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I love working with clay. I love building when it is small, mostly handcrafted and beautiful. I love to imagine, create, help and teach. I love to communicate through photography and writing. Traveling is great, especially Mexico, and yet, I love the place I live. Most of all, I love my family.
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A SPICY POSOLE OF ALL THINGS CANELO. NEWS OF THE CANELO PROJECT AND THE HANDCRAFTED BUILDING MOVEMENT; ATHENA AND BILL STEEN AND THE STEEN FAMILY; TALES AND IMAGERY FROM THE U.S./MEXICAN BORDER; DISPATCHES FROM INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS: LOCAL FOOD AND MUSIC; IDEAS AND PLANS FOR THE POST PETROLEUM AGE.
The Interns of Community Rebuild
Looking back at our project with Community Rebuilds, it’s obvious that the program would in now ways be the same without the interns. Each project has 8 that have been selected with an application process that involves a Skype interview. read more »
11:26 am
in Buildings, How-To, Projects, Southwest, Travel, Workshops
Tagged Athena and Bill Steen, Clay Plasters, Community Rebuilds, Interns, Moab Utah, The Canelo Project
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Community Rebuilds – Moab, Utah
We’re back in Utah once again, this time in Moab. If you don’t know Moab this is red rock country. It’s where you find the reality of all those southwest photos of red rocks, great formations, arches, ancient wall arts, read more »
5:53 pm
in Buildings, Canelo, How-To, Southwest, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Athena and Bill Steen, Clay Plasters, Straw Bale, The Canelo Project
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Drywall Plaster Notes from Denver
For those who are interested here are some notes about the plaster we applied to the drywall panels behind the sculpture. The museum mounted the panels for us leaving ¼ inch depth from the surrounding frame. I wanted to do read more »
9:49 am
in Art Projects, How-To, Mud Woman Rolls On
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The "How To" of Native Confluences
Since writing about our project at Arizona State University’s Ceramic Research Center I’ve had a number of requests to talk in a little more detail about some of the methods and techniques that we used on the project. So I read more »
9:18 am
in Art Projects, How-To, Projects
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Clay Ovens in Ireland
While I’m catching up on Germany and the Slovakia blogs, I thought I’d post these photos of ovens built during workshops in Ireland by our German friend, Frank Andresen. A clay builder for many years, I wrote a short piece read more »
9:56 am
in Food, How-To, International, Travel
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