I was thinking about yesterday’s post – the one about the marvellous porcelain statuette made in the Potteries – and realised that not only are a lot of pottery skills like that being lost, but that nobody is teaching them any more.
It might come as a shock (it did to me) to realise that pottery is no longer a degree course at Staffordshire University. It has been subsumed into something called ‘3D Design’. Trouble is: few students want to learn pottery skills.
So shocked were some people by this that they started ‘Firing Up’, a ceramic project for schools, which is supported jointly by Staffordshire University’s Design Department and the Crafts Council.
This is some of the kids’ work.
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