LUNCHTIME CLAY WORKSHOP

August 27, Noon

CLAY is everywhere!  Really.  Clay is in the soil, and in some places, you can find a high percentage of quality clay.  Look at the abundance of pots and bowls and dishes that the indigenous peoples of the American Southwest have produced.  It’s amazing.

At this class, you will work with raw natural clay dug from the local hills.  Once you collect the clay, you test it to determine how pure it is.  Sometimes you add temper, sometimes not. Next, you do some sort of processing, and then set about making a useful product.

You will learn the ways to process clay, and we will be doing one of those methods.

You will process clay, and attempt to make a useful item from the clay.

(We won’t do any firing.)

You will take home whatever you make.

A great opportunity to get outdoors and learn another survival skills