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Workshop 1 - Slab Babies
Date: TBD Time: TBD
Students study slab building techniques during Jean's Slab Baby
project.
Description: This workshhop emphasizes hand building
techniques modeled after precoulumbian art. Examples of authentic slab babies appear
here.
Schedule:
Day 1
- Discuss origin and show slides.
- Demonstration
- Chose slab baby and discuss proportion and construction
- Build slab baby hands
Demo large covered container and throwing a 25 pound pot the
easy way. Full instruction for these techniques are convered in
another workshop.
Lunch (both days) ‘Pot’ luck
Day 2
- Burnish Slab babies
- Trim and decorate large covered container as a humanoid
figure in the pre-Columbian style.
Note: This class is limited in size. All dates are
tentative and are subject to availability.
Please Contact Jean for
prices and additional information about this and other
workshops.
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Examples of precolumbian Slab Baby art are depicted on this
page.
See Student pages for examples of contemporary student slab
babies.
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Precolumbian slab baby with eagle
headdress (left)
Hollow-slab anthropormorphic figure
Light brown slip, with black resist-painted details
10 1/4 in (26 cm) (h) x 9 3/4 in (24 cm((w)
Caldas complex (ca. 1200 A.D.-1400 A.D.)
Middle Cauca region
The figure wears a headdress that is sometimes interpreted to
represent an eagle with wings spead. The eagle is often
associated with the sun in precolumbian iconography.
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Human-effigy canastero
Brown slip, decorated with incised details.
9 3/4" (24.8 cm)(h) x 7" (17.8cm)
Llama phase (ca. 800 B.C.-100 B.C.)
Calima zone, Valle Del Cauca
The naked male figure is profusely incised with decoration
representing body tattooing.
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Alcarraza
Black-on-red resist painted
8"(20.3cm)(h) x 6" (15.2cm)(w)
Yotoco phase (ca. 300 A.D.-1300 A.D.)
Calima zone, Valle Del Cauca
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