Suzanne Storer on fri 30 oct 98
Hola Clay people,
I would like to encourage you to consider attending Eric Mindling's pottery
workshops in and around Oaxaca, Mexico. I attended the San Marcos workshop
last year and this is an amazing opportunity NOT TO BE MISSED. Eric tells
me he still has openings for the hands-on San Marcos workshop. (No, I've
no affiliation other than as a professional studio potter and attendee).
In his previous posts promoting his workshops, Eric has presented what I
found to be an accurate account of his workshops and life around Oaxaca.
The all important FOOD prepared by his personal cook was outstanding, the
Mateo sisters and their Mama were a joy to be around and work with, I
fulfilled my personal desire of getting an intimate glimpse of what it may
have been like were I to have been born into a family of potters instead of
scientists, my own work has grown as a result and, most importantly, I have
a real appreciation for the character of the people I met in southern
Mexico who are rich in family and friends and materially poor. As a result
I realized that there is much to learned in my own backyard from the large
hispanic community here in Ogden, Utah and I've been motivated to become
involved through art when the opportunity presents itself.
Boy, this has turned into a real testimonial!!! Anyway, it was so cool to
be out digging clay the Zapotec way within 24 hours of my arrival in
Oaxaca! I've not been keeping up with Clayart lately so if anyone wants to
reply to me please do so privately.
Cheers, Suzanne sstorer@utah-inter.net
Rachel and Eric on sat 17 jul 99
Dear potters- this is the official announcent for this winter's
field trips into hidden Oaxaca. The Oaxacan Workshops take potters into the
backcountry of southern Mexico. This is the world of ancient, traditional
potters. We work with masters, studying these 4,000 year old, low fire
pottery ways. You don't have to speak Spanish, I take care of that. You
needn't speak Zapotec, Mixe or Mixtec either. The only pre-requisites are a
love for pottery and a sense of adventure.
Please contact me for more info and with questions. Eric Mindling
1999-2000 Field Season
FIVE VILLAGE FIELD STUDY: Oct. 18-23. A six day journey into the pottery
villages of Oaxaca to examine five different Mesoamerican clay traditions.
We will see forming techniques, finishes and firings. Visits to museum
pottery collections and pre-Columbian, Zapotec ruins broaden our
understanding of these ancient cultures.
SAN MARCOS WORKSHOP: Dec. 6-11, Jan 24-29. A muddy hand visit with the
Zapotec master potters of San Marcos. We will mine our clay, process it,
build vessels using living, 4,000 year old methods, slip, burnish and
quickfire our pieces. There will also be visits to two other local pottery
villages to compare methods and styles. A week in the heart of these ancient
villages of potters gives us an inside look at village life as it has been
forever.
PRE-COLUMBIAN WOODFIRING WORKSHOP: Nov. 8-13, Feb. 7-12. A rare look at
pre-Columbian firing methods currently used in three Oaxacan villages:
Tumblestack surface firing, sunken chamber reduction firing and ancient,
stone kiln firing with tannin staining. The special clay bodies used as well
as finishing techniques, from slip and burnish to oak bark dying will also
be explored.
TONALTEPEC WORKSHOP: Feb 28-March 4. This will be the first group of outside
potters ever to study the Tonaltepec method in depth. This tiny settlement
is located in the barren, beautiful, Mixtec high country. We will dig our
clay, form vessels and fire the ancient Tonaltepec kilns with the wild,
post-firing hot staining of the pots.
COST:Tonaltepec Workshop $540, all others $595. Includes tuition, materials,
hotel 7 nights, most meals, local transport and museum entry fees. To tread
lightly, trips are limited in size from 6-8 participants.
For more information e-mail Eric Mindling or fax us
in Mexico, [011-52] (952) 1-4186. Check the web page:
www.foothill.net/~mindling.
Rachel Werling
and/or
Eric Mindling
Manos de Oaxaca
AP 1452
Oaxaca, Oax.
CP 68000
M E X I C O
http://www.foothill.net/~mindling
fax 011 52 (952) 1-4186
email: rayeric@antequera.com
Rachel and Eric on sun 8 aug 99
Dear potters- this is the official announcent for this winter's
field trips into hidden Oaxaca. The Oaxacan Workshops take potters into the
backcountry of southern Mexico. This is the world of ancient, traditional
potters. We work with masters, studying these 4,000 year old, low fire
pottery ways. You don't have to speak Spanish, I take care of that. You
needn't speak Zapotec, Mixe or Mixtec either. The only pre-requisites are a
love for pottery and a sense of adventure.
Please contact me for more info and with questions. Eric Mindling
1999-2000 Field Season
FIVE VILLAGE FIELD STUDY: Oct. 18-23. A six day journey into the pottery
villages of Oaxaca to examine five different Mesoamerican clay traditions.
