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

When: Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, July 12th, 13th & 14th | Three-day in person workshop

Time: 10am - 4pm

Participants: Max. 12

Price: $250

We will use mason stains and slips to learn several different techniques for printing on clay. We will also learn to make ceramic ink to use for printing etching plates, linoleum blocks and laser photocopies.

Silk screens and decals will not be part of this class. These are techniques that I learned in a workshop taught by Paul Scott. After each demonstration students will be given time to practice the technique. Students are encouraged to bring images they wish to work with. They should also bring stamps, lino cuts, laser photocopies, and etching plates they wish to print.

BIO

Born and raised in New Braunfels, by German Texans. After graduating from North Texas State University with a degree in history, I joined the Air Force as a way of getting out of the state and seeing something of the world. Surely, I thought, not every place would be as hot and drought ridden as Texas. After tours in Tennessee, Denver, Thailand and Okinawa, I came back to Texas knowing that every place has its hot and dry spells. So ended that eight year career. Next I took up map making and spent years working for various environmental consulting companies in Austin, Texas. For our fortieth birthdays, a friend and I gave ourselves clay lessons at a city funded facility a few blocks from my house. After becoming addicted, I took classes at the Southwest Craft Center, now the Southwest School of Art, in San Antonio, which offered a wider range of courses and experience. Also because the facility in Austin burned. After buying a few acres west of Austin, I built a small house and smaller studio where I work and feed deer, which are much less trouble than the horse I owned in Tennessee.

I make what I do in clay because I want to. Talking about the why and wherefore usually means taking liberties with the truth. What is true one day may not be the next. What you swear by one day, you curse the next. As with all things in nature, a state of flux is the rule and means all is well.