The Carbondale Clay Center opened its current exhibition, “The Way We Are: Women of The Roaring Fork Valley”, on Jan. 16 and it will remain on display until Feb. 24 with a First Friday reception on Feb. 3 from 6pm to 8pm. As the name implies, the exhibition features diverse… read more →
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Feb. 1, 2023
Works by local women highlighted in Clay Center show
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Clay Play at Carbondale Clay Center — FREE Class!
Published Jan. 22, 2023Facilitated by Gabby Gawreluk
Creating pottery is known to be therapeutic, allowing for self-expression and self-discovery while offering stress relief and relaxation. When spinning clay, we have the ability to connect our minds to our hands, creating the sense of synergy between our mind and body. Please join us for…
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Sep. 14, 2022
Carbondale Clay Center: A ‘grassroots, community organization’
The doors to the Carbondale Clay Center opened 25 years ago, and from the beginning it’s been a creative space for this mountain community and connected ceramicists from other parts of the world with its workshops and artists-in-residency programming.
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Aug. 17, 2022
Carbondale Clay Center: 25 years and counting
By Diane Kenney
Founder of the Carbondale Clay CenterThe Carbondale Clay Center was born in 1997. This year marks its 25th anniversary. As the founding director, I never could have imagined all that was to happen in that extremely humble building tucked in at the end… read more →
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Aug. 3, 2022
Mata Ortiz, el pueblo que acudió a las vasijas
Traducción por Dolores Duarte
Después de que el aserradero quebrara y el último tren dejara la estación de ferrocarril, los residentes desempleados del pueblo de Juan Mata Ortiz en Chihuahua, México, se hicieron creativos. Encontraron una forma de ganar dinero con cerámica. Llevándosela, no haciéndola. Desenterraron vasijas antiguas y… read more →
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Jul. 27, 2022
El barro: Arte de supervivencia
A pesar de tener casi toda una vida en el Valle, como muchos inmigrantes, mis raíces están divididas entre el hogar que fue y el hogar que ahora es. Mis memorias de niña son imágenes combinadas de montañas y el desierto.
Recuerdo estar en casa de mi abuela mirando las… read more →
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Jan. 5, 2022
My first run in porcelain
I don’t ski, so answering The Sopris Sun’s year-end dare to its reporters, to “do something you’ve never done before,” with my first descent down a double black diamond run, was one possibility. Except, for me, ski resorts are like factory farms for winter sports.
I resolved instead… read more →
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23rd Annual Cup Auction
Published Dec. 3, 2021Carbondale Clay Center (CCC) invites the local and national communities to participate in this year’s 23rd Annual Cup Auction. A favorited fundraising event that brings hundreds of people and hundreds of ceramic cups together. The 23rd Annual Cup Auction is generously sponsored by Amore Reality.
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Nov. 23, 2021
Potter Giana Grossman finds happiness in a cup
To walk into Giana Grossman’s studio at the Carbondale Clay Center is to enter a realm of sea and land, warmth and spirit, pop and verve. Between form, texture, and color, a display of Grossman’s vessels is irresistible to the eye and hand. You can’t help but to pick one… read more →
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Nov. 17, 2021
"Feeling Walls" explores the fragile edge of art
Sara Ransford has been living in the Valley since 1977, moving from Carbondale to Aspen, and then back to Carbondale. She worked as an art teacher at both the Carbondale Middle School and Carbondale Elementary School during the ‘80s and ‘90s, where she met Diane Kenney, a fellow art teacher… read more →
