The Vessel and The Voice

Journeys, Hand Built Pots, Drums & Apache Sweat Lodge

2012 Workshop Canceled

Dear Friends,
for a variety of circumstances, we have decided not to hold the workshop in the summer of 2012. For those interested in Deep Imagery Journeys, please visit www.deepimagery.org or contact the for workshop listings. You can also email or for information.

For individual pottery lessons, contact or . And to purchase a drum or to have a drum making lesson, email .

Many thanks,

Mary

Journey to your creative depths, make a soul-revealing micaceous clay pot, a voice revealing Apache drum and join us in an Apache sweat lodge.

Journey with Steve Gallegos, create a micaceous clay pot from your journeys with Apache Medicine Man Felipe Ortega, who will also read your pot, create a drum with Jimmy Ortega & attend an Apache Two-Spirit sweat lodge

Immerse yourself in your creative depths with Deep Imagery Journeys. Explore the Apache view of the world. Discover Native traditions that resonate with you as make pots and drums. Honor Earth, Clay mother and all seven directions. Find a voice in harmony with all.

The workshop includes:

20hrs instruction with Felipe Ortega plus studio time
8 hrs instruction with Jimmy Ortega.
Minimum 4 days with E.S. Gallegos, Ph.D
Sweat Lodge

Pottery We work with the theme that we are made of earth clay and have come here to develop the voice of our expression while alive. Participants spend time with Steve Gallegos working through the magnificent element of the imagination, bringing our awareness to the vessel that we are and the unique events that have fired and hardened it, and developing the voice of our expression here, to bring ourselves to the unified depth of the vessel giving voice, standing in full support of our presence and our expression.

We also have the unique opportunity of working with two Apache brothers, Felipe and Jimmy Ortega. Felipe is a master potter and Jimmy is a master drum maker. We will make one or two pots, forming, polishing, and firing, and inviting the pot to help us come into our own form. We will make a drum, hollowing and shaping the aspen trunk, stretching the rawhide, letting it dry, and sounding it. We will drum during the firing of the pots and then have them read by Felipe. And we will feast on Mary Diggin's fine cuisine. What a wonderful life!