Studio hosts different ceramics inspired events from tea gathering, clay salvaging, to international workshops.
ASH △ FIRE Join us for Ash △ Fire, a five-day workshop exploring ash glazes and high-temperature wood firing in an Anagama kiln. Taking place around the Autumn Equinox, the workshop combines hands-on learning about ash glazes and glazes from local geology and the unique experience of tending a wood kiln over several days. The workshop … Continued
EXPERIMENTAL TINY KILN BUILDING Join us for a three-day workshop exploring experimental kiln building, low-temperature wood firing, and working with local materials. Together, we will build a tiny kiln, create ceramic pieces and fire them in the earthenware range, embracing the collaborative and unpredictable nature of the process. Day 1 – Making We will handbuild … Continued
THE ART OF SACRED SOUND VESSELS Join us for a three-hour introduction to the world of ceramic sound instruments. In this hands-on workshop, each participant will create a ceramic globular flute while learning the fundamental principles that allow clay to produce sound. Globular flutes have been made for thousands of years in many parts of … Continued
LINE, COLOUR, SURFACE: DECORATING CERAMICS We welcome you to join us during a one-day workshop where we will explore a range of techniques possible in surface design and decoration of ceramics. The workshop will be held by our studio assistant Weronika Puciłowska, who learnt them through developing their Master’s diploma at the Wrocław’s Academy of … Continued
WILD GLAZE We are inviting you to our 15-hour workshop of collecting local materials and preparing glazes for ceramics, where we will discover the composition of glazes and develop our own glaze recipes through the understanding of the materials. Day 1: We will spend the first day searching for and collecting local clay and learning to … Continued
WILD CLAY We invite you to join our 15-hour workshop where we will be collecting and processing local clays and later testing and developing claybody mixtures. Day 1: We will spend the first day searching for and collecting local clay and learning to identify local geology. Day 2: We will start preparing and processing collected … Continued
Sound
Sculpture
This two-day workshop is an invitation to explore the sonic possibilities of clay through the study of ceramic technologies inspired by sound-producing vessels and instruments from the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas. Over the course of two days, we will delve into the world of sound ceramics, investigating the relationship between form, air and sound. … Continued
Creating Tiles
From Local Geology
We invite you to join us in Ljubečna for a three day workshop creating our own tiles from local geology. The workshop will be held at the Cigonce Mehulj estate, where they, to this day, produce and fire bricks in traditional way and fire in traditional kiln. Read more about the estate and their practice … Continued
The Way of Tea
3-DAY WORKSHOP CREATING TEAWARE FOR TEA CEREMONY Studio invites you to join our three day workshop where we will be creating teaware for tea ceremony. On our first day we will begin with tea ceremony with Lian from Characteas. She will present and explain the origins of tea. We will taste teas and immerse ourselves into … Continued
Clay Alchemy
We invite you to join our 4-week workshop where we will be collecting and processing local clays and later testing and developing claybody mixtures. We will then use those to create our own functional ceramics. First meeting: We will begin the workshop in the Dolenjska region, where we will search for and collect local clay and … Continued