FULL PROGRAM CERAMICS 2024/2025
Head of Department: Vasco Futscher, Coordenador: Madalena Parreira
Full three-year programme. The emphasis on practice, complemented by interventions of guest professors, guided tours and historical information, aims at providing a solid knowledge of the tradition of Ceramics as well as a basis for innovation. A progressive autonomy of the students’ work is expected and individual expression is encouraged. The school year is divided into modules of variable duration, overseen by dif-ferent teachers, allowing for the exploration of different approaches to the ceramic materials. The modules’ thematic content orients the students’ practice towards a variety of techniques and procedures.
Options of further development: Individual Project and/or Advanced Course in Visual Arts.
Teachers: Vasco Futscher Pereira, Jorge Nesbitt, Elsa Figueiredo, Rubi, Madalena Parreira, Paulo Rosica, Cyrielle Marchetti, Lara Amaral, Luis Royal, Katie Lagast, Manuela Falcão,
Manuela Correia Braga, Hugo Bernardo and other guest teachers.
Fee 10 x 240€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Disciplines
Notes
Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments schedule
Fee 10 x 230€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Admission Ceramics 2 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Disciplines
Notes
Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments Timetable
Fee 10 x 230€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Admission Ceramics 2 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Disciplines
Notes
Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments Timetable
Price 10 x 170€ + 120€ (Enrol) + 4,50€(Insur) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Schedule Tuesdays and Thursdays from 19h to 21h (see modules)
Type annual
Program
On-premise classes.
Introduction to Ceramics through a theorethical and practical approach. The course’s objective is to en-courage participants to learn the basic techniques through research, experimentation and manipulation of the ceramic materials in the context of creative exercises presented throughout the school year, in the pro-jects class. We will learn basic building techniques in clay and paper clay, with coils, slab and carving block, engobes, glaze and coloured pastes, casting slips and porcelain; wheel, molds; firing in eletric and gas kilns, as well as different types of finishes. Experimentation and concentration are highly emphasized as factors of rigour and progress.
Modules:
Construction in Ceramics
Teacher: Cyrielle Marchetti
Dates: 15 de Out a 19 Dez de 2024
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Molds
Teacher: Bianca Silveira
Dates: de 2 de Jan a 23 Jan de 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 22h
Porcelain
Teacher: Lara Amaral
Dates: 18 Feb to 10 Apr 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Glazing
Teacher: Manuela Falcão
Dates: 22 Apr to 15 May 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Barbotines
Teacher: Lara Amaral
Dates: 20 May to 17 Jun 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Potter's Wheel
Teacher: Paulo Rosica
Dates: 21 Oct to 27 Nov 2024 (por turnos)
Horário:
Turno 1 – Mondays from 19h to 21h
Turno 2 – Wednesdays from 19h to 21h
Theoretical Course: From the earth it came, from clay it was done: beasts and gods, devils and saints
On-line classes
Teacher: Manuela Correia Braga
Dates: 23 Apr to 11 Jun 2025
Horário: Wednesdays 18h00 to 20h00
Ceramics studio
On-premise.
Free use of the Ceramics studio, pending on available schedules.: Mondays and Wednesdays from 17h to 21h; Fridays from14h to 20h
Teachers
Notes
Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments Schedule
Price 10 x 170€ + 120€ (Enrol) + 4,50€(Insur) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Schedule 3ª e 5ª feira das 19h às 21h (see modules)
Type annual
Program
On-premisse classes
Development of the the skills and knowledge accquired in Level 1 of the Evening Course, with the objec-tive of rendering the work progressively more autonomous. The school year is divided in modules of vari-able length, with different teachers, allowing for the exploration of various approaches, techniques and procedures. Several exercises will be proposed in the project class throughout the year, so as to encourage development of authorial work. Experimentation and concentration are highly emphasized as factors of rigour and progress.
