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.

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  Episode #1

  Episode 1: Future in Deferral

  Nov 6, 202322 minS2

  <p>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. What’s it for? What has it missed out? What does it promise? </p><p>In the US, many of craft schools were made possible through the GI Bill, a state fund from the mid 40s that supported initiatives and education for returning veterans. Seems kind of unlikely in our current climate, but much of this government money was...

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  Episode #6

  A Manifesto: To You and Clay and Beyond

  Nov 6, 20235 minS2

  <p>I'll let this one stand on its own - a little something from my current phd, to end on an intent for the future.  <br/><br/>To You and Clay and Beyond.</p>

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  Episode #2

  Episode 2: Do The Work

  Nov 6, 202323 minS2

  <p>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 conversation flits between Watershed Centre for the Ceramic Arts in northern rural Maine and Black Hound Clay Studios in Philadelphia. And whilst the concerns of rural v city are obviously specific and different, the ideas that underpin how to run these spaces are not so. They are both heavily invested in building community through education, providing spaces for those who can’t ac...

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  Episode #3

  Episode 3: Voices at the Table

  Nov 6, 202324 minS2

  <p>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 of much before this season. This is the battle for indigenous nations and people to get back land that’s been stolen from them. And yes, this is meant literally. Give it back. </p><p>Many of the bigger organisations I went to mentioned things like ‘land acknowledgments’, which seems like a step...

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  Episode #4

  Episode 4: We Are Dreamers

  Nov 6, 202322 minS2

  <p>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 immigration, South American pueblo ceramic traditions, and the disconnect between ideas of land and earth, and our Western understanding of ceramics. </p><p>So many of our studios and clay practices have been built around handbuilding 1, handbuilding 2, with a focus on skill devoid of context, spirituality or even general connection to each other. How many of us have entered a studio and worked without taking o...

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