“BOTANICAL FORM”: This glazed earthenware work by James Jansma is featured in “Two Craftsmen: Andrew Franz | Furniture + James Jansma | Ceramic Vessels,” on view through November 19 at Morpeth Contemporary in Hopewell. A Meet the Artists event is on November 12 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Morpeth Contemporary presents the work of two local craftsmen affiliated with both Princeton Day School and Princeton University. “Two Craftsmen: Andrew Franz | Furniture + James Jansma | Ceramic Vessels” is on view through November 19 at the gallery at 43 West Broad Street, Hopewell. A Meet the Artists event is on Saturday, November 12 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Franz is well known as a former instructor at the Princeton Day School. From 1969 and for the following 30 years he mentored and advised hundreds of middle- and upper-school students as he taught them the arts of woodworking, printmaking, and metalworking in a workshop that now bears his name. Born in Austria, he trained as a journeyman cabinetmaker and emigrated to the U.S. in 1956. Within a year’s time, he was hired by George Nakashima to work in his studio in New Hope, Pa. Nakashima’s design approach and reverence for craftsmanship matched Franz’s principles of woodworking. Retired from PDS since 1998, Franz has not lost his love of wood or his desire to make beautiful objects. He continues his craft in a style influenced, but not defined, by Nakashima, often using found wood sourced in the Hopewell Valley.

Jansma served on the faculty at Princeton University in Visual Arts, where he taught in the Ceramics Program from 1992-2003. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He’s a four-time Fellowship recipient from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was artist-in-residence/program director at Peters Valley School of Craft in Layton from 1988-99. In 2003 Jansma was an invited international artist at the Anseong Ceramic Art Festival in South Korea, and in 2008 was selected to be the guest artist at the East/West Clay Exhibition in Mashiko, Japan.

For more information, call (609) 333-9393 or visit morpethcontemporary.com.