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Mudmobile   Click here for Mudmobile Archives Click here for Mudmobile Photos The Mudmobile is a traveling ceramics resource center in a van. It allows Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts to bring clay art education to diverse sites and populations throughout Maine such as community and cultural centers, social service shelters, senior programs, and schools both public and private. The van is used to transport clay, tools, glazes, reference materials, and provides everything needed to a host site for clay workshops and brings work back to Watershed for firing. The Mudmobile is staffed by artists with advanced degrees and years of practice in the ceramic arts as well as experience teaching adults and children. If you would like to know more about becoming a Mudmobile host site, or if you would like to join our corporate and foundation sponsors in supporting the work of the Mudmobile, contact Watershed. programs@watershedceramics.org 207.882.6075 Click here for printable mudmobile information. Click here for Resident Instructor profiles. Mudmobile 2004-2005 In September 2005, Mudmobile convened a number of founding supporters including: Sharon Townshend, Lynn Thompson, and Lucy Breslin as well as Maine Arts Commission Arts in Education Associate Paul Faria to discuss programmatic directions and recommendations to make Mudmobile an even more effective resource. Two of the recommendations are tied to creating and offering thematic workshop packages that satisfy visual arts requirements of Maine Learning Results. As always, feedback from past host sites is welcomed and encouraged, in addition to suggestions from those new to Mudmobile! Mudmobile has traveled to twenty-five sites, working with over one thousand, six hundred students, teachers, and parents. Some of the year’s accomplishments include a week-long workshop and tile mural installation at York Highschool, making Earth Day tiles with students at Hermon Elementary School, and building trays and vases with seniors who are residents at Cottonmill Apartments in Hallowell. Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maine Arts Commission, and the Ramlose Foundation supported two special workshop projects which included exhibitions of works from the Mudmobile Ceramic Study Collection. The participating organizations were Artworks (and the children who work with the ArtVan), housed at Bath Recreation, and visually disabled and blind members of the IRIS Network in Portland. These workshop projects represent a move to integrate examples of contemporary ceramic art (predominantly made in Maine) into the existing hands-on workshop experiences Mudmobile provides. Both workshops were received with great enthusiasm; we look forward to working with each organization again! Winter 2005 also saw the start of a collaborative effort with the Greater Portland YMCA to provide professional and technical ceramic assistance to their current art program offerings. We are excited to be a part of bringing hands-on clay experiences to one of the few YMCA art programs in the state! Check back in June for updates from 2005-2006!