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Clay Sculpture Workshop with Artist Basil Watson:

This 10 week intensive course will cover the basics of clay figure sculpting. Utilizing live models, techniques will focus on the basics of design, anatomy and proportion, and the use of various methods and tools to develop acute modeling skills. The students will be encouraged to seek the energy, vigor and emotive quality of the human figure as reflected in the spirit of the subject.

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Festival del Nazareno (Black Christ Festival) Artist Retreat Accepting Applications:

Come experience the energy and atmosphere of the 2010 Festival del Nazareno (also known as the Black Christ Festival).

Participants will have the opportunity to make their manda - an offering to El Nazareno - by joining pilgrims on the road Maria Chiquita to Portobelo, a roughly five hour walk. This retreat is especially well suited to photographers, who will have the opportunity to explore the transformation of Portobelo from sleepy bayside town, to densly packed festival full of religious fervor and secular amusements.

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A purchase of TPN merchandise, or booking one of our esteemed lecturers to speak at your next event, helps Taller Portobelo Norte do the important work of increasing the critical dialouge around artist and art of the African Diaspora.

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