Welcome to
The Clay Commons CIC
Working at the crossroads of clay and ceramic
Our full membership programme will be launching in September 2026. In the meantime, keep in touch with all our updates by signing up to our newsletter, and book a ticket to our Launch Event at the Crafts Council, London 29th September! We look forward to seeing you there!
The Clay Commons CIC is a membership platform for an increasingly interdisciplinary and diverse landscape of clay practice and independent ceramic learning.
Across the UK, clay artists and organisations are facing the same quiet crisis: disappearing creative education, harder-to-reach funding, and the slow burnout of working without professional networks. Yet engagement with our material has arguably never been higher.
The Clay Commons CIC exists to support this moment, providing an arena to grow a community where members tackle problems alongside peers rather than in isolation, reach new audiences together, and access sector-specific opportunities that are harder to find alone. Through tailored online and in person programming, we aim to reconnect practitioners, widen access to skills, knowledge and resources, and build the networks clay practice needs to thrive into the future.
Get in touch with us
We view our organisation as clay, not ceramic: plastic, mouldable and always in progress. We welcome input from our members and critical friends, so if you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
info@theclaycommons.org
Mission
To co-create a shared community of material-led education and practice that is democratic, accessible, resilient and creative. We believe that creative education is a central agent for societal change and that clay is the common ground with which to build more equitable and creative futures.
Contact
clay.commons
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