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New Mexico
potter/chef Brian Grossnickle
returns to Ruth Conklin Gallery, Glen Arbor,
to demonstrate his artistry.
Cooking Demonstrations
Mr.
Grossnickle will offer cooking demonstrations
with recipes, including a vegetarian posole
and a green chili stew, from his cookbook.
Ruth Conklin Gallery in Glen Arbor on M-109.
11am.-4pm.
Thursday, July 4
Thursday, July 12
Wednesday, July 18
Pottery Demonstrations
Brian will create traditional Apache heirloom cookware from
micaceous clay.
The cookware and serving ware he
constructs from clay include bean pots, covered casseroles, woks,
platters, tea sets and coffee mugs. The clay contains 40 percent mica, an
excellent heat conductor. The clay pots are wood fired in open pits, where
“fire clouds” from the wood add individual markings to the earthenware.
Pots made from micaceous clay retain heat for
more than an hour. The functional cookware will last for generations, Mr.
Grossnickle says, and is designed for daily
use. The handcrafted pieces are suitable for stove top, oven and buffet
service
Ruth Conklin Gallery in Glen Arbor on M-109.
11am.-4pm.
Friday, July 6
Friday, July 13.
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New Mexico potter/chef
Brian Grossnickle is returning to Ruth Conklin
Gallery in Glen Arbor for five days in July to demonstrate the making of
hand-built pots and share Southwestern cuisine in the clay cookware he
creates using the 800-year-old traditional Apache coil and scrape method.
A graduate of De Pauw University with a degree
in anthropology, Mr. Grossnickle, 29,
apprenticed for two years with Santa Fe
master potter Felipe Ortega, and has been perfecting his skills since
1999.
He works as a chef in
New Mexico, and in the
fall will join the faculty at Santa Fe Community College as a ceramics
instructor. His two pottery classes, he noted, are already filled.
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