Level One Media and Performing Arts students found out how practitioners in the arts, crafts and design industry create beautiful and unusual objects, while on a visit to the Leeds Craft Centre and Design Gallery. The students were asked to follow a trail around the gallery to identify and explore various pieces and consider aspects of the job roles of their creators including fine artists, ceramicists, sculptors, jewellery makers and textile designers. Leeds City College tut

We ventured to the very first Ceramic Art York on Thursday to attend the preview; what a great bunch of warm and friendly makers they were! It was a very inspiring and fun evening. Presented by the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain and York Museums Trust, Ceramic Art York is an exciting new showcase of contemporary ceramic art and one which is definitely worth a visit. This new event is taking place to mark the opening of the new Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) at Yo

Currently showcasing his work here in Leeds in his first ever solo Ceramic Showcase with us, Paul Jackson shares his early influences in his creative career. Links with Yorkshire sculptor Henry Moore reveal an exciting past. Later on I was to meet the assistant sculptors and I also met fellow Henry Moore was born in Castleford, the son of a coal miner. He became well-known through his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in in