Posts Tagged "Clay Studio in SanAntonio de Ibarra"

Ceramic Production Studio

Posted by Julie_admin on Jun 13, 2014 in Blog | 1 comment

Hands are never without work in San Antonio de Ibarra, a mountainside village overlooking the city of Ibarra in Ecuador’s Imbabura provence.  In May 2014 Circle on the Square teamed up with Ecuadorian painter Diego Buitron  who graciously helped us find our way through San Antonio’s roads to find places hard to discover by anyone unfamiliar with the village.  We traveled to a workshop where the artisans create pots and bakeware by hand using molds. First the clay is mined, but as we found out it is  actually not clay that is taken from the deposit areas, but large rocks that must...