For Pride this year, Join Megan Elliott (she/her) from Clay Wild Studio, for a relaxing queer pottery workshop celebrating self-love! The class will be focusing on traditional hand-building techniques using minimal tools and is suitable for all levels.
This is a class where we will be making body-pots. Participants will be shown how to make a pot out of air-drying clay. We will use a combination of pinch and coiling techniques. You will be guided through how to personalise your creations to make them into bodies - torsos, boobs, vulvas, penises, top-surgery, bums, hands, faces… anything & everything is welcome. The image in the poster is just one example of a boob-pot. This is a celebration of all bodies in whatever way feels joyful and comfortable for you. Come along this Pride to show yourself some love, reclaim, create, riot, dream.
At the end of the class, you should have one small-medium body-pot to take away with you and tips on how to decorate it at home and waterproof it for plants (if you would like).
No experience necessary - suitable for all levels! This is a class prioritising queer joy, embodiment and creativity.
Your clay will still be delicate upon completion, so please bring a little box or container to carry your creation home. A tub or a small box (approx shoe box size) is ideal. Newspaper will be available as an alternative.
Date: 20 June, 7:30-9:30pm
Location: The Glitch, 134 Lower Marsh, London, SE1 7AE. The nearest station is Waterloo.
Price: £30 (you will take home 1-2 new clay creations!)
Accessibility: The upstairs venue and toilets are wheelchair accessible, but this event is downstairs, which is currently only accessible via a flight of stairs, and there is unfortunately no lift.
About Megan:
Megan (she/her) is a queer artist and writer based in London. She has a First Class degree in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School where she specialised in sculpture and mixed-media. Now, she primarily works with clay to make sculptures and pots using hand-built techniques. She teaches pottery for events and within the community, such as in care homes. She believes passionately in the therapeutic nature of the arts. As a writer, she’s published poems and short stories in both online and print publications including BRICKS Magazine, Thought Catalog, Tickle.Life, Brenda Magazine, House of Revolution, Backlash Press and New River Press. She’s a current recipient of the London Writers Awards 2021 and is working on her first novel.
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