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Red Dirt Studio and Seminar
Japanese national treasure Shoji Hamada wrote that as a potter, if you find good clay in particular spot, you should move there. At Red Dirt Studio, we were fortunate to discover beautiful red clay on site after the studio was set up. What we do here goes beyond ceramics, to sculpture, installation, glass, photography and more, but I think the name is still appropriate. It says something about the importance of materials and the power of art made directly from one’s own experience. Red Dirt Seminar is a graduate school with no grades. It’s a sculpture studio with a taste for ceramics. It’s a collective work environment with shared resources. It’s a critique group. It’s a business-of-art incubator. It’s an exhibition space, a site for visiting artist workshops, and at times, a craft center for neighborhood kids. At its core, Red Dirt is about what can happen with the coming-together of talented, smart and curious people, all engaged in pushing themselves and each other to greater accomplishment in their work. It’s about drawing on the resources of community,
and at the same time giving back.
Margaret Boozer, director
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