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Cob: FWD: Earthen Plaster Workshops with Carole Crews, NM

Mark Piepkorn duckchow at mail2.greenbuilder.com
Wed Sep 15 09:41:47 CDT 1999


Earthen Plaster Workshop Series 
with Carole Crews of Gourmet Adobe
at Beneficial Farm - producing organic vegetables and eggs
SE of Santa Fe, New Mexico

Saturday, Sept 25,
Saturday, Oct. 9, 
& Sunday, Oct 17

This series of plastering workshops will give you hands-on experience
mixing and applying a 3-coat earthen plaster to straw-bale and straw-clay
interior walls. Learn how to prepare your walls, how to work with local
soils, how to make and apply a variety of plaster mixes, how to create
colors using natural clays and pigments, and the simple secrets of durable
aliz finishes. Discover how easy it is to decorate a wall with bas relief
sculpture and polished micaceous clay paints.

Saturday 9/25/99 - Prep surfaces for plaster, mix thick "scratch coat"
plaster, apply to straw-bale & straw-clay walls, begin bas relief sculpture

Saturday, 10/9/99 - Mix and apply "smooth coat" plaster, complete bas
relief sculpture

Sunday, 10/17/99 - Mix and apply "aliz" (clay slip) finish, decorate bas
relief sculpture

Workshop hours:
9AM - Tour of Beneficial Farm
10AM - 5PM - Hands-on Workshop
1 PM - Vegetarian Lunch and Carole Crews slide show

Workshop fees: (includes lunch and handout)
$30 individual / $50 couple - each workshop
&75 individual / $135 couple - workshop series

Contact:  Natural Building Resources (505) 895-5652 <blackrange at zianet.com>
for more information and to register. 

Carole Crews has worked in Taos with adobe and earthen plasters for many
years, specializing in clay and mica decorative finishes. Beneficial Farm
practices organic "community supported agriculture" and produces
high-quality eggs, feeding their chickens primarily with grain from local
small growers in the Sangre de Christo bioregion. They operate off-the-grid
with solar power.