May 30 - June 1, 2025, 8:30am - 4:30pm. Crestone, CO.
In this 3-day, hands-on workshop, you will learn some of the most essential and easy-to-master interior finishes. A range of plasters will be covered including ¼” thick clay-straw plasters, ⅛” thick paper reinforced clay plasters, and thin wheat paste clay paints. All plasters work well when for applied over sheetrock, plywood and other flat substrates, including latex painted walls.
Join us to learn:
How to adhere clay finishes to sheetrock and other dissimilar materials.
How to use your own local clays
How to improve your plastering skills
What tools to use when
Email OESDirector@CrestoneEnergyFair.Org or call Goldie at 303-903-0968 with any questions.
Community Price: $450
Low-income pricing, supported by your peers (only 4 spots available)
Supporter Price: $600
Pay for yourself
Sustainer Price: $750
Support low-income participants & pay it forward
Price includes three days of instruction and lunch each day. Additional meals and lodging not included.
Athena Steen grew up building with clay and adobe. She loves creating sculpted spaces that connect form with function, and walls rich with pattern, texture and color. Through the Canelo Project, a small non-profit organization, Athena and Bill, her husband, have been teaching workshops for over thirty years, in strawbale construction and earthen building. Focused on simple, low-skill, low-cost methods that build community between people, culture and nature. Co-authors of “The Straw Bale House,” “Small Strawbale,” and “Built by Hand," Their influence in the natural building world has been widespread. When Athena does not have her hands in the mud, she also enjoys publishing and designing books.