Traditional Micaceous Pottery With Martha Romero – G25010106
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This 3-week course will cover traditional pueblo pottery clay processing, hand building, cutting, squaring, sanding, slip application, stone polishing and pit firing techniques. We will use Micaceous clay that was hand gathered and processed as well as commercial clay. We will review traditional pottery shapes and their uses by pueblo people.
With this in mind students will build utilitarian pottery such as cups, bowls, cooking pots, etc. Students will work to complete at least two pottery vessels that we will then fire outdoors in an open pit fire. Students will be responsible for getting their pottery home with the help of Ghost Ranch Staff.
Instructor
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Martha RomeroMartha Romero “Kwahtenbay (Rainbow)” is from the Pueblo of Nambe. She is a traditional pueblo potter and utilizes hand building techniques to create both utilitarian and contemporary pottery. She learned about Mother Clay as a young child, felt the calling and believes that a true potter will come to know it.
She has studied for over 15 years at Poeh Cultural Center with Pottery Masters Clarence Cruz, Pamela Lujan-Hauer and Michael Bancroft. She has participated in many of the major Native American art shows in the Southwest and the Heard Museum Art Show in Arizona. She has been a collaborator in the” Grounded in Clay” Exhibit and the “Di Wae Powa: They Came Back” Exhibit. The utilitarian aspect of pottery is very important to her and she will teach how to process raw materials and the hand building of micaceous clay with an emphasis in the utilitarian aspect.