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If you're a clay artist, August/Sept will definitely be your favorite time of year!
Check out our workshops...
paper
clay
Judy Nelson-Moore
2-days with the best... Santa Fe paper clay artist extraordinaire
Think
September 3rd and 4th
10am to 4pm
This hands-on workshop will explore the use of paper pulp added to clay to allow participants to break rules and achieve hand-built sculptural forms that would be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve working with standard clay. Participants will learn the process of making paper clay, explore traditional and non-traditional clay forming techniques, and discuss the many finishing options that one may use. Hand-built pieces made in this workshop can be fired in the same manner as regular clay or may be left unfired and finished with cold surfacing. This will be a fun and informative 2-day workshop that may just open your eyes to an all new way to look at clay!
$395/Participant for 2-days, clay included
ONLY 1 SPOT LEFT! Register Before It Fills!
Judy is an award-winning clay artist who works in her Santa Fe based, Dancing Mud Studio. She creates
fired and unfired sculpture, frequently adding mixed media during the construction process or after the firing. Judy grew up in Colorado and pursued dual careers as a computer software consultant and clay sculptor. She graduated from Colorado State University in 1971 and moved to NM with her husband, Jim, in 1992. Since retiring from computer work in 2013, she concentrates on her clay work dedicated primarily to paper clay.
August 20th and 21st
10am to 4pm
An illuminating 2-day workshop with Taos artist and educator
Jean Holmgren
Sgraffito Demystified!
This two-day immersive workshop will introduce you to sgraffito and allow you to release your inner clay artist. In addition to working the surface of the clay, we will explore design and drawing principles. Particular focus will be on the paper resist sgraffito technique and mishima, which is a wax resist method of inscribing or inlaying underglaze in smaller, more delicate lines.
We encourage you to bring your existing leather-hard pieces (if you have any). If not, some leather-hard tumblers will be available for you (please be sure to let us know when you register) to apply your sgraffito patterns or figures with your newly acquired skill. Sgraffito is derived from the Italian “graffiare” (to scratch) which in clay terms is defined by applying an underglaze or slip and “scratching” away the colored surface to reveal the contrasting clay beneath.
$325/Participant + $6 for sgraffito tool (if you do not have one)
Jean Holmgren is originally from Memphis, Tennessee and
immigrated to Taos about three years ago. She is a recent clay convert, changing her long-time focus from graphic design and traditional media to the more substantial, utilitarian and evocative substrate of clay. Jean received her BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus, Ohio) in Illustration and Graphic Design and earned her MFA from Memphis College of Art (Memphis,TN) in Studio Arts. Jean has worked as a freelance illustrator, a graphic designer, an instructor at University of Memphis and as an Assistant Professor at Memphis College of Art in Design Arts, Illustration concentration.
August 27th and 28th
10am-4pm
A remarkable 2-day workshop with the incomparable
Debra Fritts
more
so much
Working from memory and the imagination, participants will construct a head using coils. Detail information will be shared on facial features. We will discuss the use of symbols to enable each piece to have a unique personal statement. Surface decoration on the wet clay will be explored by using slips, oxides, dry clay, and mark making.
$425/Participant for 2-days, clay included
REGISTER ONLINE BELOW or CALL 575.758.2580 (please leave message if no answer)
SOLD OUT!
Debra Fritts is a ceramic artist living and working in Abiquiu, NM. She earned a degree in art education at the university of Tennessee and continued her education in graduate studies in painting, ceramics, and printmaking. Working intuitively with clay, Debra’s sculptures have a narrative and spiritual quality which intrigues the viewer. Nature and daily living are her resources. Debra's work is included in many private and public collections, ceramic books and magazines.
August 13th and 14th
10am to 4pm
A fascinating 2-day workshop presented by Santa Fe's amazing
Luisa Baldinger
Step
ping
out.
