Mandatory Registration to museusdeaveiro@cm-aveiro.pt | 12 participants maximum
Target audiences | art students and artists
Registration fee | 10,00€
An experiential session of playful exploration of form as an expressive medium through assembly and composition. Participants will also be able to deconstruct and reconstruct previously moulded pieces.
Mandatory Registration to museusdeaveiro@cm-aveiro.pt | 15 participants maximum
Target audiences | all publics
Registration fee | 10,00€
From the visit to the exhibition that we will make beforehand, we will create small pieces that will be a creative exercise not centered on the pieces themselves, but on the environment of the exhibition in general.
Mandatory Registration to museusdeaveiro@cm-aveiro.pt | 15 participants maximum
Target audiences | all publics
Registration fee | 10,00€
In this Masterclass, we will create dialogues that question the role of traditional techniques as essential elements in the circle of our Affective Heritage. Through an approach of experimentation and memory, we will discuss manual processes that, in addition to pure technical mastery in the area of Ceramics, create paths of connection with our history, our people and our territory.
We will adopt a sensitive and attentive stance to the times, in a rescue of manual expressions from those who came before us. Remembering the past and practicing ancestral gestures is understanding our present and inevitably building our future.
A political and affective statement that honours the strength of know-how.
Mandatory Registration to museusdeaveiro@cm-aveiro.pt | 15 participants maximum
Target audiences | ceramic artists
Registration fee | 10,00€
In this masterclass, I invite participants to explore the delicate balance between strength and vulnerability that lies at the heart of my ceramic work. For over four decades, I have been working with porcelain — a material that fascinates me for its apparent fragility and hidden resilience.
Through my international exhibitions and large-scale installations, I have learned to push the limits of clay and porcelain, embracing risk and imperfection as part of the process. During this masterclass, I will share my approach to transforming fragile materials into powerful artistic statements.
I will demonstrate some of the techniques I use to enlarge delicate objects, and explain how I navigate technical challenges while staying true to the concept of fragility as a metaphor for the human condition. I hope to encourage participants to see fragility not as a limitation, but as a source of inspiration and poetic strength.
Together, we will reflect on how to bring this sensibility into our own work, experimenting, failing, and discovering the beauty that lies within impermanence and vulnerability.
Mandatory Registration to museusdeaveiro@cm-aveiro.pt | 10 participants maximum per session
Target audiences | all publics
Registration fee | 20,00€
Learn the Japanese art of repairing ceramics with gold, enhancing imperfections and giving new life to broken pieces. A poetic, manual and reflective experience about time, fragility and the beauty of imperfection.
Mandatory Registration to museusdeaveiro@cm-aveiro.pt | 12 participants maximum
Target audiences | all publics
Registration fee | 20,00€
During this workshop, participants are invited to look within themselves and do a self-analysis, choosing a skill that they would like to develop or improve in themselves.
Based on this premise, each participant will create their own piece that will metaphorically represent the chosen skill and that could serve, in the future, as an anchor piece for their daily lives. Then, textures will be applied.
In the second session, after analysing the fired pieces, enamel will be applied, so that they can be fired again.
Mandatory Registration to museusdeaveiro@cm-aveiro.pt | 10 participants maximum
Target audiences | all publics
Registration fee | 40,00€
Four days of imagination, creativity, learning and experience.
Participants will be invited to immerse in this ancient Japanese technique.
Using ceramic pastes that are highly resistant to thermal shock – stoneware – participants will be invited to make some pieces, immersing in the creative process.
These pieces will be fired and then glazed and prepared for the Rakú firing. Participants will also be given all the information they need about Rakú kilns and how they work, enabling them to develop this technique in their own workshops.
Mandatory Registration to museusdeaveiro@cm-aveiro.pt | 15 participants maximum
Target audiences | ceramic artists
Registration fee | 150,00€
“I never thought that, being self-taught, I could transform my passion and admiration for ceramics into my way of life, into the meaning of my life. Perhaps my fetal attraction to nature pushed me to the ground, to merge with the earth, with our true essence.
Through “natuRareza”, I delve into the plant psyche to discover the tormented feelings resulting from the degradation of the natural environment that humans routinely cause. I only hope that my modelling message will delve into human sensitivity to reverse the damage we are causing to ourselves.”
The main objective of this workshop is to model clay directly with our hands, without machines or tools. Only in this way can we directly transmit our feelings to the clay.
Using the “throwing” technique, we will model plates, square, flat and rectangular filaments. We will create stony textures with pieces of biscuit impregnated with coloring pigments and glaze. We will apply powdered or liquid coloring pigments to all of them, using a brush, toothbrush, sieve, etc. These processes do not apply only to sculptural pieces. The various uses of utilitarian/functional pieces will also be explained.
Mandatory Registration to museusdeaveiro@cm-aveiro.pt | 5 participants maximum per session
Target audiences | all publics
Registration fee | 20,00€
Introduction to the potter’s wheel as a way of producing utilitarian pieces. Throughout the class, the process and transformation of the material will be presented, from its beginnings as a lump of clay, through its manipulation on the pottery wheel until its transformation into a finished piece.
The class will demonstrate and practice the basic techniques for shaping a block of clay, as well as its weaknesses and qualities as a medium that is present in our daily lives.
Each student will have the opportunity to choose 1-2 pieces made by themselves that will later be glazed and delivered.