“Basic Traditional Pottery Making Workshop”

Pottery made by students in a previous Old Pueblo Archaeology Center – Andy Ward workshop (photo by Andy Ward).

Saturdays January 23 & 30, February 6 & 13, 2016.

“Basic Traditional Pottery Making Workshop” with Andy Ward at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, just west of La Cholla Blvd., ½-mile north of John F. Kennedy Park, Tucson

2 to 5 p.m. each Saturday; Fee $79 ($63.20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) includes all materials except clay, which participants will collect during class field trip

A series of four clay-gathering and pottery-making class sessions will be offered by artist Andy Ward on four Saturday afternoons January 23 through February 13, 2016, including a clay-gathering field trip on January 23. The class is designed to help modern people understand how prehistoric Native Americans made and used pottery, and is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. The course introduces some history of southwestern Ancestral and Modern Pueblo, Mogollon, and Hohokam pottery-making, includes a field trip in which participants dig their own clay, and demonstrates initial steps in forming, shaping and smoothing bowls, jars, and other forms of hand-built pottery using traditional hand-building techniques, gourd scrapers, mineral paints, and yucca brushes instead of modern potters’ wheels and paint.

Reservations required: 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org.