Saturday, February 21st | 10:00am - 12:30pm and

Saturday, February 28th | 10:00am - 12:30pm

16+ | $0

***This free, two-part workshop has been provided by the Colorado Creative Industries Folk and Traditional Arts Grant Project, and is intended for students who self identify as low-income. (Here is how Colorado defines low income) Please take a moment to ensure you are who this opportunity is for prior to reserving a seat. ***

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Dive into the culture of clay masks with artist and educator Cal Duran. Explore and research your own lineage and create your own mask by sculpting faces and forms from clay. Found in every culture, there is a spiritual power in masks that transports one into realms unseen and gives voice to things unspoken. Within the context of ritual, putting on a mask places the wearer at the intersection between the present and the past, the living and the dead, this world and the Otherworld. This workshop is divided into two days.

Class 1: Building and sculpting from clay.

Class 2: Painting masks.

At the end of this workshop, you may be asked to submit your piece to be displayed in the culminating gallery show: Woven Traditions: Reconnecting Through Folk Art in May of 2026. The final exhibition and documentary archiving will include completed artworks alongside interviews and visual documentation, which will be submitted to the Colorado State Archives and History Colorado Digital Archives.