I recently spent a day running play with clay workshops at three of the schools affected by the Victorian bushfires earlier this year. This is part of a series of workshops organized by Books Illustrated and coordinated by Berry Street (an Independent Child and Family Welfare Organization). I was fortunate to take part in a day of activities that saw me racing from school to school and working with the students making fantastic tiles and having fun. Those wonderful colorful clay creations are now fired and glazed and will be returned to the children to take home. I would especially like to thank all those whom made this day possible including Anne Haddon and Anne James at Books Illustrated, Cindy Ferguson the Community Arts Worker at Berry Street, Brunswick North Primary School for their generous donation of clay towards the workshops and Gasworks Arts Park for their sponsorship via the firing of the tiles.

The Art of Suff-Rage traveling art installation is currently on show at the Portland Art Centre. My one hundred ceramic suffragist sculptures are on display as well as Fern Smiths banners and paintings celebrating the Centenary of Victorian Women gaining the vote in 2008. Portland was the birth place of Vida Goldstein the international renowned Australian suffragist.