Our ceramics are made by local artists – extraordinary people from the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, who are given training, materials, a studio and a guaranteed market for their work, under the guidance of our founder, Fée Halsted. Find out more about all the artists behind these gorgeous ceramics at Ardmore HERE.
It’s Pride y’all! It’s time to shout from the rooftops that the LGBTQIA+ Pride Movement started as riot by Trans women of color!
I have teamed up with 20 other potters to raffle off a piece of my work to benefit @theokraproject, a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home-cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever they can reach them. Here’s how to enter:
1. Donate $5 or more to the @theokraproject or go to https://www.artsbusinesscollaborative.org/asp-products/the-okra-project-sponsored-project/
2. Send a screenshot of your donation along with your Instagram handle to [email protected] $5 per entry. Unlimited entries. If you donate $50, you get 10 entries.
3. All receipts must be dated June 23rd or later.
4. International entries are welcome. Winners chosen at random for pieces donated.
5. Raffle ends 6/28/2020 12AM PST. Winners will be announced 6/30/2020
6. Help us spread the word! Please share this post!
Participating potters include:
@arthurhalvorsen
@ashleybevington
@barbaradonovan
@bellajoypottery
@caassey
@c_tenenholtz_ceramics
@cumulus.clay
@elanpottery
@5linespotterystudio
@jrothshank
@lauriecaffery.clay
@mac_art_ceramics
@machikoerhard
@makegoodchoices
@melissamayapottery
@musingaboutmud
@slip_in_color_ceramics
@thatadewolechick
@threetceramics
@throwandgrowceramics
@vanessamnorris
Join us on June 26th to help raise funds for NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in leading the fight for racial injustice.
ClayAKAR and Artists are working together to donate 100% of the proceeds from this event. Your purchases will help the NAACP fund’s mission to achieve racial justice, equality and an inclusive society. Learn more about this fund at https://www.naacpldf.org/
Please join us this Coming Monday 22June 2020 14:00 South African time. – please see Details below. 👇🏾
Madoda Fani and Andile Dyalvane’s twenty year old friendship is a testament to brotherhood and one that celebrates a passion for clay. Fani focuses on various coiling techniques and finishes he incorporates in his practice while Dyalvane supports with enquiry in this workshop.
Born in 1975, Madoda Fani grew up in Gugulethu township in Cape Town and discovered his love of clay as a fine art student at Sivuyile College. He worked as a ceramic painter in various pottery studios, gradually developing his own pieces and style. In 2000, his work was selected for the Salon Internationale de l’Artisanat de Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. There he met the ceramicist Simon Masilo, who introduced him to smoke-firing. In 2009, he moved to Johannesburg and began to deepen his craft at the Kim Sacks School of Ceramics. He learned how to burnish clay with a stone from Jabu Nala, the daughter of legendary Zulu beer–pot maker Nesta Nala, and mastered smoke-firing techniques under the guidance of Nic Sithole.
Who is it for
For anyone interested in working with clay, curious about the creative processes and willing to learn. Artists, designers and creative communities who want to expand their knowledge of ceramics and those who want to experience clay meditations.
What you need
You need not have any previous knowledge albeit jargon familiarity may come in handy when questions are asks by the audience. An eagerness to discover the creative process of ceramics is essential.
Materials Needed: Attention and your hands, a notebook or sketchbook, pencil, clay, air dry clay or play dough, a round wooden board (bread board size will do) or round bat.
By: Paulo Bartolo for The Conversation
“Our treatment uses a temporary, 3D printed “bone brick” to fill the gap. They are made up of polymer and ceramic materials and can be clicked together just like a Lego brick to fit perfectly into whatever gap has been created by the blast injury. The bricks are degradable and allow new tissue to grow around them. This structure will support the load like a normal bone, induce the formation of new bone and, during this process, the bricks will dissolve. The idea is that the surgeon can open a bag of bricks and piece them together to fit that particular defect and promote the bone growth.”
Read the whole article HERE. *TW there is a discussion about the impact of bomb blasts in war zones and children.
