Center for CASAS GRANDES Studies: JUAN QUEZADA, A week with Master Potter RANCHO SIERRA MADRE ESCUELA DE LOS ARTES

JUAN QUEZADA

A week with Master Potter

RANCHO SIERRA MADRE

ESCUELA DE LOS ARTES

Chihuahua, Mexico

SEPT 2 TO 11, 2011

Tuition : $900 per person

Covers all expenses

including travel from Windmill, NM

DEADLINE : JULY 8

DEPOSIT DUE

NEED 10 people to confirm

OR please express interest for next year 2012

ABOUT:

This is Juan Quezada’s favorite of his workshops. Here he teaches all aspects of the distinctive Mata Ortiz clay techniques he originated. No previous clay experience is necessary. Since 1998, Jim and Jo Jarvis have offered a class by Juan Quezada at their working ranch near the Cueva de la Olla in the Sierra Madre Mountains an hour west of Mata Ortiz.

At the Jarvis’ ranch, which has been in the family since 1878, You will see and experience a lifestyle untouched by telephone, electricity, or Internet (emergency radio available). Extracurricular activities include birding, rock hounding (particularly fire agate), and exploring cliff dwellings. Prehistoric rock art, both pictographs and petroglyphs, are within a ten-minute walk. This is a time when the mountains are their prettiest with wildflowers in full bloom.

SCHEDULE:

Groups caravan from and to Windmill, New Mexico (south of Lordsburg near Animas), visiting on the way the Museum of Northern Cultures at Casas Grandes and the Mormon colony of Colonia Juárez, stopping briefly both ways at Mata Ortiz.

COLLAGE CREDIT AVAILABLE:

Western New Mexico University in Silver City grants two academic credits.

PLEASE CONTACT:

Jim or Jo Jarvis

(575-436-2589, Cell 575-538-1854),

HC 65 Box 634, Animas NM 88020.

snjjarvi[at]hotmail.com

About CASAS GRANDES / MATA ORTIZ:

CENTER FOR CASAS GRANDES STUDIES

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JUAN QUEZADA MASTER POTTER WORKSHOP : SEPT 2 TO 11 2011

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