The children from the Ross University Preparatory School at the Potter's House in August 2007. They look on as I show give them an exercise in using clay to create just about anything they could dream up. Mostly they made butterflies, fish, airplanes and other little toy creatures. It was a packed one day workshop . They had lots of fun.
The UNESCO Youth Path Project brought a group of youths from the North of St. Kitts to spend a day with me in August of 2007. I took them on a journey from clay preparation to making of a piece of pottery during the course of the day. I showed them how to make a few items which I thought they could relate to. Most of them succeeded in making miniatures of the Yabba and coal pot.
Children cleaning clay at the Pottery and Art Camp held at The Potter's House, summer of 07
A bonfire firing of clay pieces.
Particants at work making Yabba pots during the UNESCO sponsored Pottery Workshop of January 2007, held at The Potter's House, St. Kitts
Participants are happily stirring a pail full of clay which has been softened with water and brought to a thick, creamy consistency.
A participant laughs as she sifts clay into a pail covered in canvas fabric.
The Rastaman is surrounded by pails and globs of clay.
The year 2007 was a busy year for me in terms of training others in the art of pottery making. The UNESCO workshop ran from January 22nd to February 2nd of 2007. We used clay which I had sent over from the Newcastle Pottery in Nevis. Almina Cornelius, the potter at that pottery came over a couple of days to assist in the facilitation of this workshop. Participants were taken on a journey from preparing the raw clay to making of the items to firing it in the tradional way on a bonfire, using exterior of the dried coconuts. The particpants, by the end of the two-week workshop was fully able to appreciate the beauty of their finished pieces.
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