The School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha (ESAD.CR) is strategically located in a region characterized by the presence of clay, ceramist studios and industrial mass production of Ceramics. This nature defines today the role of the city and the school in particular, as an incubator for ideas and creation in disciplines of design and ceramic work.
ESAD.CR will conduct a set of workshops here presented as an opportunity to explore ancestral techniques and languages, as well as the plasticity and the symbolic and cultural values of the material, aiming to physically expose the participants to some of the most bizarre techniques which allowed for the persistence of an active contemporary practice in Portugal.
WORKSHOP
Ceramic meets pastry, meets jewellery
In the way of working both pottery and food common paths will be found allowing to explore and combine their similarities, giving rise to objects and concepts blending these two universes.
The similarity of the ceramic techniques with the culinary field in terms of the treatment of materials, tools, firing and transformation of the “ingredients” will allow the participants to test the infinite possibilities of making and decorate Cakes through the texture and organicity in the different states of the clay (tender, slip, liquid, dry, powder). It is a representation of false reality, with the impossibility of satisfying our hunger for reality.
PORTUGUESE CERAMICS NOW!
15 – 19 July
School of Arts and Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
MENTORS
Leticia María
Is a professor at Design School in Palma (EASDIB), where she currently lives and works as a Multidisciplinary artist, she use different techniques of visual art (sculpture, photography, video), and Scenic (contemporary dance, theater and performance).
Her work focuses on the representation of stereotypes, the symbolism, the use of iconic images and products, the game, and the social role of women, as a way to show, out of context, this type of generated social behavior for the consumer society.
The intimate and the daily environment and certain social roles are the basis of my work, often mixed with the sense of humor and the absurdity of certain everyday and social scenes that reflect reality as a tragicomedy. Making the small, intimate and concrete a way to position yourself and a way to travel towards the distant, the utopia and the ideal.
Rita Frutuoso
Graduate in Design, option Technologies for Ceramics and Master in Product Design by ESAD.CR. In this school, for 12 years, she has been responsible technician for the ceramic, plaster and glass workshops in the Superior Technical category. Parallel to her professional activity at ESAD she develops her creative work, having developed her master’s research project focused on understanding and potentiating interceptions between ceramic and culinary, having pioneered the exploration of Pottery in Chocolate.
@ritafrutuosoo
Nicholas Brent Taylor
Born in the UK, Nick Taylor studied at the Stourbridge College of Art and the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. After working as Design Engineer in the Aluminium Industry he pursued a career in education. Recognised as a qualified teacher of Art and Design.
SKILL LEVEL
Participants should have experience with clay forming techniques such as hand building and modeling.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES
Porcelain, stoneware, terracotta, silver, slips, underglaze paints.
Ceramic and pastry techniques + basic silver work techniques.
PROGRAM
16 to 18 July – Afternoon: Workshop | “Jewellery” – Nick Taylor.
19 July: Workshop | “Analogies between pottery and cooking” (part.1) Rita Frutuoso + Chefe Paulo Santos (Professor at West School of Hospitality and Tourism)
Total fee: €550,00 (with accommodation)
€400,00 (without accommodation)
Included in the fee:
All workshops and materials, participant’s certificate, farewell cocktail, workshop lunches (5 lunches), 4 nights’ accommodation (15-19 July) in double bedroom with shared bathroom (every two bedrooms).
Accommodation extra:
For an additional €100,00 – Individual bedroom with private bathroom.
