Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
CLAY Festival Silver City Museum 071523
CLAY Festival Silver City Museum 071523
Oralia Lopez of Mata Ortiz paints fine lines on her pottery with a very fine brush
CLAY Festival Silver City Museum 071523
Oralia Lopez created these two pots out of many from Mata Ortiz that were on sale.
CLAY Festival Silver City Museum 071523
The Silver City Museum also offered a clay making workshop. Oralia Sowers and Derek and Zachary Clark worked on their creations.
CLAY Festival Silver City Museum 071523
Oralia Sowers created a complicated design on her small pot.
The Clay Festival took place all over town in Silver City. The Silver City Museum Annex featured a demonstration by Oralia Lopez of Mata Ortiz showing her fine brush technique. In the museum, a pottery-making workshop for kids and adults drew many to test their creativity. At the time, this photographer was there, three children were working on refining their pots.