-Shoval Family Imagination Lab, 5th Grade Homeroom
Joined Berkshire Country Day School in 2014
B.F.A., Ceramics
State University of NY at New Paltz
Ben is a studio potter and teaches Ceramics and Art to students in Kindergarten through Grade 8. As an educator, he facilitates an experience-based studio, encouraging students’ curiosity about ceramics, and, alongside them, he is always striving to “dig deeper.” Beyond the studio, Ben is a two-season coach for the School, coaching cross-country skiing and lacrosse. He also teaches at IS183 Art School in Stockbridge, MA. His other teaching experience includes working as an afterschool art teacher at Morningside Elementary School and Taconic High School in Pittsfield, as an art club teacher at Richmond Consolidated School, and teaching at the Penland School of Crafts in NC. Ben lives and has his pottery studio in Richmond, MA, where he makes functional and sculptural pottery.