The L.A. Fort

Clay Day LBC’s Mobile Pottery Studio program brings the art of ceramics into Long Beach elementary and middle schools, enhancing art education for thousands of students. We provide the tools and materials, teach the lessons, transport and fire the artwork, and return finished creations to student artists. Free to teachers, families, and schools, our in-school ceramics education is an accessible, dependable, joyful component of learning for a growing number of underserved TK–8th-graders. 

As the only bookstore in Los Angeles specializing in children’s literature in Spanish, we will implement a bilingual STEAM and literature program for K to 5th grade students that utilizes Spanish-language and bilingual books to explore science, technology, and art through a multicultural perspective. Centered on culturally relevant stories, the program affirms identity, fosters creative expression, and strengthens community by using language as a bridge to diverse ways of learning and understanding.

People's Pottery Project empowers formerly incarcerated women and trans people through our non-profit ceramics arts studio. Guided by formerly incarcerated leaders, our collectively built arts center is a place for healing, education, and community. With support from LA2050, we will more that double our studio space (adding a 3,000 sq ft studio), double the number of formerly incarcerated people we employ (from 7 to up to 20), and provide healing ceramics classes to up to 1,000 members of the community.

Our goal is to create an ever-evolving space where the public can be fully emerged in participatory environments that include installations