{"id":1029583,"date":"2026-08-28T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1029583\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:13:18","slug":"operation-mud-teaches-veterans-the-art-of-ceramics-in-philadelphia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1029583\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Operation Mud’ teaches veterans the art of ceramics in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

ByMatteo Iadonisi<\/p>\n

Friday, August 28, 2026 2:01PM<\/p>\n

Army veteran Bradford Davis created ‘Operation Mud’ to help veterans mold their shared experiences into ceramic works of art.<\/p>\n

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — When veteran Bradford Davis was injured in the Army, the scars turned him away from his love of art.<\/p>\n

But he took the proverbial ‘mud’ from his boots and molded it into something amazing.<\/p>\n

He created ‘Operation Mud,’ a free class in which veterans can learn the art of ceramics.<\/p>\n

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It is housed within The Clay Studio in North Philadelphia, where Davis is currently a resident artist.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Operation Mud, watch the video above and visit their website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByMatteo Iadonisi Friday, August 28, 2026 2:01PM Army veteran Bradford Davis created ‘Operation Mud’ to help veterans mold…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1029584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,20179,1037,411722,76054,411721,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,304371,2512],"class_list":["post-1029583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-army","tag-art","tag-bradford-davis","tag-ceramics","tag-operation-mud","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vet","tag-veterans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117173554164653897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}