CLAY Festival activities on Saturday, July 29, 2017

Photos by Mary Alice Murphy

Several events and activities relating to this year's CLAY Festival, which ended on Sunday, July 30, 2017, took place around Silver City.

The area in front of the Market Café on Bullard Street was abuzz with the judging of the Mud Pie contest and kids working on a wood and chicken wire frame of a car.

At the beginning of the Mud Pie contest, only three pies had been received, but as time went on, a total of eight pies were entered into the contest. Three of the first four won prizes. Sue Been again took first, this time with her chocolate, lemon and cherry pie; Zeyah Pearson won for her Bunny Mud pie, which featured, of course, a chocolate pie, but with a twist of being decorated with marshmallow bunnies; and Diane Barrett took third for her Mud/Clay pie.

Judges for the pie contest were Silver City Arts and Cultural District Executive Director Callie Kennington; Andie Portillo of the Silver City Recreation Center and Jennifer Olson, Independent editor.

At A-Space, earlier in the morning, kids had the opportunity to make stick figures using recycled items.
At the Silver City Museum Annex, a demonstration of Mata Ortiz detail painting was ongoing through the morning by Oralia Lopez.