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, there will be two Lectures on the Mimbres Culture on July 14, from 4 to 6 p.m. Where: Light Hall Auditorium Register in advance to attend virtually HERE. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Sourcing Clays and Finding Potters, Danni Romero, WNMU Museum Director Neutron Activation Analysis is a clay sourcing technique that has allowed archaeologists to pinpoint various prehistoric ceramic production centers in the Mimbres Valley. As vessels are being grouped by their production locale, certain design patterns and similarities are becoming more apparent pointing to individual potters or potting families that share design attributes. This talk will focus on the ceramics from the Elk Ridge site, a large Classic period pueblo, to discuss the movement of vessels to and from the site as well as a distinct style seen on bowls produced at the site. Feather Imagery...
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