creative clay
Exciting hand-building pottery activities for young people.
Activity 1 Subsidised hand-building pottery workshops
Creative Gunning is collaborating with Nawsheen Hyland from Whistle & Page, a pottery studio based in Murrumbateman, to hold two highly subsidised half-day hand-building pottery workshops in Gunning for young people seven years old and over and their parents/carers.
Participants can choose either Sunday morning April 19 or Sunday morning April 26.
In each workshop the young people will create a pottery piece that will be fired and glazed creating lasting pieces. See below for how to participate.
Activity 2 – Pottery at Home Kits
Based on workshop learnings, Nawsheen from Whistle & Page will prepare four (3-6 minute) videos, available through her website, each enough to teach one focused technique clearly for young people at home.
Nawsheen will also develop some “The Pocket Potter” kits. Each kit will include some pottery clay, a small tool set tailored to the videos, and a step-by-step printed card with QR codes to the videos. The kits and videos will invite creative exploration beyond the classroom setting.
Twenty subsidised kits will be available for sale as part of the Creative Clay project. Whistle & Page can also provide a firing service for people’s creations at a modest cost. See below for how to participate.
How to participate
The highly subsidised cost of the workshops is $30 per young participant (accomanying adults are free). Further details and booking information for the workshops is available at https://www.whistleandpage.com/workshops-events/p/creative-clay . Information will be provided later in the year about how to purchase The Pocket Potter subsidised kits.
Acknowledgement
Creative Gunning is very proud to be able to work with Nawsheen Hyland from Whistle & Page on this project.
The Creative Gunning Creative Clay project is supported by the Country Arts Support Program, a devolved funding program administered by Southern Tablelands Arts on behalf of the NSW Government.
