The Silver City CLAY Festival Announcement

Here is the newsletter for the Silver City Clay Festival.

Registration is now open for workshops, tours, lectures, and more!

The Silver City CLAY Festival will take place July 22 - 30, 2017.
Register now for a workshop - space is limited!

Visit our website to see more CLAY Festival offerings

Bede Clarke Workshop
Drawing and Painting on Clay: Line, Color, Imagery

This 5-day workshop will take place July 24-28, Monday-Friday, during the week of CLAY. The CLAY Festival is partnering with Western New Mexico University to offer this workshop as a 2-credit college course! It is also open to participants who do not need college credit.

Space is limited, register soon!

Click here to register for the Bede Clarke workshop

Marko Fields Workshop
Printmaking in Clay and Building Vessels with Decorated Slabs

This 3-day workshop will take place July 26-28, Wednesday-Friday during the week of CLAY. This workshop is results-driven and will include quick demos on handles, cylinders from slabs, cylinders from dowels and better clay boxes/envelope vessels.

Click here to register for the Marko Fields workshop

Zoe Wolfe Workshop
Kimchee Pots

This 1-day handbuilding workshop on Monday, July 24th comes with the option to add Part 2: Glazing on Friday, July 28th. The focus will be on the making of ceramic pots specific for making kimchee: a fermented vegetable dish.

Click here to register for the Zoe Wolfe workshop

Louise Sackett Workshop
Plein Air Simplified

This year CLAY is offering a 3-day plein air painting workshop Friday-Sunday, July 21st-23rd. Learn to paint outdoors at the beautiful location of Bear Paw Ranch in Gila, NM.

Click here to register for the Louise Sackett workshop

Herbie Marsden Workshop
Natural Home Building

Experience a passive solar mud house in this hands-on workshop and learn the basics to build your own structure. Herbie will show you clay bearing earthen building techniques with clay-rich soil in two fast hours of fun on
Sunday, July 23rd.

Click here to register for the Herbie Marsden workshop

Stay tuned for more workshops and events!