26/03/2026
Students are offered the chance to donate their Christmas week fees towards workshops for their local community. As well as Garden City Housing in a monthly basis, this month we also worked with Herts Vision Loss who support people who are blind or have partial sight.
They were really receptive and open with great listening skills.
We had to use touch, showing techniques on their hands to enable the participants to feel how hard to press and what movement to use in order to change the shape of a pot.
They made several wonderful little pots using Terracotta clay, which is a messy but tactile clay to work with.
Those of us who are sighted did do a visual check to make sure no one wandered off with random clay stripes on their faces or fingernails with a layer of clay underneath.
We got to make a new doggy friend too. 🐾
Cant wait to give them their pots back 🏺 so that they can feel the difference.
