At SVA, The Clay's The Thing

“Hath not the potter power over the clay?” wonders the Bible. We don’t know about potters, but dozens of New Yorkers gathered in a mood of artistic ebullience last week to happily sculpt, squeeze and carve their way through a Wieden + Ken nedy-sponsored clayfest in Union Square.

One minute the square held just your normal pack of sunning slackers. Then, suddenly, a truckload of gray sculpting clay showed up—a staggering five tons in all, dumped in a 10-foot mound on which passersby could carve designs and shapes.