Led by sculptor Freda Osayuki Igiogbe, participants are invited to explore clay as a vessel for memory, tension, and transformation.
Through hand-building and small-scale sculptural exercises, attendees will learn how to work with the material's natural responsiveness... it's warmth, weight, rresistance, and eventual stillness.
Freda will introduce the idea of clay as ember, a material that remembers touch, absorbs gesture, and moves toward permanence through heat. Participants will create experimental clay forms that hold traces of their own movement, balance, and energy.
Themes: tactility, balance, imprint, rersponsiveness, ancestral memory, material, transformation, tension and release.
Outcome: Small sculptural studies + an understanding of clay's emotional and ancestral resonances.