Representatives from Reservoir Studio are scheduled to join colleagues from Potters Water Action Group in New Orleans, LA next week at the annual Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference (http://www.curriculumandpedagogy.org/conference.html). Steve Carpenter and Lillian Lewis from Reservoir Studio along with Dick Wukich, Mike Stubna, Johnathan Schwarz, and Charlie Alessi from Potters Water Action Group. The presentation is entitled “A Public Intervention/Performance by Potters Water Action Group and Reservoir Studio.

The proposal abstract in the conference program reads: Ceramic water filters produced from local materials offer an affordable means for rendering disease causing, contaminated water potable. In this public intervention/performance, members of Reservoir Studio and Potters Water Action Group produce and demonstrate filters and provoke dialogue about the global water crisis, local materials, artistic interventions, and curricular possibilities.