Studio & Community
The BCB Studio is a space to work with clay, based in the heart of Stoke on Trent at Spode Works.
It is a place to meet others, learn and share skills. It is somewhere you can develop your creativity and nurture your wellbeing. It is a clay community in the heart of the ceramic city.
Here you can access making opportunities, whatever your level of experience.
Beginners
We host adult learning courses and family ‘Clay Together’ sessions for beginners. These are artist-led sessions, with step-by-step guidance through a making activity.
Next steps
Studio membership is available for those who feel confident to work independently. The studio and its facilities are open to members on Mondays and Thursdays each week.
A firing service is available for makers who create their work at home or from another studio.
Making together
We love what happens when people come together and work with clay on group projects. There are regular opportunities to do this throughout the year. This year we are working on a project called Stoke Makes Plates.
Clay Comrades
Our regular studio members have formed an artist collective called ‘Clay Comrades.’ They work together on fun and creative projects and commissions.
The Studio programme is kindly supported by Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Community Investment Fund.
Projects > Studio & Community
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Open Studio
British Ceramics Biennial provides open-access ceramics facilities in Stoke-on-Trent. We run our studio from the historic Spode Works factory site in the centre of…
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Hire Kiln Space
Do you have clay work that you need to fire? Hire kiln space in one of our electric kilns at our studio at Spode…
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Recast
The Recast project combines creativity, addiction recovery and clay. Recast is a collaboration between Stoke Recovery Service and BCB that’s been running since 2017. …
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Moulding Memories
What is Moulding Memories about? Moulding Memories is a project in partnership with Approach Staffordshire. It provides support to residents of Stoke-on-Trent living with…
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