2024 workshops
Lokaa’ Ats’aa’ Dineh’ (2021)
Ram
A Presence of Clay: Gather, Construction, and Firing Techniques
With Artist Jared Tso
Location: Western New Mexico University
When: July 22 - July 26, 2023 : In-Person 5 Day Workshop
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Price: $535.00
Additional Details To Be Announced
Workshop: “A Presence of Clay: Gather, Construction, and Firing Techniques”
with Jared Tso”
This workshop will give a brief overview of the complete process of gathering materials, constructions of vessels, and outdoor firing techniques. We will look at and discuss local clays, and consider what materials will translate to adequate clay bodies, slips, and tempers. The start of the workshop will focus heavily on building methods that consist of a hybrid between coil and pinch. There will be an emphasis on how to prevent coil pots from slouching, bulging, and other steps to create consistency while building. Midway through the week, we will discuss different surface finishing techniques and how these will translate to pitfired works. The week will culminate with an outdoor firing.
Throughout the week, there will be discussions of protocol and things to consider when utilizing these methods. Most importantly, how can we collectively and individually be respectful during knowledge exchange? The goal is to be an addition to the overall fluency in clay through process, materials, and the narrative of our art practice.
About Jared Tso
After a few years of working as an Engineer, and juggling the occasional art exhibition, Jared made the decision to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico. Since its completion in Fall 2021, Jared has pursued art full time and has since continued a trend of awards at SWAIA’s Santa Fe Indian Market.
More recently Jared has received encouragement and recognition of the innovation that accompanies his vessels. There is a rooted intention with each vessel to not only to provide clear context in traditional Navajo Pottery, but to also include further examples that contribute to the definition of Navajo pottery.
Traditional in technique and process, there is a ever growing desire to encourage a further exploration of the timelessness of Navajo pots. Both with form, and the strong and present function of classic Navajo pottery, Jared hopes to make vessels that have a clear visual path of continuity within this ever growing multigenerational portfolio of work.
Bowl 7409
Bowl 5484
King’s Highway
The Painted Pot: Line, Color, Imagery
With Bede Clarke
Location: Diana Ingalls Leyba Studio & Gallery, 315 N Bullard, Silver City NM
When: July 22nd and 23rd from 9-5
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(lunch break from 12-1:30 although you are welcome to work through lunch)
Participants: Class size is limited; exact registration total pending
Price: $300
To register, Please email:
dianaingallsleybastudioandgallery@gmail.com or call 575-388-5725
For more information, please visit: https://www.dianaingallsleybastudioandgallery.com
This hands-on workshop will explore hand-built pottery/sculpture, and drawing/painting on clay with a focus on building a personal approach to form and imagery/design (abstract and representational). Students are encouraged to bring sketches, visual resources, and ideas for imagery they would like to explore. Demonstrations, power-point lectures, and group discussion in this workshop will focus on basic forming and painting skills, but more, we will look to discover the potential of a curious and sensitive dialogue between the artist, the pot/sculpture, line, color, and imagery. Forms created will be decorated with a direct and simple approach to painting with an earthenware underglaze. The technique is suitable for single-firing. Technically, we will cover earthenware clays, slips, and glazes, the use of colored slips/engobes for painting on pots and sculptural form, and approaches to imagery.
Suitable for beginning to advanced students
BIO
Bede Clarke is a Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, having taught at Missouri 1992-2021. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa (1990) and a BFA from Eckerd College (1982). Bede’s work is found in collections in the U.S. and abroad, such as: Taipei County Yingke Ceramics Museum, Taiwan, Ichon World Ceramic Center, South Korea, South Bend Museum of Art, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University.
Bede maintains a studio in Columbia, Missouri where he produces his ceramic art work and continues to exhibit worldwide, recently at: Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS, Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, Mo, University of St. Francis, Ft. Wayne, IN, Schaller Gallery, St. Joseph, MI, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University Bede has conducted over 100 workshops and lectures around the country and internationally.
Awards have included:
• Kansas City Artist Coalition Lighton International Artist Exchange Award
• Sturt Australian Contemporary Craft Center Residency Award
• Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Award, New Zealand
• Kennedy Center Fellowship for Teachers of the Arts
• University of Missouri Byler Distinguished Professor Award
Terra Sigilatta and Naked Raku. 5 Day Workshop
With Javier Cervantes
Location: Bear Mountain Lodge, 60 Bear Mountain Ranch Rd.
P.O. Box 1163, Silver City, NM 88062
When: July 22nd - July 26th 2024
Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Schedule of Events:
Day One:
-Preparation of Terra Sigilatta
-Making paper patterns and begin construction of hollow sculptural forms
Day Two:
-Finish sculptural forms
-Making pinchpot teabowls
Day Three:
-Prepare Sigilatta and application on forms and polishing surface.