We will see forming techniques, finishes and firings. Visits to museum
pottery collections and pre-Columbian, Zapotec ruins broaden our
understanding of these ancient cultures.
SAN MARCOS WORKSHOP: Dec. 6-11, Jan 24-29. A muddy hand visit with the
Zapotec master potters of San Marcos. We will mine our clay, process it,
build vessels using living, 4,000 year old methods, slip, burnish and
quickfire our pieces. There will also be visits to two other local pottery
villages to compare methods and styles. A week in the heart of these ancient
villages of potters gives us an inside look at village life as it has been
forever.
PRE-COLUMBIAN WOODFIRING WORKSHOP: Nov. 8-13, Feb. 7-12. A rare look at
pre-Columbian firing methods currently used in three Oaxacan villages:
Tumblestack surface firing, sunken chamber reduction firing and ancient,
stone kiln firing with tannin staining. The special clay bodies used as well
as finishing techniques, from slip and burnish to oak bark dying will also
be explored.
TONALTEPEC WORKSHOP: Feb 28-March 4. This will be the first group of outside
potters ever to study the Tonaltepec method in depth. This tiny settlement
is located in the barren, beautiful, Mixtec high country. We will dig our
clay, form vessels and fire the ancient Tonaltepec kilns with the wild,
post-firing hot staining of the pots.
COST:Tonaltepec Workshop $540, all others $595. Includes tuition, materials,
hotel 7 nights, most meals, local transport and museum entry fees. To tread
lightly, trips are limited in size from 6-8 participants.
For more information e-mail Eric Mindling or fax us
in Mexico, [011-52] (952) 1-4186. Check the web page:
www.foothill.net/~mindling.
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Eric Mindling ^ Rachel Werling
Manos de Oaxaca ^ AP 1452
AP 1452 ^ Oaxaca, Oax.
Oaxaca, Oax. ^ CP 68000
CP 68000 ^ M E X I C O
M E X I C O ^
^ fax: 011 52 (952) 1-4186
http://www.foothill.net/~mindling ^ email: rayeric@antequera.com
fax 011 52 (952) 1-4186 ^
email: rayeric@antequera.com ^
rayeric@RNET.COM.MX on thu 13 jul 00
OAXACAN WORKSHOPS AND JOURNEYS
The Manos de Oaxaca pottery workshops and arts journeys take place in the great state of Oaxaca, Mexico, a place rich in tradition and diversity of indigenous cultures. Our journeys are rare trips into an ancient world that outsiders seldom see. They immerse us in the old ways where we see how pottery, weaving and peasant living have been done for thousands of years. The arts we see are the traditional arts; the trades that have existed in mesoamerica for as long as civilization has existed.
Our groups are purposefully small, 6-8 participants and two guides. These are intimate and personal journeys. Our visits with the artisans, farmers and grandmothers of Oaxaca are face to face, direct visits. The point is to meet, to know, to share, to step inside for a moment, a world different from ours.
SAN MARCOS WORKSHOP. Dec 11-16, 2000. Jan 29-Feb 3, 2001. $595
A muddy hand visit with the Zapotec master potters of San Marcos. We will mine our clay, process it, build vessels using living, 4,000 year old methods, slip, burnish and tumblefire our pieces. A week in the heart of this ancient village of potters gives us an inside look at village life as it has been forever. While our pots dry we値l also visit the pottery villages of Atzompa and Coyotepec.
TONALTEPEC WORKSHOP. Feb. 19-24, 2001. $540
Six days in the tiny settlement of Tonaltepec. A week of solitude, quiet and a sky with a billion stars where for six days we never travel further than we can walk. Tonaltepec is a rancho located in the barren, beautiful, Mixtec high country. We will dig our clay, form vessels and fire the ancient Tonaltepec stone kilns with the wild, postfiring hot staining of the pots.
TRADITIONAL ARTS and BACKROADS of OAXACA . Nov 13-19, 2000. $695
A seven day trip through Oaxaca痴 backroads and a visit to the traditional art villages of Oaxaca. We値l see pottery, fine basketry, weaving, dying, stone work, rope twining, palm plaiting and mescal distilling. Between our visits with artisans we値l make a point of visiting some of Oaxaca痴 finest hidden places; a mineral spring on the edge of the world, a secret pre-Columbian tomb, the mythical birthplace of the Mixtec people in the narrow canyon of Apoala and the immense, redstone ruins of ancient pyramids at the convergence of two rivers unknown to outsiders.
