Ancient Forms: Handbuilding & Pit Firing

  Saturdays Sept. 28th 2pm-5pm Handbuildling Instruction Oct. 5th 2pm-5pm Handbuildling Instruction Oct. 12th 2pm-5pm Terra Sigulatta Application Oct. 26th 10am-4pm PIT FIRE DAY (Subject to change. Weather permitting.) Oct. 27th 2PM-4PM Finishing  Earthenware is a dialogue with the elements; listening and responding to the ways of fire, conversing with the variable personalities of wild clays, and discovering the beauty of hand shaped forms for everyday use.Earthenware is a lineage craft in many cultures around the world, each with rich traditional cuisines, historical shapes and decorations, as well as family claims to clay gathering sites. However, with the prevalence of technological method for making pottery, these ancient techniques for building with earth and firing on the earth have been less valued and visible in modern ceramics. The very use of wild clays can be a profoundly enriching way to connect with the land and to literally build a relationship with it.Earthenwa