ArtEZ Academy of Art & Design Zwolle

Ceramics workshop

Moulding, casting, shaping: here you quite literally work with your hands in the clay. The kilns in the ceramics workshop run every week to fire all the work or prepare it for glazing. Then it’s straight to the shelves where the fired pieces are placed. Is yours already there?

Facilities

  • Ceramic kilns
  • Glaze laboratory
  • Glaze spray booth
  • Plaster room (for making moulds)
  • Potter’s wheels (for throwing and free-form work)

Techniques

  • Modelling
  • Working with press moulds
  • Working with slip-casting moulds
  • Throwing (on the potter’s wheel)
  • Glazing (your own recipes or experimental)