Bow Arts & the Phoenix School project

Phoenix School project

Over the course of a term, Bow Arts artist Isabel Castro Jung spent one afternoon every week making coil and slab pots with a small class of year 5 students from Phoenix School in Bow, a well-established special school for children and young people with autism.

Discovering the medium of clay in incremental, experimental and exploratory steps, students were exposed to new materials, tools and resources, often with surprising results. By the end of term, students had made several pieces each, which went on to be painted with slip, glazed and fired.

Bow Arts is an educational arts charity that provides affordable creative workspace for a community of over 400 artists, makers and creatives. Bow Arts’ award-winning Learning Department works with over 100 schools, delivering an innovative programme of workshops, projects and training.