Ancient Worlds

This week CLAY OK will be spending some time at Manchester Museum to celebrate the opening of the Ancient Worlds galleries.

Ancient Worlds is a free exhibition of three new galleries showcasing archaeological finds from ancient civilisations like Greece, Rome, and Egypt, and revealing the people behind the objects- who made them, used them, lost them and rediscovered them.

This Thursday 15th of November from 6.30 until 9pm, Sophie will be at the Manchester Museum for the After Hours event, delivering an 'Ancient Fragments' workshop. Visitors will take inspiration from the displays to create patterns and textures in clay. You can also mummify an orange and take part in a conservation master class, whilst listening to the Oud! This event is free and there is no need to pre-book.

On Saturday 17th of November, Pascal will be at the Museum from 11am till 4pm for Big Saturday. You'll have the opportunity to handle objects from the Museum collection,  then let your imagination run wild as you make your own clay museum artefact! This is a free drop-in event, and there is no need to pre-book.

We hope to see you at the Museum this week!

(Image by Graeme Cooper and Creative Concern)

The Masses

A few quick snaps of figures made by students at Pascal's evening class for beginners

Celebratory Meal at Milbrook

Participants cooked a gourmet meal together to serve on their handbuilt ceramic plates. All made from scratch and polished off in no time!

DROP IN SESSIONS, new batch

New pieces fresh out of the kiln, come along and have a go, friday and saturday mornings 10-12 at St Margarets Church, Whalley Range. See the Calendar page for dates.

Ceramics at Milbrook

Some fine ceramic wares from a recent ceramics project with participants at Milbrook day centre, Stockport. Plates were meade by coiling clay and were then decorated using slips and stencils of participants' hands. In the final session we made a celebratory meal to eat off the plates, photos to come soon!

In another session we made a large ceramic planter with modelled decoration to brighten up the centre.

SOPHIE PERRY

CLAY OK is delighted to welcome workshop practioner Sophie Perry, who will be offering clay arts workshops in collaboration with Pascal Nichols. Sophie has a broad range of experience and understanding of visual arts and education, having studied an MA in Visual Anthropology and working on a range of community engagement projects both local and international. Over the last 2 years Sophie has undertaken various creative community projects particularly focusing on clay work. read more in the 'about' section...

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terracotta figures at Park School

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