CLAY Festival Headlining Workshop at WNMU With Jamie Bates Slone

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...

CLAY Play With WNMU Ceramic Students

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...

Exhibit Opening: WNMU Ceramicist Susie Meskill

Susie Meskill, who is completing a post-baccalaureate experience in ceramics at WNMU, will have a solo exhibition at the Grant County Art Guild Annex. The show opens on Wednesday, July 13, during the Silver City CLAY Festival. Susie will also give a demonstration as part of CLAY Festival on Saturday, July 16, at the Grant County Art Guild...