Modules:
Construction in Ceramics
Teacher: Cyrielle Marchetti
Dates: 15 de Out a 19 Dez de 2024
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Molds
Teacher: Bianca Silveira
Dates: de 2 de Jan a 23 Jan de 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 22h
Porcelain
Teacher: Lara Amaral
Dates: 18 Feb to 10 Apr 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Glazing
Teacher: Manuela Falcão
Dates: 22 Apr to 15 May 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Barbotines
Teacher: Lara Amaral
Dates: 20 May to 17 Jun 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Potter's Wheel
Teacher: Paulo Rosica
Dates: 21 Oct to 27 Nov 2024 (por turnos)
Horário:
Turno 1 – Mondays from 19h to 21h
Turno 2 – Wednesdays from 19h to 21h
Theoretical Course: From the earth it came, from clay it was done: beasts and gods, devils and saints
On-line classes
Teacher: Manuela Correia Braga
Dates: 23 Apr to 11 Jun 2025
Horário: Wednesdays 18h00 to 20h00
Ceramics studio
On-premise.
Free use of the Ceramics studio, pending on available schedules.: Mondays and Wednesdays from 17h to 21h; Fridays from14h to 20h
Teachers
Notes
Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments Schedule
Price 10 x 170€ + 120€ (Enrol) + 4,50€(Insur) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Schedule Tuesdays and Thursdays from 19h to 21h (see modules)
Type annual
Program
On Premise classes
Evening Course in Ceramics 3 is the thrird and last year of the Evening Course in Ceramics. The partici-pants’ progress is evaluated by various teachers and formally confirmed, twice a year, by the head of de-partment. Throughout the school year individual portfolios – ideally consistent and diversified - will be built. Distinctive characteristics of Ceramics 3: strong emphasis on personal, autonomous authorial work; command of diversified ceramics techniques; pieces in bigger dimensions; fluency in building with coils, slab and carving blocks; different types of finishes and modes of construction; importance attributed to experimentation and concentration as factors of rigour and progress. Participants are expected to accompa-ny the firing of pieces and become autonomous in the use of kilns.
Modules:
Construction in Ceramics
Teacher: Cyrielle Marchetti
Dates: 15 de Out a 19 Dez de 2024
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Molds
Teacher: Bianca Silveira
Dates: de 2 de Jan a 23 Jan de 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 22h
Porcelain
Teacher: Lara Amaral
Dates: 18 Feb to 10 Apr 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Glazing
Teacher: Manuela Falcão
Dates: 22 Apr to 15 May 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Barbotines
Teacher: Lara Amaral
Dates: 20 May to 17 Jun 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 19h to 21h
Ceramics Projects III
Teacher: to be announced
Dates: 16 and 23 Oct; 4 and 11 Dec 2024; 19 and 26 Feb; 30 Apr and 7 May 2025
Schedule: Wednesdays from 19h to 22h
Theoretical Course: From the earth it came, from clay it was done: beasts and gods, devils and saints
On-line classes
Teacher: Manuela Correia Braga
Dates: 23 Apr to 11 Jun 2025
Horário: Wednesdays 18h00 to 20h00
Ceramics studio
On-premise.
Free use of the Ceramics studio, pending on available schedules.: Mondays and Wednesdays from 17h to 21h; Fridays from14h to 20h
Teachers
Notes
Materials not included, More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Options for further development: Individual Project and/or Advanced Course in the Visual Arts.
Attachments Schedule
SAT Ceramics Workshop: Potter's Wheel
Date 14 and 21 Dec 2024
Price 145€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials included
Schedule Saturdays from 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
Learning how to build on the potter’s wheel. Exploring the formal properties of this technique. Firing the works using a conventional kiln.
Teachers
Theoretical Course: From the earth it came, from clay it was done: beasts and gods, devils and saints
Date 23 Apr to 11 Jun 2025
Price 145€ + 14€ (insc)
Schedule Wednesdays from 18h to 20h
Type occasional
Program
With less than a knife, sometimes with only the hands, the first objects of practical use or protection – con-tainer, adornment, amulet - came from the simplest matter.
These objects crossed all civilizations and their meaning is a well kept secret in the History of Humanity. From a plastic viewpoint, they attained perfection in times so old that, in many cases, not even writing ex-ists to describe them.
But they travelled through time, mixing the sacred and the profane, the erudite and the popular. The tech-nique was not lost, it was in fact perfected, to the point where technology needs ceramics as much as the potter that made a living of it.
Since nothing exists in isolation, we will bring out other materials and other arts and allow the thread of stories to be the potter’s wheel, and the images created by hand or evoked by the shamans to become con-temporary installations full of mystery, with the most “povera” of arts.
Teachers
