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A Potter's Visit from Katmandu Valley

September 7-October 5, 2007

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The recently-opened WeUsOur Artist's Market in Manitou Springs is a fantastic place to discover all kinds of hand-made oddities. They're also doing their best to break the mold of the Manitou craft store by bringing art and artists from far and wide to mingle their wares with the locals. Take the upcoming visit of Lxmi Kumar Prajapati from Katmandu, for example. The surname Prajapati means potter in the village of Thimi, Nepal. Laxmi brings tableware and ornamental pieces not seen in this area before. Three foot tall lions that guard the Buddhist temples, Ganesh sconces to clear obstacles from your life, and elegant contemporary tableware benchmark the work of Laxmi. Meet this humble man, see him demonstrate how he makes an elephant head on a potter�s wheel, and view the contemporary wares he brings to us influenced by generations of Thimi potters. Thimi is a village of potters whose trade extends far back in generations. To make current processes and technologies accessible to these Thimi potters, Laxmi and his brother, Santa, have started a pottery cooperative. The Nepal Ceramics Co-operative Society is an organized group that buys materials collectively and brings them to the village artisans making the components of modern glaze technology accessible to the remote area.

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  Dates:
  September 7-October 5, 2007

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  We Us Our Artist Market

  10 Ruxton Ave Manitou Springs, CO 80829

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