Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
CLAY Festival Market 072019
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Regina Valles, Carla Martinez, Victoria Valles and Diego Valles with pottery from Mata Ortiz, Mexico
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Andrea Serna learns from Sue Porter how to build a coil bottom for a clay pot
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Stuart Goldberg of Tucson with one of his stoneware bowls
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Jaren Stroback with a piece of his pottery
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Karen Lauseng sets up her cuttlebone casting of pewter jewelry demonstration
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Star Belsky and Jeff Ray chat at the market
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Virginia Thompson of Sierra Vista, AZ, with a teapot
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Karen Nakakihara shops for jewelry
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Nancy and Bob Phillips of Roswell with a piece of their whimsical work
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Victoria Martine of Tucson shows a piece of jewelry
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Frank Tomizuka with his pottery for sale
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Pam Lujan-Hauer of Taos has her work for sale
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Silver City Mayor Ken Ladner makes the rounds
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Angelica Padilla provides the background music
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Penny Flick checks out one of Romaine Begay's covered bowls
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Owen Laurion of Albuquerque with some of his pottery wares
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Carmen Ruiz with one of her clay pieces
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Lee Gruber, founder of the CLAY Festival promotes it with CLAY bags
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Mary Giardina sells one of her plates to a delighted potter from Carlsbad, Laurene Dunn
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Karen Lauseng heats the pewter in preparation for pouring
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Sharon K. Miller sells her Clay series of books
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Romaine Begay shows one of his pieces
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Sebastian and Bijou Lin and Aria Jones work in clay
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Krissy Ramirez helps Tally Lawton form a pot on a wheel
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Joao Galera from Brazil, who will serve this year as artist in residence for WNMU and Silver City, sketches a building
CLAY Festival Market 072019
A piece of jewelry formed in a cuttlebone filled with liquid pewter
CLAY Festival Market 072019
Geronimo Cassidy starts to carve a piece of cuttlebone to create a form for a piece of jewelry
The CLAY Festival Market this year was held on two pieces of closed Market Street. The east side featured the vendors with pottery and related items. The west side had food vendors.
Several demonstrations on the east side helped adults and children work in clay. One area had adults working with creating a pot or plate or bowl. Another area invited adults and children to try their hand at throwing a pot on a wheel. Several of the multi-day workshop teachers were on hand to promote their own pottery and stoneware items.
One demonstration featured the use of cuttlebone to carve out a design into which liquid pewter would be poured to become a piece of jewelry.