 The start of a fantastic school year with the Claymobile!
Fall is always an exciting time for the Claymobile team. We press reset after the summer and jump back into working with students in classrooms, after-school programs, and more. We returned to many partner sites like the Lenfest Center and Ludlow School, while also adding a few new sites like Southwest Leadership Academy and Bayard Taylor Elementary School. Our favorite projects this fall have been leaf bowls and pinch-pot pumpkins to get us in the mood for the cool weather and changing colors of the trees. In October we also welcomed teachers back to school with our Fall Open House for Educators, a tradition we hope to continue year after year!
Spotlight: Claymobile by the numbers.
Here at The Clay Studio our development team is continuously working to support our Claymobile programs. Recently they challenged us to come up with some numbers to help demonstrate how much work the Claymobile does out in our community. Here is what we came up with:
In the 2018-2019 school year (including summer programs) the Claymobile team:
- taught 885 classes;
- worked with 3,801 students at over 100 partner sites
- used 210 pints of underglaze, 60 gallons of glaze, and 70 gallons of our special Claymobile Clear Glaze;
- we fired our kilns about 250 times; and used over 25,000 pounds of clay!
It was hard for us to picture 25,000 pounds of clay, but we determined its about 13 tons, or 4 medium-sized elephants worth of clay.
We had never examined our program by the numbers like this, but it helped us to visualize the impact of the Claymobile programming in our community. We are able to provide access to art programming for students who may not otherwise experience the power of creating in clay. This Giving Tuesday, consider supporting our Claymobile programming. $25 pays for one bag of clay for Claymobile students.
Interested in bringing Claymobile to your school or organization?
Visit us at theclaystudio.org/claymobile to fill out our partnership form.
Sincerely,
Megan Millman Lasiter
Community Engagement Manager
megan@theclaystudio.org
215-925-3453 x15
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