15 Soda firing in contemporary Ceramics
Instructor: Pietro Maddalena
Type: Throwing - Advanced
Date: April 16 - 24, 2010
The workshop is open for advanced or professional potters and ceramic artists who wish to expand their aesthetic and expressive vocabulary and acquire tools and methodologies for the assessment of their work.
During the studio sessions participants will produce thrown or hand built work in stoneware. The chemistry of the soda firing process will be explained and discussed thoroughly, to provide an understanding of the combustion taking place in the soda kiln, increase through the practical experience.
Furthermore there will be exploration of communication via the web to promote work, to find further learning tools and to communicate with the broader ceramic community. The set up of a web-forum dedicated to the contents of the workshop will give participants the opportunity to experiment new ways of communication. Through participants contacts with potter guilds in various countries will be established, to create a transeuropean network on ceramics. The workshop is taught in English.
The project has been granted funding by the European Community and funding covers travel, accommodation, materials and teaching.
Application process
Interested learners must fill out the application form by December 31, 2009 and will receive communication about their candidature by January 20th, 2010
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Pietro Elia Maddalena studied ceramics at the West Surrey College of Art & Design in England. After two more years of work at Dartington Workshop, he returned to Italy where in 1980 he established a studio in Certaldo, near Florence. Pietro is the founder and director of the International School of Ceramics LA MERIDIANA located in Tuscany, Italy. Also instructor and maker he says of himself : “ I am totally and continuously interested in the process of making. I see the craft object as a projection of the human spirit and the culture in which it was nurtured. In elaborating concept, material and process, my ultimate goal is the expression of beauty through sophisticated and sensual forms”.
