clay festival annual juried exhibition

PERCEPTION

This exhibition is a call for ceramic artwork that explores the concept of Perception—how we see, interpret, and interact with the world around us.

All types of ceramic work are welcome.
The exhibition will be juried anonymously through the submission of digital images.

Perception invites ceramic artists to submit work that delves into this idea, examining personal, cultural, and sensory interpretations of their environment and experiences.

WHEN:

Opening Reception: July 4th, 5-7PM
Closing Reception: July 19 6-8PM

Perception will run from July 3rd - July 20th.

LOCATION:

Light Art Space

209 W. Broadway, Silver City, NM 88061


Submission Deadline: June 3rd, 2025 11:59PM (MST)


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Workshop

TattOoing Fine Lines Into Round Pots…

with Bianka Groves

Think outside the glaze.

This workshop will focus on forms and surfaces outside the everyday glazed vessel. Students will concentrate on enhancing their wheel-throwing skills as well as honing in on their own individual aesthetic interests. Make pots then inlay designs and compositions into the surfaces in a manner similar to tattooing. Alongside demos, exercises, and class discussions, students will add their personal touches to complete a new body of work.

Location: Western New Mexico University

Date and Time: July 14-18, 2025

10am-5pm daily with lunch break

Price: $535.00



Workshop

A PATCHWORK OF PATTERN PLAY

With Artist Miranda Howe

A PATCHWORK OF PATTERN PLAY

With Artist Miranda Howe

In this 2-day hands-on workshop, we will create a slab constructed form that will become our ‘canvas’ for experimenting with surface decoration techniques with an emphasis on using underglazes.  We will cover applications best done in the wet and leather hard stage including embossing, mishima (inlay), slip-trailing, creating paper and Tyvek stencils and silk-screening.  Additionally, we will create ‘applique’ components created on a plaster surface and then transfer them onto our form.  Come join the fun!

Location: Diana Ingalls Leyba Studio & Gallery 315 N Bullard St, Silver City, NM 88061

Date: Saturday, July 12th & Sunday, July 13th 

Time: Class will meet 10AM-4PM each of these days.

Price: $350.00

Registration:

Please Contact:

email: dianaingallsleybastudio@gmail.com

or

phone: 575 388-5725

 

Workshop

Surface exploration and developmenT

with Jessica Wilson

Develop your own surfacing style.

Focus on development and exploration of surface treatments such as sgraffito, mishima, shellac resist, wax resist, paper resist, image transfer, slip trailing, decals, lithography printing on clay and glaze application. Students will learn these techniques as well as execute them and build their own surface vocabulary.


Location: The Bear Mountain Lodge at 60 Bear Mountain Ranch Rd, Silver City, NM 88061

Date: July 14th-16th, 2025 (3-Day Workshop)

Time: Class will meet 10AM-4PM each of these days.

Price: $250.00

To register for this workshop, please contact Linda Gills at The Bear Mountain Lodge.

Email: info@bearmountainlodge.com
Phone: (575) 538-2538


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WEATHERED PATTERNS

Miranda Howe

Artist: Miranda Howe

Ceramic artist, Miranda Howe, grew up in New Mexico and comes from a family of artists.  She received her BFA from Texas Tech University, studied at the Aegean Center for Fine Arts in Greece, and completed her MFA from Montana State University in 2002. 

Miranda has been accepted into art residencies at Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, LH Project, Roswell Artist-in-Residence and Kohler Arts/Industry Program. Coming full-circle in returning to New Mexico, Miranda established her studio, Bone Springs Art Space, in a renovated historic warehouse in Roswell. Through the ongoing development of Bone Springs, she extends her love of teaching and community involvement by providing youth and adult classes, gallery exhibitions, event programming, and maintaining a retail gift shop featuring artwork by local and regional artists .

Artist Statement:

My ceramic work moves in two directions- one satisfies a need to create utilitarian pieces that easily become incorporated into one's daily routine, while the other explores interests in larger sculptural forms.  Though very different in scale, idea, and purpose, both continually run parallel to and echo one another.

Travels abroad have influenced the decorative and ornamental qualities of my work.  Patterns, textures, and colors are often reminiscent of crumbling walls, inlaid marble flooring, tightly woven textiles, and ornate mosaics.  These decorative elements propagate a rhythm and cadence, lending themselves to meditative qualities. I explore the properties of this rhythm, as well as highlight the breaks or voids which interrupt that flow.  Geologic elements such as fault lines, crevices or fissures are used to disrupt the predicted regularity of the decorative, exposing the information beneath the surface and providing glimpses into the secret spaces within.

Gallery Talk and Reception

Sunday, July 13th 5-7pm

Diana Ingalls Leyba Studio and Gallery | 315 N Bullard St, Silver City, NM 88061

 

THE CLAY MARKEt at the HISTORIC MURRAY HOTEL

2025 CLAY FESTIVAL MARKET INFORMATION

 

The CLAY Market is an integral part of the annual CLAY Festival in Silver City, NM, allowing local and out-of-area artists to display and sell their clay-centric wares. More info here

LOCATION: Silver City’s Historic Murray Hotel
200 W. Broadway St., Silver City, NM 88061

(575)-956-9400

www.Murray-Hotel.com

MARKET DATES/HOURS:

Saturday, July 19th …..10am-4pm

Sunday, July 20th ……..11am-2pm


Book Presentation and Live Mata Ortiz Pottery Demonstration

 





Saturday July 19, 2025 | 10:00pm – 3:00pm
Silver City Museum Annex
302 West Broadway

More info
here


workshop

Sculpted Earthen Bench

With Athena Steen and Danielle Felgenhauer

Learn the fundamentals of natural building while helping craft a sculptural, functional earthen bench using clay, sand, straw, and stone. Participants will gain hands-on experience with cob construction, adobe and straw-clay blocks, stone foundations, and clay sculpting techniques.
Led by renowned natural builders Athena Steen and Danielle Felgenhauer, this workshop offers the chance to learn from Athena, a leader in the revival of earthen architecture with decades of experience in sustainable design and building.

Location: Whiskey Creek Zócalo , 11786 US-180 East, Arenas Valley, NM 88022
Dates: Jul 16 -Jul 18, 2025 (3 day workshop)
Time: 10 AM- 4 PM
Cost: $375

 

workshop

The Art of pigment hunting

with The Pigment Hunter

Explore Silver City’s geological landscape while learning to identify, responsibly collect, and process natural pigments and clays for use in ceramics, clay bodies, plasters, slips, glazes, and paints. Participants will use maps to study local mineral formations and prepare materials through levigation, sifting, and milling.
Led by The Pigment Hunter, an artist dedicated to working with naturally sourced materials in direct relationship with the land.

Location: Whiskey Creek Zócalo , 11786 US-180 East, Arenas Valley, NM 88022

Dates: Jul 14-Jul 15, 2025 (2 day workshop)

Time: 10 AM- 5 PM

Cost: $250

 

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shades of clay

with Kate Brown and Barry Gillen

more info coming soon

 

SILVER CITY CLAYFEST 2025

SILVER CITY CLAYFEST 2025 •