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.
Clay Commons
Episode 6: Clay Work
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
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 this episode we go a bit deeper into potential solutions and how this work can feed out into the wider society and change our education systems.
Clay Commons has just scratched the surface of what community ceramic spaces and artists have to offer the education space and other sectors such as care and health, immigration, human rights and even law and policy making. Episode six aims to draw some of these strands together, taking another look at clay as a transformative, identity building tool, and generally hammering home the message of clay as a force for good!
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this episode:
- Simeon Featherstone Make@ Story Gardens @makeatstorygarden @simeonfeatherstone https://simeonfeatherstone.co.uk
- Shaya Ishaq Artist @shyshaya https://www.shayaishaq.com
- Gerald Brown Clay Siblings @geraldbrownart https://www.claysiblingsproject.org
- Rebecca Davies and Anna Francis The Portland Inn Project @theportlandinnprojectcic https://www.theportlandinnproject.com
- Yinka Orafidiya Artist @crafting.community https://www.yinkaorafidiya.com
- Carolina Rubio MacWright Touching Ground (NYC) @touchinglandorg
- Jack Tan Artist @jackkytan