click here for photos of our Clay
Mask workshop 10/05/2001!
Our Clay workshops, Winter 2001
led by Gail Robinson-Dominguez, artist and friend of Amistad
(click on each thumbnail photo to enlarge it)
Have thine own way, Lord!
Have thine own way!
Thou art the potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after thy will,
while I am waiting, yielded and still.
Adelaide Pollard, 1902
This Great God,
Like a mammy bending over her baby,
Kneeled down in the dust
Toiling over a lump of clay
Till he shaped it in his own image;
Then into it he blew the breath of life,
And man became a living soul.
Amen. Amen.James Weldon Johnson, "The Creation" in "God's Trombones"
Like clay in the hand of the potter,
to be molded as (s)he pleases,
so all are in the hand of their Maker,
to be given whatever (s)he decides.
Sirach 33: 13
But we have this treasure in clay jars,
so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power
belongs to God and does not come from us.
2 Corinthians 4:7
See, before God I am as you are;
I too was formed from a piece of clay.
Job 33:6click here for a short essay "On Being Clay" by Jim Schaal of the Amistad Support Committee