This program is an intensive wheel-throwing perfectioning course with a plus: the throwing is combined with free-hands techniques to modify wheel-thrown shapes to achieve unique results.
The wheel is a fascinating tool that allows us to create concave shapes such as plates, vases and cups. These are all round objects. But what if we wanted to make a squared plate? Or a multi-faced bottle? Wheel throwing allows you to rapidly generate shapes that can also be adjusted and modified later. It is possible to throw a vase on the wheel, and then transform it into an animal vase in the shapes of a fish or a duck.. During this two-week course we will learn together how to throw simple forms and how to possibly manipulate them according to our imagination.
Although the course is focussed on learning rather than making pieces, you will be able to keep some of the pieces you make:
Shipping costs are charged extra, and can vary from 40€ for 3 kg for Germany, to 80€ for 3kg shipped to the US.
This course is right for you if:
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Marta Vino was born and grew up in Apulia, in Southern Italy. After a long period of academic study between Rome and Lisbon, she discovered clay and dedicated her whole self to ceramic. When back to Italy in 2017, Marta has been working as apprentice in a pottery studio for two years and attended dozens of workshops about ceramic techniques, from porcelain nerikomi to etruscan bucchero. Three years ago, she started experimenting with wood-firing. Her academic background stands through her interest in history, popular pottery and local ceramic materials. She’s currently based in Turin where she runs her own studio: here she produces her ceramic work and teaches wheel throwing and chemistry of ceramic materials.
During this week, you won’t just get a ceramics course. We’ve also organised a program of activity so that you can connect with Sicilian culture, get to know beautiful Salemi and its rich history and territory.
You will:
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The Salemi School of Ceramics is a social enterprise that has been opened to create a learning centre for contemporary ceramics, the first of its kind in Sicily.
The School has been created in partnership with the local town of Salemi, which has provided the gorgeous space - the Sant'Agostino Monastery - that will be used for the school.
Salemi has a gorgeous historical centre and because it is quiet and peaceful, it is the perfect place for a mindful ceramics retreat.
Classes will be held from Monday through to Friday. On Sunday, there will be a welcome dinner and on Saturday, we will bid you farewell. Classes will be 4h each morning
(9am-1pm) and 2/3h each afternoon (2-5pm), except one afternoon of cultural activities.
Order of the day:
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The Salemi Project wants to make Salemi a recognised centre for contemporary ceramic art. Come and be part of it!
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