Upcoming Workshops
Friday, Saturday & Sunday | June 22nd - 23rd
from 9am-3:30pm (lunch 12-1:30 although you are welcome to work through lunch)
Must preregister
Cost: $450
Includes materials. Pre-registration is a must, class size is limited.
Where: Diana Ingalls Leyba Studio & Gallery, 315 N Bullard, Silver City NM
Email or Call to register:
575-388-5725 dianaingallsleybastudio@gmail.com
Plein Air with Chris Alvarez
Tune up your outdoor painting skills in idyllic southern New Mexico during this weekend workshop taught by Silver City native and nationally known artist Chris Alvarez. We'll explore the various settings of the Land of Enchantment from mountains and deserts to rural and small-town scenes. We'll cover color mixing, composition, draftsmanship, value, and temperature during this fun and challenging weekend of plein air painting.
Must pre-register!
Monday, July 22nd and Tuesday, 23rd
from 9am-5pm (lunch 12-1:30 although you are welcome to work through lunch)
Must preregister
Cost: $300
Includes materials. Pre-registration is a must, class size is limited.
Where: Diana Ingalls Leyba Studio & Gallery, 315 N Bullard, Silver City NM
Email or Call to register:
575-388-5725 dianaingallsleybastudio@gmail.com
The Painted Pot: Line, Color, Imagery with Bede Clarke
This hands-on workshop will explore hand-built pottery/sculpture, and drawing/painting on clay with a focus on building a personal approach to form and imagery/design (abstract and representational). Students are encouraged to bring sketches, visual resources, and ideas for imagery they would like to explore. Demonstrations, power-point lectures, and group discussion in this workshop will focus on basic forming and painting skills, but more, we will look to discover the potential of a curious and sensitive dialogue between the artist, the pot/sculpture, line, color, and imagery.
Forms created will be decorated with a direct and simple approach to painting with an earthenware underglaze. The technique is suitable for single-firing. Technically, we will cover earthenware clays, slips, and glazes, the use of colored slips/engobes for painting on pots and sculptural form, and approaches to imagery.
Suitable for beginning to advanced levels, or, for drawing/painting students wishing to crossover into clay work.
Bede Clarke is a Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, having taught at Missouri 1992- 2021. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa (1990) and a BFA from Eckerd College (1982). Bede’s work is found in collections in the U.S. and abroad, such as: Taipei County Yingke Ceramics Museum, Taiwan, Ichon World Ceramic Center, South Korea, South Bend Museum of Art, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University. Bede maintains a studio in Columbia, Missouri where he produces his ceramic art work and continues to exhibit worldwide, recently at: Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS, Belger Crane Yard
Studios, Kansas City, Mo, University of St. Francis, Ft. Wayne, IN, Schaller Gallery, St. Joseph, MI, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University Bede has conducted over 100 workshops and lectures around the country and internationally.
Awards include:
• Kansas City Artist Coalition Lighton International Artist Exchange Award
• Sturt Australian Contemporary Craft Center Residency Award
• Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Award, New Zealand
• Kennedy Center Fellowship for Teachers of the Arts
• University of Missouri Byler Distinguished Professor AwardPreregistration is required to reserve your spot.