Fire and Clay with Eric Mindling

620 Cerrillos Road,Santa Fe NM 87505

23 May, 2022

Description

Join IFAM and Eric Mindling at the IFAM Center in partnership with the Santa Fe Literary Festival. Eric Minding: In 1992, at the age of 23 Eric Mindling left home in the US and moved to Oaxaca, Mexico following an inner calling that he didn’t yet know how to name. For 25 years he immersed himself in the world of traditional people; old time potters, weavers and smoky kitchen chefs and felt like he’d found home. What was calling him, he came to understand, was a search for rootedness, connection to community and place and a desire to learn quiet, old lessons from what he calls our Grandmother Cultures. “Without trying they teach us things we truly need to know, things that we forgot so long ago we don’t even know they’re gone.” Fine art documentary photographer, author and entrepreneur, Eric founded a cultural a tourism company called Traditions Mexico, has written two books that share insights into traditional knowledge; Fire and Clay, The Art of Oaxacan Pottery, and the award-winning Oaxaca Stories in Cloth, co-created the first ever traveling exhibition focused on the potters of indigenous Mexico, presented a TEDx and helped raise two daughters. Eric currently lives in Santa Fe and is the co-owner of Living Threads Studio.