Lifelong Studio: Wax Art-Making With Exhibiting Artist Nazli Efe
LIFELONG STUDIO: WAX SCULPTURE-MAKING
WITH EXHIBITING ARTIST NAZLI EFE
Thursday, April 30 • 4:00 – 6:00 PM
For Adults Age 55+
Free! Registration Required
As part of The Bronx Museum’s Lifelong Studio program, offering free art-making workshops to adults aged 55 and older, we are delighted to welcome artist Nazli Efe to teach this one-session wax sculpture-making class titled “Into the Depths.”
Efe previously participated in the Museum’s prestigious AIM Fellowship—a career accelerator for the most promising artists based in NYC. Her multi-layered works, Open Weave No. 1 – 6, 2024–2026, are currently on view in The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection.
The artist describes her Lifelong Studio workshop as follows: Inspired by kurşun dökme (molybdomancy), a traditional divination method practiced in Turkiye, this workshop led by Nazli Efe invites participants to create forms by pouring molten beeswax into water. The Water manifests itself in forms that wait to be read. As the wax solidifies, participants engage in free association and reflection, responding to the emerging shapes through writing, poetry, or sketching.
Gathering around Water—our primordial mother—the workshop creates a meditative space that mirrors the unconscious, drawing out memories, emotions, and personal insights. The forms created during the session, along with participants’ reflections, will be installed together, culminating in a collective sculptural work.
About Nazli Efe
Nazli Efe grew up in Turkey and Cyprus, holding both nationalities. She studied Architecture at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul and Virginia Tech University in Washington, DC. After five years of working in the creative industries, she earned her MFA with high honors from Pratt Institute in 2022. As an interdisciplinary artist, Efe creates installations, sculptures, and performances. Her work explores the connection between Water, the unconscious mind, and memory.
Her work has been exhibited at RAINRAIN Gallery, the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Long Island City Artists, and Field Projects, and she has held an online exhibition with the New Art Dealers Alliance. Efe is the recipient of several awards, including the Stutzman Family Foundation Sculpture Award Special Recognition, and the Pratt Outstanding Merit Award. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic and Whitehot magazines. She participated in the Pratt>Forward Residency Program in 2024 and was awarded a 2025 AIM Fellowship at The Bronx Museum. Since 2022, Efe has been a Member Artist at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York.
