Crafts CouncilDirectoryWOODSETTON ART POTTERYOSTRACISM & THE “JUDGMENT OF THE POTSHERDS”An audience participation project at Potfest by Lorraine Bates & Jo Stant of Woodsetton Art PotteryAboutOSTRACISM was the 5th century Athenian juridical practice in which a powerful person could be exiled. All citizens could vote out an individual by writing their name on broken pottery or "OSTRACA" dropped into a pot for counting with that person ostracised for up to ten years. If you had the chance to curtail the real world and algorithmic power of an individual, who would it be?WOODSETTON ART POTTERYWest Midlands, EnglandSTRANGE FRUIT, L.G. BatesOSTRACISM & THE “JUDGMENT OF THE POTSHERDS”An audience participation project at Potfest by Lorraine Bates & Jo Stant of Woodsetton Art PotteryAboutOSTRACISM was the 5th century Athenian juridical practice in which a powerful person could be exiled. All citizens could vote out an individual by writing their name on broken pottery or "OSTRACA" dropped into a pot for counting with that person ostracised for up to ten years. If you had the chance to curtail the real world and algorithmic power of an individual, who would it be?WOODSETTON ART POTTERYWest Midlands, EnglandSTRANGE FRUIT, L.G. BatesMore from WOODSETTON ART POTTERYProjectBlack County Enamel WaresProject“LAPWORTH LATE” AT UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Kaolinite + Minerals + Metal Oxides + Heat = PotsProjectVICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM. Product development alongside their major exhibition “Decadence and Dreams: Art Nouveau 1890-1914”ProjectKeswick School of Industrial Arts at Keswick Museum & Art GalleryProjectBIRMINGHAM MUSEUM & ART GALLERY WORKSHOPSProjectIn preparation for upcoming celebrations of Dudley International Geopark Status