Clay Commons

Eva Masterman
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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.

  1. 06/11/2023

    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

    1 min

  2. 06/11/2023

    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.

    5 min

  3. 06/11/2023

    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! In this final episode, we talk about the importance of spaces to gather and talk about ideas. There’s lots wrong with universities, but they did give us a space to get together and talk about things that we cared about, deeply, over time. How man...

    26 min

  4. 06/11/2023

    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 immigration, South American pueblo ceramic traditions, and the disconnect between ideas of land and earth, and our Western understanding of ceramics. So many of our studios and clay practices have been built around handbuilding 1, handbuilding 2, with a foc...

    22 min

  5. 06/11/2023

    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 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. Many of the bigger organisations I went to mentioned things like ‘land ...

    24 min

  6. 06/11/2023

    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 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 thes...

    23 min

  7. 06/11/2023

    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. What’s it for? What has it missed out? What does it promise? 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...

    22 min

  8. 06/11/2023

    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 travelling up and down the East Coast of North America, visiting craft schools and ceramic studios. Why? Because the idea for the Clay Commons came out of the rising number of community clay studios in the UK, and, if you listen to Ep2, Season 1, you’ll hear about how ...

    3 min
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About

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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  • Creator
    Eva Masterman
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2023 Clay Commons
  • Show Website
    Clay Commons

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