Communities
Bringing together community through clay.
The Leach Pottery works in partnership with local charities and organisations to offer creative workshops to all. These enable participants, who would otherwise face barriers accessing the Leach Pottery independently, to engage with the art, ideas and making of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada and the many potters who have contributed to the pottery’s development. The programme enables the development of new and transferable skills, qualifications and rehabilitation. We are grateful to be funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and Cornwall Council.
The Leach Pottery welcomes Community groups for museum tours and workshops. Participants discover the story of the Leach Pottery followed by a creative workshop in the studio where ceramics will be made and fired. Workshops can also take place offsite.
See more about our projects and partnerships below. Please contact ellen.love@leachpottery to find out more. Below are details of some of our partnership groups:
Promas Carers Long form creative courses in hand-building and throwing for unpaid carers
Social Prescribing: Creative workshops for patients referred from GPs at local doctor’s surgeries.
Mud Club Studio Evenings (Ages 18 - 25) Free tutored creative evening workshops for local young people.
Sensory Trust: Wednesday Wanderers
A creative walking, nature and ceramic project for people living with dementia and their carers.
Community Studio Afternoons A supportive and creative afternoon club for community programme participants
St Ives School of Painting: Culture Camp Young people from schools, pupil referral units and the Community & Hospital Education Service.
People & Pottery: Co-production A community informed exhibition & co-produced pottery collection.
Pots for Trelya A co-produced collection of tableware for the Trelya Café by children, young people and adults
Archive
Past community projects.