July 2108
Taking it to the Streets
The Clay Studio, located in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood since 1974, is currently preparing for a move to nearby Kensington. Together with the organisation’s curator, Jennifer Zwilling, artist Roberto Lugo conceived a disarmingly simple idea: he takes his wheel out into the streets of Kensington where he grew up and starts throwing. It’s an unusual sight, and he reliably gets a crowd of interested local people, some of whom have never seen a potter at work. Zwilling says that for her and her colleagues, ‘the pop-up wheel-throwing events provide a great opportunity to engage our new neighbors and invite them to be partners in our planning process’.
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