{"id":274000,"date":"2026-08-28T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274000\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:00:09","slug":"operation-mud-teaches-veterans-the-art-of-ceramics-in-philadelphia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274000\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Operation Mud’ teaches veterans the art of ceramics in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

ByMatteo Iadonisi<\/p>\n

Friday, August 28, 2026 2:21PM<\/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 2:21PM Army veteran Bradford Davis created ‘Operation Mud’ to help veterans mold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25257,6889,115213,12590,115212,69,71,70,19655,2349],"class_list":["post-274000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-army","tag-art","tag-bradford-davis","tag-ceramics","tag-operation-mud","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-vet","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}