Chris Salas: Pinch Pot Meditations
Fee: $45/$38 members
Registration: Space is limited; advance registration required. Click here to register online.
Chris Salas, intermittent guest of Lynden artists-in-residence Open Kitchen and part of their OK, Sss (Self-seasonsing Symposium) series, returns for Part 2 of his residency, a ceramics workshop. Pinch Pot Meditations focuses on growing connections between intuition and the making process. Participants will build pottery and sculptural forms using a single piece of clay. Participants are invited to join a pit-firing on Sunday, October 27, where they will learn about and take part in one of the earliest ceramic firing methods.
OK Sss is a seasonal residency + food-related programming. Part 1 of Salas’s residency aligned with OK’s Cultural Garden expansion at Lynden. This second residency coincides with the garden’s final harvest.
More about Part 1 of Chris Salas’s residency here: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/calendar/open-kitchen-ok-sss-chris-salas-pt-1
About the Artist
Chris Salas (they/them) is an artist and educator primarily working in ceramics. Their studio practice is a search for a particular mental state – the engaged and unconscious divergence and convergence of ideas that imbue themselves into objects. These objects become abstracted forms of personal experiences, relationships, conversations, research – all of which currently revolves around time, place, momentum, with a pervasive presence of the history of colonization of the Americas. Chris received a BA in Chemistry from Michigan State University and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. They have completed residencies at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; at Ceramics School in Hamtramck, Michigan; at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine; and at Starworks Ceramics in Star, North Carolina. In 2023, Chris will be attending a residency at Township10 in North Carolina. They are a Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago through the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship.
About OK Sss
Self-seasoning symposium (Sss) is a conceptual framework for building sustainable and ethical land relationships. The framework entwines ideas of self-organizing, seasonality, and a collective effort to identify an individual’s “sense of seasoning” by way of cookery. It is a field of food-related correspondences between artists and their ecological entanglements. A conceptual stone soup made of meaningful ideas that perform as ingredients for guests to repurpose in their food excursion (upon their tasting/finding). This collective project aims to influence a critical organizing process that strategizes ecological reciprocity.
Project support provided by The Open Fund, through the Poor Farm with funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Ruth Foundation for the Arts and by the Lynden Sculpture Garden.
