18th April – Commemorative cups with Aliyah Hussain at the Pioneer’s Museum

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Aliyah Hussain delivered a ceramics workshop where participants hand built mugs. Once fired and glazed, the mugs will be used by participants throughout the duration of the project.

Referencing barge ware pottery in the museum collection, which has embossed lettering detailing the place and date it was made, Aliyah had devised making activity using letter stamps to decorate and demark each individual’s mug. The marking of the object with the makers name was an effort to ensure the history of the object does not get lost – if the mug would ever end up in a museum it will be clear who it was made by and when. There are hundreds of objects in Touchstone’s permanent collections that we do not know how they came into the collection, who donated them and why. It is an ongoing job, where the collections team try to find an objects history.