Our ceramics studio is well equipped to ensure successful pottery projects, in particular using ceramics. During workshops, students create their own one-of-a-kind objects, inspired by their own imagination. They learn to throw shapes on a pottery wheel, use mud press, and create plaster molds. What is most important, students learn the whole process of working with porcelain – the most precious ceramic material. The ceramics studio is open to all students of School of Form, regardless of the specialization they are following, and the instructors offer guidance for all projects.
What equipment is available?
The studio is divided into several zones. There is a clay and porcelain casting zone as well as a plaster form and model zone. Shelves are stuffed with shaping, modelling, cutting, and decorating tools. Two kilns for firing pottery are the hearth of the studio.
Additionally, our Ceramics Studio offers all the usual equipment used by potters, such as: a pottery wheel, a mud press, a roller, a glazing station, a pottery mixer for clay recycling, a porcelain mixer, a 3D printer, an extruder, a casting table, and many others. Students also have at their disposal other, every-day objects, which may come in handy, such as a washing machine, meat and bone cutter, latex gloves, colanders, spatulas, twigs, knives, and droppers.
The Ceramics Studio is brimming with various materials, dyes, and chemicals, which are conducive to experimenting with color and texture of objects.
What can you learn at the ceramics studio?
Ceramics is a great design tool. It helps students develop their creativity and spatial intelligence, and it improves manual skills. Moreover, it can be used to prototype and replicate products.
You will learn the whole complex process of working with porcelain, which includes modelling, making plaster forms, casting, glazing, and firing. You will become familiar with techniques and schematics of working with ceramics, so that later on, you can modify and adjust these processes while working on your own projects.
What can you learn at the ceramics studio?
Ceramics is a great design tool. It helps students develop their creativity and spatial intelligence, and it improves manual skills. Moreover, it can be used to prototype and replicate products.
You will learn the whole complex process of working with porcelain, which includes modelling, making plaster forms, casting, glazing, and firing. You will become familiar with techniques and schematics of working with ceramics, so that later on, you can modify and adjust these processes while working on your own projects.
Who will you meet at the ceramics studio?
Arkadiusz Szwed
Head of the Ceramics Studio, designer
Adam Biegała
Assistant at the Ceramics Studio, graduate of School of Form