-Pinchpot teabowls
Day Four:
-finish all work
Day Five:
-Prepare bisque fired work for naked raku
-Raku firing
Participants: Class size is limited; exact registration total pending
Price: $800. Per person that includes lunch daily and some supplies and firing.
*Limit 8 participants
To register for the workshop or inquire for more details, please contact:
https://www.bearmountainlodge.com
Three Day Clay Wall Carving Workshop
With Athena Steen
WHEN: Wednesday July 24th - Friday July 26th
TIME: 9am – 4:30 pm each day
COST: $300 for 3 days
LOCATION: Whiskey Creek Zócalo 11786 HWY 180 E. Arenas Valley, NM
WHAT TO BRING:
-lunch
-water
-sunscreen
-snacks
-hat
**All tools and materials will be provided. Participants are responsible for their own transportation to and from the workshop site.
**Class Limit – 10 students
Bio
Athena Steen grew up building with clay and adobe. She loves creating sculpted spaces that connect form with function, and walls rich with pattern, texture and color. Through the Canelo Project, a small non-profit organization, Athena has been teaching workshops for over thirty years, in strawbale construction and earthen building. Focused on simple, low-skill, low-cost methods that build community between people, culture and nature. Co-author of The Straw Bale House, Small Strawbale, and Built by Hand, her influence in the natural building world has been wide-spread. When Athena does not have her hands in the mud, she also enjoys publishing and designing books.
This workshop will be held at bar, restaurant, and music venue, Whiskey Creek Zocalo, owned and run by artists Jeff LeBlanc and Melanie Zipin. It is a space that houses creativity, and in this workshop, you will be part of creating a work of art that will remain there for many to enjoy.
CLASS OUTLINE:
Clay wall carving is the process of building up layers of clay plasters in differing colors or textures, and then carving away those layers in forms and shapes to create a 3 dimensional "relief" carving. This technique transforms ordinary, flat walls into amazing works of art, and can drastically transform and elevate a space. It also goes hand and hand with other natural building techniques like earthen walls and plasters.
Day 1: Mix first plaster layer and apply three coats of plaster. Participants will learn about the properties of clay plaster and different mix proportions. They will also learn how to mix and how to apply earthen plasters to an existing earthen wall.
Day 2: Mix and apply three coats of plaster. Between plaster applications, students will learn about various tools such as different trowels, as well as base coats and middle coats for leveling. (perhaps sculpting?)
Day 3: Transfer design on wall and carve. We will work together to carve away layers, leaving a beautiful design. Students will learn about different carving techniques and tools and how to transfer a design onto the wall.
Clay plasters are a natural building material made from subsoil, water, and fibrous
organic material (typically straw). Contents of subsoil naturally vary, and can be modified with sand or clay to create the desired balance.
You can sign up for the workshop https://caneloproject.com/workshop/clay-wall-carving-in-new-mexico/ through the Canelo Project’s website.
For more information and registration details, Please click here
THE ART OF PIGMENT HUNTING
Date: Monday, July 22 & Tuesday July 23
Time: 10am-5pm
Location: Whiskey Creek Zócalo
11786 HWY 180 East
Arenas Valley, NM
Cost: $200
ABOUT SCOTT SUTTON
Pigment Hunter was created by artist and educator Scott Sutton for creating and documenting his work with mineral pigments in the creation of natural paint. Scott has been empowering other artists for over 15 years with the skills and knowledge to use local materials in a sustainable manner to reduce their own ecological footprint on the natural environment.
ART OF PIGMENT HUNTING
The Art of Pigment Hunting workshop during the Silver City Clay Festival will occur prior to the Clay Carving & Painting workshop by Athena Steen of the Canelo Project at Whiskey Creek Zócalo!
Scott will be teaching the Art of Pigment Hunting where we will spend time out in the geological landscape around Silver City. We will use maps of the surrounding geology to help us learn about the unique aspects of this beautiful place revealing the types and locations of minerals and their formations.
The materials will be collected in an environmentally responsible manner and processed through the use of levigation, sifting, and milling to prepare for their use in the clay carving and painting workshop. The clay plasters and mineral pigments will be used to collaboratively create a work of art on an existing adobe wall at Whiskey Creek Zócalo where these workshops are being held.
It will be an honor to collect and process materials to be used for the Clay Carving and Painting with Athena to create a work of art on an adobe wall located at Whiskey Creek Zócalo. The workshop participants can take one or both of the workshops and help create a collaborate mural with local materials.
For more info and to register for this workshop, please go to:
https://www.pigmenthunter.com/workshops.html
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