FIBER ARTS of ANCIENT OAXACA. Nov 27- Dec 4, 2000. $795
Eight days in ancient Oaxaca. We will see things seldom, or never seen by tourists or locals. We travel to a small Zapotec village in the Sierra Madre mountains where silk has been cultivated, spun and woven for 450 years. Over the Southern Sierra to the tropical coast to witness the extremely rare process of purple dying using the ink of a shellfish. Seven hundred years ago the purple cottons dyed with these shellfish were paid to the Aztec rulers as tribute. While on the coast we値l sun on glorious beaches and visits with traditional Mixtec weavers and spinners. We will see 16 foot wide looms and indigo dying in the renowned village of Teotitlan, try our hand at red-dying using cochineal, an insect that infests the prickly pear cactus. For spice we値l also visit a paper making workshop, a rope twiners house and a village where fine cane market baskets are woven.
TRIP PRICES include room, transport, museum entry fees, most meals, and materials.
FOR MORE INFORMATION or to make a reservation please contact Eric Mindling at . For more detailed information on the trips, comments by past participants and information about Manos de Oaxaca, visit http//:www.manos-de-oaxaca.com.
WHew536674@CS.COM on sat 12 aug 00
I would have sent this E-mail directly to Eric, but I think there are a few
others out there that it may apply to.
Eric,
I would love to attend one of your work shops, unfortunately I teach and none
of them are scheduled at any vacation times, ie. Christmas break; Spring
break or Summer vacation.
This sounds like a thing that a lot of teachers would be interested in.
Wondering if you could think of scheduling them during our available times.
Thanks,
Joyce A
Mission, TX
WHew536674@cs.com
Rachel and Eric on sat 12 aug 00
The Oaxacan workshops take place in the indigenous pottery villages of
Oaxaca, Mexico. We work with master potters learning pottery methods that
have been used in the Americas since clay was first molded into a vessel. We
also meet some very interesting folks and eat great food. For more
information contact Eric Mindling and visit
www.manos-de-oaxaca.com.
SAN MARCOS WORKSHOP. Dec 11-16, 2000. Jan 29-Feb 3, 2001. A muddy hands
visit with the Zapotec potters of San Marcos (see Ceramics Montly, Feb.
2000). We will mine our clay, process it, build vessels using living, 4,000
year old methods, slip, burnish and surface fire our pieces. A week in this
ancient village of potters also gives us an inside look at village life.
While our pots dry we'll visit the pottery villages of Atzompa and
Coyotepec. $595 (includes instruction, materials, local transport, room,
most meals).
TONALTEPEC WORKSHOP. Feb. 19-24, 2000. Backountry potting. Six days in the
tiny rancho of Tonaltepec, solitude and a billion stars. Our Mixtec teachers
will show us their Pre-Columbian methods of clay prep, forming, stone kiln
firing and wild, post-fire staining with oak bark dye. $540 (includes
instruction, materials, local transport, room, most meals).
TRADITIONAL ARTS and BACKROADS of OAXACA . Nov 13-19, 2000.
A seven-day trip through Oaxaca's backroads and a visit to the traditional
art villages of Oaxaca. We'll see pottery, fine basketry, weaving, dying,
stone work, rope twining, palm plaiting and mescal distilling. Between our
visits with artisans we'll make a point of visiting some of Oaxaca's finest
hidden places; a mineral spring on the edge of the world, a secret
pre-Columbian tomb, the mythical birthplace of the Mixtec people in the
narrow canyon of Apoala and the immense, redstone ruins of ancient pyramids
at the convergence of two rivers unknown to outsiders. $695 (includes
instruction, entry fees, local transport, room, most meals).
FOR MORE INFO contact Eric Mindling and visit
www.manos-de-oaxaca.com.
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Rachel Werling, Biologist
and/or
Eric Mindling, potterologist
www.manos-de-oaxaca.com
email: rayeric@rnet.com.mx
Apto Postal 1452
Oaxaca, Oax.
cp 68000
Mexico
phone 011 52 (954) 7-4534
fax 011 52 (952) 1-4186
Marvin Klotz on mon 14 aug 00
I have participated in a couple of Eric's workshops and hope to join
another next year. He puts on a great show at a bargain price with good
eats thrown in. The groups are small, Eric is great with people and the
village potters clearly love and trust him. By association you get to
share in that trust and friendship. But they don't pot all year in most of
these places - comes the rain they put clay aside and plant their corn
etc. Anyway, drying and preheating the pots in the sun is an important
step in the process. Fall and winter is the dry season so I would think
that Spring and Summer would not work for these workshops. Christmas would
be good - I'd sign on for that.
Joan Klotz
At 11:37 PM 08/12/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>I would have sent this E-mail directly to Eric, but I think there are a few
>others out there that it may apply to.
>Eric,
>I would love to attend one of your work shops, unfortunately I teach and none
>of them are scheduled at any vacation times, ie. Christmas break; Spring
>break or Summer vacation.
>This sounds like a thing that a lot of teachers would be interested in.
>Wondering if you could think of scheduling them during our available times.
>Thanks,
>Joyce A
>Mission, TX
>WHew536674@cs.com
>
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