MANKATO — Five-year-old Savanna Hensley looked on with a curious fascination as she observed Carolyn Fox spinning a pottery wheel and shaping clay into a hollow circle Sunday afternoon at the Mankato Makerspace.
“It’s very cool,” said her father, Shane Hensley, of St. Peter. He first heard about the artist collective and nonprofit from a co-worker.
His wife, Kiersten, a professor at Minnesota State University, discovered that one of her students was also active in pottery here, so they decided to check out Sunday’s Makers Market in Mankato to see it for themselves.
“I had no clue we had something like this available,” Shane Hensley said. “Not only that, but having this little shop here…