Artist Highlight: Taty’s Copalero Pottery Workshop in SF
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What are Copaleros?
Copaleros, also known as incensarios, or sahuamaderos, are an ancestral medicine to heal and cleanse our spirits and the spaces we inhabit.
Many cultures around the world have different incense practices and in this workshop, you’ll create your own copalero, focusing on copaleros in Mesoamerican history and today.
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For our Pottery Workshop Together:
Bring an item special to you – a rock, a seashell, a flower – and get your hands muddy as you mold and shape the earth into a beautiful clay copalero for your altar
More About The Artist: Taty!
Taty Trinidad Hernandez (they/them) is a cuir Zapotec-American artist, farmer, and cultural worker based in Los Angeles, CA and Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca. They are a co-founding member of Ditza Futurist Collective and the founder of Lumbre Ceramics – a pottery studio specializing in cultural storytelling through clay. Their work is rooted in collective knowledge production and oral histories, affirming Indigenous inventions as high-tech, and designing indigenous futures.
After rematriating to Oaxaca in 2020, Taty went into a deep practice and learning of Zapotec farming, plant medicine, and oral history technologies from their elders. Taty frames these mediums as technologies that hold ancestral memories. These memory technologies are the tools they use to dream up queer indigenous futures and are the core principles in their art and socially engaged practice.
Hope to see you all creating your own Copalero through handbuilding with Taty or other handbuilding instructors.
Much love,
Kelly Elizabeth
Artillery AG + Ceramics Steward & Mindful Ceramics Instructor
