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What: |
MEXICAN POTTERY WORKSHOP AND SLIDESHOW LECTURE Featuring Four Traditional Master Potters from Oaxaca and Jalisco |
Where: |
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Granville Island, Vancouver |
When: |
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2007 Demonstration/Workshop: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM |
Cost:
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Full workshop and Slide Show/Lecture: $25.00 |
For Campus Location and Other Information: |
Nora Vaillant (604) 730-5840 jvaillant@telus.net |
 Mexico has an immensely rich history in ceramics dating back four millennia. We are honored by the visit of four recognized master potters from the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Jalisco. The master potters will be in Vancouver on May 9, 2007,offering a day-long workshop demonstrating pre-Columbian hand forming and polychrome decoration techniques, slip and burnish, and ornate low-fire sculptural work. Their work represents 4,000 years of living tradition and is infused both with 200 generations of ceramic heritage and the changes of the 21st century. The potters come from three distinctive pottery villages. Macrina Mateo Martinez and Alberta Sanchez Mateo are indigenous Zapotec potters who create traditional slipware from San Marcos Tlapazola, a Zapotec village in the central valley of Oaxaca State. They will demonstrate entirely pre-hispanic techniques of hand-building using corncobs and gourd ribs. Anjelica Vazquez C. sculpts legends and myths with the clay of her village of Atzompa, the largest pottery producing village in the state of Oaxaca, And from Tonala, Jalisco, Angel Santos Suarez will demonstrate the use of polychrome slips and burnishing to create fabulous surface decorations. Angel’s pieces are formed in clay or plaster press molds and then, while still green, decorative work begins using a variety of slips applied with handmade brushes of squirrel hair. These villages have unique histories in clay and each of these potters has a special relationship with that history. They will share with us their techniques in clay as well as stories about their work and ways. Additionally, we will enjoy a slide show and video presentation by Mexican pottery specialist, Eric Mindling. Eric is an American potter who has lived in Oaxaca for 15 years. Familiar with a wide range of traditional Mexican pottery styles and histories, he will act as translator during the demonstrations and will present a slide show that portrays the homes, villages, and work of these and other potters from southern Mexico that gives us a sense of the depth and breadth of the ancient-contemporary pottery ways that are so vital in Mexico. |
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