“Creative Aging,” funded by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, is a free eight-week ceramics workshop at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies, open to eligible participants, i.e. novices ages 55 and older. The deadline to enroll is Feb. 23. Only 16 spaces are available.

Led by instructor Mary-Kate Connors-Fogel from the Makers Station pottery studio in West Creek, the program teaches how to stay creative and engaged in the arts, specifically ceramic…