Bowls for Books is a new co-operative member’s initiative though which we aim to fundraise for common-use library in the ceramics studios.
Though nearly a year of being here at Juno Way we discovered that our commitment to running space, covering its costs, price of labour, having equipment in working condition, means we struggle to put aside funds for educational matters. Books are especially difficult. We know how valuable they would be for our students, members, key holder artists who work from the studio, open-access users.
Bowls for books is a radical measure to ensure we would be able to grow our library and knowledge base in the nearest future. We will distribute* new set of hand-made bowls though this website, and special one-off hand-made thrown planters directly from a shelf in our Juno Way studio. This way we plan to raise funds to add most desired books to the in-studio library, which all visitors would be welcome to refer to.
Examples of books we will acquire first:
Linda Bloomfield, Advanced Pottery, 2011
Claudia Clare, Subversive Ceramics, December 2015
Edmund De Waal, 20th Century Ceramics (World of Art)
Edmund De Waal, Bernard Leach (British Artists Series), Tate, 2013
Bernard Leach, Potter’s Book, 1976
Emmanual Cooper, Lucie Rie, Modernist Potter, 2012
Emmanual Cooper, Contemporary Ceramics, 2009
Sasha Wardell, Slipcasting, A & C Black Publishers Ltd, 2007
Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr and the Brothers Kirkpatrick, University of Illinois Press, 2007
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, 2002
Vasilis Kostakis, Michel Bauwens, Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy, 2014
STIR Magazine subscription for 2015-16
Radical Routes, Footprint worker co-operative and others, How to setup worker co-operatives, 2012
*We plan to sell bowls, but we also welcome non-monetary exchange. If you would like to donate books, or exchange books you have for bowls, please drop us a line with a proposed deal. Thank you.