May 18-19 // Espresso Studio, Baba Novac 27
* age limit 7+
* we recommend parents to participate with their children
* cost of participation / person – 45 RON (payment on the spot)
* registration subject to availability – 12 places / workshop
* registration in advance on 0774 624 379
Creative or artistic workshops have gained a lot of popularity lately. We like to think that CAOLIN – the International Festival of Contemporary Ceramics – has made an important contribution to this phenomenon, and for several years now it has been offering art lovers an interactive section. The CAOLIN workshops are organized at the Espresso Studio art café, which also hosts artistic initiation courses throughout the year. The purpose of these workshops is not only recreational but also educational. Modeling or painting on ceramics are activities that significantly reduce the effects of everyday stress and overuse of technology, conditions that tend to alienate us from our own nature. By interacting with the material, the participant is introduced to a process of reconnection with the environment, multi-sensory re-education, inner balance and creative capacity.
The artistic creation workshops will be held by professional visual artists at the festival’s café – Espresso Studio (27 Baba Novac Street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) – and are scheduled as follows:
Saturday (May 18)
11:00-13:00 – Building a ceramic object
Participants will make ceramic objects using a special Japanese technique ~ Nerikomi)
Coordinator: Koncz-Münich Andras Koncz – visual artist
14:00-16:00 – Making clay tablets
The participants will make replicas of the famous Tlalteblițe from Tărtăria
Coordinator: Monica Bodea, specialist of the Museum of the History of Transylvania
17:00-19:00 – Reconstruction of a ceramic object
Participants will learn how to reconstruct a broken ceramic object using expert techniques
Coordinators: Master students at the Department of Restoration at the University of Art and Design in Cluj
Sunday (May 19)
10:00-12:00 – Building a ceramic object
You will learn various techniques of free-hand construction of ceramic objects
Coordinator: Denisa Curte – visual artist
13:00-15:00 – Painting on ceramics
Participants will paint ceramic objects with motifs specific to Cucuteni pottery
Coordinator: Cristina Gagiu – visual artist
16:00-18:00 – Zoomorphic figurines / ancient toys
Participants will model ceramic figurines as they made toys two thousand years ago
Coordinator: Laura Petresc – visual artist – Terra Dacica Aeterna Association
* registration is subject to availability on 0774 624 379