Join Ty Hash of Mountain Ash Natural Building and Robyn Till, Tinwork's September Artist-in-Residence, for an overview of natural building systems, such as straw bale construction, cob building, light straw clay, and hempcrete.

This 1-hour free presentation will be followed by a three-hour hands-on workshop on clay-based plastering. Participants will collaboratively build a straw bale bench installed at Tinworks. We will mix clay plaster by hand (and foot) that is then applied to the surface of the bench, including low-relief design work. Bring clothes that can get dirty!

TY HASH Ty Hash brings to the company a wealth of management and project management experience from 12 years as an Army Officer. He has a range of natural building experience from extensive self-education and experimentation, workshops, and full home building using natural building methods. Ty holds certifications in Permaculture Design and Project Management. Ty is a dad of two boys who love to play in the mud!

ROBYN TILL Robyn Till is originally from the Flathead Valley, and has been based in Bozeman for the past 12 years. After finishing her BFA in Ceramics at Montana State University, she went on to complete a Post-Baccalaureate program in Artisanry with UMASS-Dartmouth. Both her utilitarian and sculptural bodies of work are a vehicle to investigate surface design, passage of time, and the intimacy of clay. Her visual lexicon draws from historical textiles and patterns seen in the natural world. She currently splits her time between making/teaching ceramics and working at the Public Library, whose mission is central to her way of thinking and existing.