ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the intersections of each author’s relationships with social practice, process, collaborative craft, and water access. Many groups of individuals working together in collaboratives respond to social, health, and basic human rights needs. A critical need in many parts of the world is the lack of adequate access to water. The technology and ethos of the filters have been adopted by organizations such as Potters for Peace, Potters Water Action Group, Potters Without Borders, and university-community partnerships like PureMadi, and Reservoir Studio. Speaking with US American youth about the water crisis in the context of the African diaspora evoked memories of the author older siblings fetching water from a well in the Dominican Republic. Makers process of thinking literally, symbolically, and theoretically in and through water to craft the collaborative assemblage speaks to the power of arts-based social practices.
