Sacred Places at Baltimore Clayworks
Clayworks’ first Sacred Place, located in front of our studio building, was installed in the summer of 2011. The flagstone pathway, bluestone stairs, and native plantings provide an inviting portal to the Nurturing Nature Fountain Garden. Here visitors can access mosaic garden benches and the Nature Sacred bench and journal.
Now in 2024, we are restoring the fountain in this space and developing a second Sacred Place in front of our Gallery building. As we activate this new space with plantings, seating, and programming, we hope it will be heavily used and become a valued resource for the community.
A New Sacred Place
Clayworks is creating a second Sacred Place outside our galleries. Landscape Design for new site coming soon.
We imagine a space that ignites curiosity, sparks conversation, and joins people, nature, and clay, from their ancestral roots to their hopeful future. It will be a place for grounding and reflection, an accessible and joyful garden in which all people in our community can feel they belong.
We hope this space will provide a welcoming spot in front of the BCW’s gallery where people passing by and those visiting BCW will have the chance to engage with nature. We foresee this space to be an area in which new arts programming can take place that will broaden BCW’s offerings and community engagement.
