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
Perception will run from July 3rd - July 20th.
LOCATION:
209 W. Broadway, Silver City, NM 88061
Submission Deadline: May 31st, 2025 11:59PM (MST)
exhibition
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.
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.
exhibtion
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 AND CONTRACT
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. Space is limited to seventeen 9’x9’ booths, which can be shared.
LOCATION:
Silver City’s Historic Murray Hotel
200 W. Broadway St., Silver City, NM 88061
(575)-956-9400
MARKET DATES/HOURS:
Saturday, July 19th …..10am-4pm
Sunday, July 20th ……..11am-2pm
