POW! at Wistariahurst Mother’s Day Market
Saturday, May 2, 2026
10am to 1pm, Wistariahurst Museum, 238 Cabot St. Holyoke, MA
POW! is partnering with Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke, MA for their second annual Mother's Day Market and Plant Sale. Our project is a continuation of our decade-long Make-A-Cup, Take-A-Cup community art program. We provide clay, tools and a potter's wheel for visitors to make cups free of charge. Participant’s newly made wet cups are exchanged with finished cups created at previous events. This event is admission-free and open to the public
ONGOING PROJECTS
The Protest Cup Fellowship, presented at NCECA in 2026, offered artists a platform to express feelings about many issues, including gender, queer, and racial equity, free speech, environmental degradation, healthcare, education, war, poverty, human trafficking, migration and food systems. Featuring forty-one artists from across the US, this exhibition purposefully reinterpreted the cup into a subversive object by means of decoration, form, and how the object functions. In addition to thinking about the cups as protest objects, our exhibition itself was an anti-capitalist protest. We used a profit-sharing model of compensation rooted in equity and inclusivity–one that valued both the makers and those seeking to engage with and own pottery.
Interested in learning more and being involved in future iterations of the fellowship? Contact us!
Pots On Wheels — POW! — is a mobile clay education and exhibition space, opening new doors of creative experience to communities and organizations.
OUTREACH
The POW! truck allows established and emerging ceramic artists to share their knowledge and perspectives with audiences of all ages and backgrounds outside the conventional educational or studio settings.
ENGAGEMENT
By encouraging participants to actively participate in the creation of hand-made objects, POW! cultivates each individual'sability to make something useful and beautiful with their hands, and their understanding of how that can impact the experiences of others.
AWARENESS
The gallery space within in the POW! truck serves as a showcase for the diverse and dynamic range of functional handmade ceramics currently being created by artists from around the country (and sometimes even by program participants!).
Hands-on creativity
Most POW! event participants have never had the chance to make something with clay. For others, it rekindles a joy they may not have had the opportunity to pursue in decades. You would be surprised by what you are capable of!
Connecting people & ideas
Our Make-A-Cup, Take-A-Cup exchange has given a first-hand introduction to creating an original clay object to thousands of participants! Folks can decorate (and sometimes even hand-make) a cup that will be part of a future POW! event, while taking home a cup that someone else decorated at a previous one.