Photos by Mary Alice Murphy

The 2024 CLAY Festival held a CLAY market Saturday, July 27, and Sunday, July 28, at the Murray Hotel in downtown Silver City.

Organized this year by  Western New Mexico University Associate Professor of Ceramic and Expressive Arts, as well as Department Chair of Expressive Arts Courtney Michaud, the entire CLAY Festival, which began earlier in the week, culminated in the market. She was on hand to answer questions.

The market featured local ceramics artists, as well as out-of-town ones from Roswell, Las Cruces and Santa Fe, and it also drew in several artists from Tucson, Arizona.

The variety and creativity of these artists showed in their work, all of which once began as a lump of clay. 

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