All the Things You Could Be
Date: Saturday 16 August 2025
Time: 12:30 - 2:30pm (drop in)
Venue: Fenton Town Hall, Ballroom
Clay drop in workshop with Katie Boccaccini Meadows
Exploring the Value of Making, Reclamation, and Personal Growth
Join artist Katie Boccaccini Meadows for a unique, sustainable clay-based workshop that invites participants to reflect on the transformative power of craft. All the Things You Could Be is more than a ceramics workshop —it's a journey into the value of making, the impermanence of materials, and the potential within each of us.
What You’ll Experience: This workshop begins with a hands-on introduction to clay reclamation—the process of returning dried clay to its original, workable state. Using reclaimed red clay, participants will:
Learn how to reclaim and prepare clay
Explore basic hand building techniques
Create a personal object or artwork from the reclaimed material
Each piece will be professionally photographed and documented online, forming part of an evolving digital archive. After documentation, the clay will be broken down again ready to become something new in the next session.
What’s Included
All tools and materials provided
A wide range of creative inspiration
Professional photography of your finished piece
Inclusion in an online archive and a printed zine, mailed to each participant
A deeper understanding of clay as a reusable, living material
Why It Matters
This workshop encourages us to think of craft as a verb—a process of doing, learning, and growing. It’s a celebration of:
Sustainability in artmaking
The mental health and wellbeing benefits of creative practice
The possibilities and potential unlocked through learning and making
Who Can Join?
Open to all skill levels, this workshop is perfect for anyone curious about ceramics, sustainability, or the deeper meaning behind creative practice. Whether you're new to clay or an experienced maker, you'll find inspiration in the process and community.
Come and join Katie at this free, drop-in workshop on Saturday 16 August 2025, between 11.30am and 2.30pm at Fenton Town Hall whilst visiting the Three Counties Open Art Exhibition!
Artist Biography: Katie Boccaccini Meadows is an experimental ceramic artist whose work utilises the transient qualities of clay and ceramic processes to make time-based sculpture, film and installation. Referencing the rich history of ceramics and its historical relevance to civilisation. She’s interested craft as an integral part of culture and community and as a tool for connection both culturally and with one's own state of mind. Graduating with First Class Degree in ceramics 2010 Katie went on to win the British Design Centre’s New Designer of the Year runner-up award. She now exhibits her work nationwide, in London and internationally. She teaches regularly at ceramic studios and guest lecturers at colleges.
FREE EVENT. No booking required just drop in. Suitable for all ages.
Parking & access: lots of on street parking in the streets outside of the venue, also small P&D car park to the rear of Fenton Town Hall. The main entrance has steps, there is a side door with flat entrance accessed by a push button door, and access to a lift to the Ballroom.
Event date
16 August 2025
Event Time
12:30PM
Location
Fenton Town Hall, Ballroom, Albert Square, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 3AJ
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