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Category: Studio news
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Video: Cultural Cooperatives visiting Ceramics Studio Co-op
Cultural Cooperatives Visiting Ceramics Studio Co-op from Cultural Coops on Vimeo.
Work in the cultural sector is often precarious, exploitative and individualized – but what are the alternatives?
Watch our visit to Ceramics Studio Coop and see how worker cooperatives in the cultural industries can challenge the way we work and create. It’s the first in a series of videos introducing cultural co-ops and exploring the politics of co-ops in the cultural sector.
Follow us on Twitter @culturalcoops to find out when we launch cultural.coop, a website to collect resources about the co-operative model and to encourage collaboration and solidarity among cultural co-ops.
Let’s open up the conversation about the struggles faced by cultural workers and share our stories of resistance.
Interviews: Marisol Sandoval – lecturer at City University London researching the politics of cultural co-ops
Video: Blake House Filmmakers Co-op
Graphics: Constance Laisné and Gabriel Bristow, Altgen -
Collaboration with Blake House and Cultural Cooperatives
We are pleased to announce a collaboration with Cultural Co-operatives and Blake House Filmmakers Co-operative.
Together we working on a video about the ceramics studio. To find out more and follow the development of cultural coops and our collaboration follow Cultural Coops on Twitter @CulturalCoops
cultural.coop website is due to launch soon, and it would be the space where resources about the cooperative model are collected. It aims to encourage collaboration and solidarity among cultural co-ops. Ceramics Studio Co-op team is happy to support the project and be the subject of the fist video interview.
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Co-op News: Prizewinning ceramic co-op fires up its new ‘Big’ kiln
A worker co-op ceramics studio in South East London is celebrating the successful firing up of its new kiln, part funded by its success in the Young Co-operators’ Prize last year.
AltGen and Co-operatives UK named Ceramics Studio Co-op as one of its five prizewinners in April 2015. The co-op received £2,000 in funding to develop its business as well as mentoring support and business advice.
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First firing in the Big kiln
We are happy to announce that the first firing of full load for bisque temperature in the new kiln was completed successfully within 3 days. The new kiln was installed and delivered to the co-op in late December 2015, and was named ‘Big’ before launch in January 1016. Ceramics by 5 artists and People’s Pottery Classes participants were fired without a glitch.
Acquisition of a new kiln was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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Arts Council England Grants for the Arts supports our new kiln acquisition plan
Ceramics Studio Co-op is happy to announce
That our project aimed to acquire a new kiln for the workshop and update firing facility is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. This plan includes the purchase of a new 200 litre kiln with an extension ring that would guarantee more sustainable and reliable ceramics firing services that are currently provided by the co-operative.
We would also use part of the funding and Young Co-operators Prize award to set-up air extractor facility to improve health and safety for makers and artists using our facilities. The new kiln is due to be in operation from January 2016.
If you would like to find out more about the plan please contact us.
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People’s Pottery Drop-in classes
This autumn we discovered ourselves under quite a lot of pressure to make sure drop-in classes stay available. Thanks to you, our committed new makers and clay lovers we are planning 4 special drop-in sessions this season. You can book them via this page.
We know it is sometimes hard to commit to longer course, but you’d really like to try it. Or there could be an older piece of yours you wanted to glaze. We would not want to see all the exciting projects left unrealised unfinished and stuck on shelves, due to difficult work schedules, and busy lives.
So plan it in for your Thursday evenings: book your places here.
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Bowls for Books: studio library
Bowls for Books is a new co-operative member’s initiative though which we aim to fundraise for common-use library in the ceramics studios.
Though nearly a year of being here at Juno Way we discovered that our commitment to running space, covering its costs, price of labour, having equipment in working condition, means we struggle to put aside funds for educational matters. Books are especially difficult. We know how valuable they would be for our students, members, key holder artists who work from the studio, open-access users.
Bowls for books is a radical measure to ensure we would be able to grow our library and knowledge base in the nearest future. We will distribute* new set of hand-made bowls though this website, and special one-off hand-made thrown planters directly from a shelf in our Juno Way studio. This way we plan to raise funds to add most desired books to the in-studio library, which all visitors would be welcome to refer to.
Examples of books we will acquire first:
Linda Bloomfield, Advanced Pottery, 2011
Claudia Clare, Subversive Ceramics, December 2015
Edmund De Waal, 20th Century Ceramics (World of Art)
Edmund De Waal, Bernard Leach (British Artists Series), Tate, 2013
Bernard Leach, Potter’s Book, 1976
Emmanual Cooper, Lucie Rie, Modernist Potter, 2012
Emmanual Cooper, Contemporary Ceramics, 2009
Sasha Wardell, Slipcasting, A & C Black Publishers Ltd, 2007
Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr and the Brothers Kirkpatrick, University of Illinois Press, 2007
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, 2002
Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens, Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy, 2014
STIR Magazine subscription for 2015-16Radical Routes, Footprint worker co-operative and others, How to setup worker co-operatives, 2012
*We plan to sell bowls, but we also welcome non-monetary exchange. If you would like to donate books, or exchange books you have for bowls, please drop us a line with a proposed deal. Thank you.
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Weekday People’s Pottery Class
People’s Pottery Class – Weekdays
Wednesday mornings
10:30 am – 1 pm
You have been asking us for a ceramics class running on weekdays. It seemed a good idea to us. We will be running one this Summer term to see how it goes. As usual it comes without any extra firing or material costs.
There is one more week to subscribe.
If you are up for People’s Pottery on other days, please check the dates here.
(There are only few spots left for the next term).
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Ceramics Studio Co-op among YCP Prize winners!
We are very happy to share with you that we are one of the 5 winners of AltGen and Cooperatives UK prize that would support us with funds and training to become a better co-operative!
Thank you all for being with us on this journey, following news and attending classes! We look forward to working with AltGen and Cooperatives UK on building young co-operators network, and becoming better ceramics facility and a co-operative!
Winers if Young Co-operators Prize announced – AltGen
New prize reveals that collaborative entrepreneurship thrives among young – Cooperatives UK
