Colombian Sancocho || San Francisco Pottery Studio Chronicles
A Night of Soup, Stories, and What We’re Carrying Forward in Community
Reflections from Our Colombia Storytelling Dinner
Last week, our studio filled with the kind of warmth that lingers long after the bowls are cleared.
We gathered around a pot of traditional Colombian soup, Sancocho. Cooked slowly, over open fire, intentionally. We shared an evening of storytelling rooted in our recent time in Colombia. What unfolded was more than a dinner. It was a remembering. A circle. A moment of pause in the rush of the season.
Friends, artists, and community members came together to eat, listen, and reflect on the places that have shaped us.
The Soup with Intention
At the center of the night was a simple truth: in Colombia, soup is not just food.
It is a welcome.
It is a practice of care.
It is how stories are passed.
We served a traditional Colombian soup and shared a printed recipe + story card, created as both a keepsake and an invitation to carry the ritual home. The card held not only ingredients, but meaning — a reminder that nourishment can be slow, symbolic, and shared.
As bowls were filled, so were conversations. Guests spoke about lands that changed them, creative callings they’ve been sitting with quietly, and the ways food connects us back to ourselves.
The Sancocho Recipe Card
Sharing the Vision
During the evening, we shared the story behind a project we’ve been nurturing: the early vision for an Artist Residency in Colombia.
Not as a formal announcement — but as a story still unfolding.
We spoke about land-based making, slow creative rhythms, and the way Colombia shifted how we understand art, time, and community. We spoke about the desire to create a space where artists can reconnect — to craft, to land, to themselves.
What moved us most was the response. The questions. The quiet “yes, I’ve been longing for something like this.” The sense that this residency already belongs to a wider circle.
Thank you to everyone who listened, reflected, and added your energy to this growing vision.
