The Silver City CLAY Festival headlining workshop with Jamie Bates Slone is a 5-day figurative sculpting workshop at WNMU McCray ceramics studios. The facilitator is a well-known artist and educator from Oklahoma. During this 5-day workshop students will learn to look at the human face objectively by breaking it down into its parts. Students will begin by sculpting the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears creating multiple tiles and small vignettes. This exercise will lead to creating a self-portrait out of clay. Each piece will be built solid and hollowed out for complete freedom while sculpting. The self-portraits will begin with general rules of proportion and will end with a complete detailed image of the sculptor. Anatomy, underlying bone structure, musculature, expression, clay and surface will be discussed. Underglaze decorating techniques will be discussed if time permits. **Clay and continental breakfast included. Material list to be sent prior to arrival. Lodging not...
As part of the Silver City CLAY Festival, WNMU ceramic students Ashley Burrows, Yen Chu and Victoria Prejean will be leading the children’s CLAY Play days at the Silver City Public Library from Tuesday, July 12, through Thursday, July...
As part of the Silver City CLAY Festival, the WNMU McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art will host a photography exhibition by Ann McMahon, a local photographer who documented the mining history of the region. The opening reception at WNMU Francis McCray Gallery is on Tuesday, July 12, at 5 p.m. Ann McMahon – Frozen Windows From the Past runs through July 17. Beginning in 2012, Ann McMahon accepted the opportunity to photographically document Grant County’s mining history and mineral wealth. To date, more than one hundred Master Images have been produced, many of them of history that no longer exits. The prints in this exhibit are a sampling of these images, selected by a focus group of individuals....
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