sold out - waitlist available

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 be placed on the waitlist, Please email:

dianaingallsleybastudioandgallery@gmail.com or call 575-388-5725

For more information, please visit: dianaingallsleybastudio@gmail.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

SOLD OUT

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

Please scroll to the bottom of workshops to register. It is the last one on the page.

ONE MILLION BONES COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

Saturday, July 27, 11 AM - 2 PM

FREE TO THE PUBLIC, NO REGISTRATION NEEDED

Join us in the garden at Light Art Space to create clay bones to be added to the permanent home of the Million Bones Project at Bear Mountain Lodge.

ONE MILLION BONES

On June 8, 2013, over one million hand-made bones were laid on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. as a visible petition against the ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan, South Sudan, Congo, Burma, and Syria. The project started in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the vision of installation artist Naomi Natale, who wanted to make the problem of genocide visible to the world. Nearly 150,000 people, from all 50 States and 30 foreign countries, ultimately participated in the One Million Bones project. Following the installation on the National Mall, the bones were removed and stored, waiting for their next calling.

During a talk at Western New Mexico University, the question arose as to where the bones should finally lay. The community of Silver City came together and decided to embrace the One Million Bones project as its own, here on the grounds of the Bear Mountain Lodge. In April 2018, ceramic bones remaining from the original installation started to be laid in this meadow.

We invite you to join us in the continuation of this project. There are many bones yet to be laid. You are welcome to make your own bone to offer, and we continue to encourage advocacy for the survivors and victims of these tragedies, which continue today. Most of all, we ask you to reflect on the meaning of these bones, that they represent the millions of people whose voices have been silenced by brutality, greed, and denial.

LEARN MORE: WWW.ONEMILLIONBONES.NET

WWW.THEARTOFREVOLUTION.ORG