Clay transformations

Description

A Creatively educational game “Clay transformations” will make it possible to become virtual potters – lords of clay, experiencing clay transformation starting from clay preparation process to the artwork of fired clay. Every visitor may choose whether just to make potter’s ware, or also at each earthenware making stage to find out a variety of interesting facts about the pottery craft and its specifics. The aim of the game – becoming virtual potters and making own earthenware, to learn about potter’s craft in Latgale and its basic principles, to explore clay transformation starting from clay acquisition in the clay hill and to burned clay pot. The implicit aim of the game – to arise interest in the objects of LCHM ceramic collection, exhibition of Latgale ceramics, pottery of Latgale as one of the canons of Latvian culture, preservation of pottery traditions and its development today. Target audience of the game – pupils, students, pedagogues, especially those who study and teach art, design, culture history, folk applied art; all those who are interested in ceramics, culture and history of Latgale, tourists who might be interested in Latgale region, Latgalian values and traditions because of its ceramics.