Known for her exquisite organic vessels that showcase a vast array of surface treatments and finishes, Luisa Baldinger has prepared a wonderful 2-day workshop to share her forming and finishing techniques with you. She will demonstrate how to transform soft slabs into lush and full forms, and how to bring surfaces to life with textures, multiple layering of terra sigillata & engobes, as well as other surface treatments. Participants will also be invited to fire their work at Luisa's Santa Fe studio in an aluminum foil saggar at a future date with only a small fee to cover firing expenses.
$395/Participant for 2-days, clay included
REGISTER ONLINE BELOW or CALL 575.758.2580 (please leave message if no answer)
IT WAS AMAZING! SORRY YOU MISSED IT!
A Santa Fe native, Luisa attended Colorado College and majored in art. Following graduation, she joined the Peace Corps and lived in Peru where, high up in the Andes, she was introduced to pottery making. Back in the US, Luisa pursued graduate work at Ohio University and in 1968 began her career in ceramics. In 1980, she married Santa Fe potter Frank Willett and together they began an illustrious 40-year journey making functional and architectural ceramics. In 2003, she shifted her focus to concentrate on the development of her personal work.
August Workshops to be
Listed by June 1!
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March 14th & 15th
10:00am to 5:00pm
MOLD MAKING: Expanding the Possibilities
A 2-day workshop led by TCC Artist-in-Residence:
Byron Ashley
This two-day workshop is beginner-friendly and will cover designing and creating plaster molds primarily for texture molds, slip casting, and press molding clay. We will go over plaster mixing, and multi-part molds. There will be a combination of demonstration and hands-on participation. Students are asked to bring a few small items for making texture molds and ideas for slump/hump molds. We will choose one plaster slip-cast mold project per student to work on through the weekend. Think of utilitarian and vase-like objects. Some clay experience is helpful. Tools, clay and plaster will be provided.
$375 / Participant (Limited to 8) A bag lunch is suggested.
Thank you to all who enjoyed this workshop!
Byron Ashley is a ceramist from Topeka, KS. He graduated from Kansas State University with a B.F.A. in studio art in 2019. In 2025, Byron completed his M.F.A. in studio art from Texas Tech University. His work features ceramic objects of discarded products and screen printed labeling. Byron completed an artist residency with Chautauqua Institute and a short term residency with Red Lodge Clay Center before becoming a resident at the Taos Ceramics Center in January 2026. His work has been recently featured in the exhibitions CraftTexas 2025, What Holds: Ceramic Boxes and the Language of Containment, and MARFA Invitational.
March 21st & 22nd
10:00am to 4:00pm
A 2-day workshop led by the incomparable Taos Pueblo artist:
ANGIE
YAZZIE
The art of micaceous pottery
The TCC could not be more excited to be hosting Angie Yazzie for a workshop that is sure to be unforgettable. This is a rare opportunity to spend 2 days with this extraordinary woman and ceramic artist who is prepared to share techniques that have been passed on through generations for hand-building pottery from micaceous clays. Angie will demonstrate the art of coiling through finishing and speak about the nature and qualities of her designs. She, assisted by her son and potter Eric Marcus, will work hands-on with all workshop participants. You will leave with not only a refined knowledge of clay but with an experience you won't soon forget. This workshop does require some prior experience with clay. Angie will have several examples of her work on display and available for purchase on Sunday.
$495 / Participant (Limited to 8) A bag lunch is suggested.
Angie Yazzie was born and has lived on the Taos Pueblo throughout her life. She is an award-winning micaceous clay potter and has work featured in the permanent collections of Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, and many others. Angie was Introduced to traditional pottery techniques by her mother, Mary Archuleta, and grandmother, Isabel Archuleta. She was invited to a convocation of Master Potters at the School for Advanced Research in 1994, leading to the book "All That Glitters." Yazzie's work is known for its slender walls and unique shapes. She was the recipient of the 2022 New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Eric Marcus, Angie Yazzie's son, has been working with clay for as long as he can remember. Eric started out making clay pipes about 10 years ago. All along, he would “help out” his mother, Angie, with coiling. Over time, he picked up additional techniques that are necessary in refining one’s hand-building practice. As time passed, he began making his own magnificent work and has developed a unique style with micaceous clay.