Clay Commons
A podcast about community ceramics and clay as a force for good. Clay Commons is a six-part podcast hosted by artist and educator Eva Masterman, co-produced by AiAi Studios. Each episode presents conversations with teachers, artists, activists and community leaders, all using clay as a tool to build community. Focusing on the UK and America, Clay Commons explores the rise of a diverse movement of community ceramic practices, and investigates how clay can play a central role in creating alternative solutions to arts education and new systems of value in society.
Episodes
15 episodes
Outro: Until Next Time
Until next time! This is a beginning, a jumping off point, a carrion cry to all those interested in clay as a force for good. Keep following, keep listening, lots more to come.@clay.commons
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:10
A Manifesto: To You and Clay and Beyond
I'll let this one stand on its own - a little something from my current phd, to end on an intent for the future. To You and Clay and Beyond.
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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5:01
Episode 5: The Leaky Boat of Capitalism
VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN! Let’s end with a bit of hope and imagine together what we might build together. If we start to shift our creativity towards communities and away from capitalism. It’s a long road ahead, but we’ve got to start somewhere! ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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25:52
Episode 4: We Are Dreamers
Episode 4 is about positioning this work within traditional practices and rooting it in grassroot, activist, community organising. Speaking to Les Monarcas de Barro (the butterflies of mud), this amazing organisation talks to me about immigrati...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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21:58
Episode 3: Voices at the Table
So, this one doesn’t really mention clay, but allow me some poetic licence and imagine for a moment that clay is also land (which it is). I’m ashamed to say that the Land Back movement was not something I’d really engaged with or had even heard...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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24:27
Episode 2: Do The Work
Episode two is about DOING THE WORK y’all! And that means slowing down, decentring yourself, centring the community, challenging the status quo and constantly reflecting on your organisational structures and being open to your blind spots. This...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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22:31
Episode 1: Future in Deferral
I realise now that episode 1 of season 1 also started with the institution of ‘school’ in some ways , but oh well, at least I’m consistent! Ep 1 is talking about craft schools, mainly, but also what it means to have a craft education. Wha...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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22:15
Intro: Clay Commons Season Two
It’s finally here! Welcome to the second season of Clay Commons! I’ve gone for something a bit different with this one so let me explain a bit. I maaaaay have mentioned the incredible few months in Summer 2022 that I spent travellin...
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Season 2
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Episode 0
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2:45
Episode 6: Clay Work
In conclusion to the first season of Clay Commons, we hear again from some of the contributors of other episodes, as well as a few new voices. We’ve heard a lot about the issues facing individuals and the ceramics discipline at large, and in th...
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49:55
Episode 5: Accountability and Racial Equity
We’re already over a year post the murder of George Floyd, and the global reckoning this atrocious act sparked, but really, how much can we say has changed? This podcast has taken a while to come out, so we’re not as up-to-date as we could be, ...
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50:13
Episode 4: Combating Mindsets of Decline
In Episode 4, we’re meeting some amazing people who are literally transforming lives in very real and tangible ways. It might seem ludicrous to think that a previously incarcerated person, or an undocumented immigrant, or someone forced to use ...
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59:42
Episode 3: Body Soul and Mind
Episode 3 is out and we’re delving deeper into the role of the artist in society, and specifically clay as a tool to support those in mental health crisis, with disability and those effected by dementia. There’s a long history of art therapy an...
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47:56
Episode 2: Open Studio
Leading on from themes of education and the decline in university courses in Episode One, Episode Two looks at alternatives to formal education and the rise of open studios and independent art schools. We meet some of the leading pottery studio...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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43:21
Episode 1: After-School Special
In Episode 1 we ask the question: where has all the clay gone? In the UK, we've gone from a kiln in every school and over 30 BA specialist courses to just 2 in the space of about 30 years. Speaking to veteran educators who have lived through th...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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47:48