The handmade courses are the most flexible courses we offer, as beginners and slightly more experienced students create together in the same class.
Beginners follow a curriculum consisting of three introductory cycles in which students gradually learn the basic principles of construction and decoration.
In the first cycle, students learn the basic practices of preparing and processing clay. They experiment by making utilitarian or decorative pieces with the coil technique, while practicing the use of color and clay decoration methods.
The second ceramics cycle focuses on the use of slabs, a particularly widespread technique with significant potential. Using the slab technique, students expand the means at their disposal and create a series of ceramic objects.
In the third cycle of ceramics, students, now with greater autonomy in the construction and decoration of clay objects, perfect their skills through practice in the pinching technique, thus completing their knowledge of the basic techniques of handmade ceramics.
The more experienced students, having mastered the above techniques, have greater creative freedom. They are invited to proceed to constructions that combine all the techniques and have access to more materials, as well as to experiment in order to create the personal style of their constructions.