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Arts and Crafts school

The Cerdeira Arts and Crafts School is a space for learning techniques that result from timeless lines and, simultaneously, a place
for ​​creativity and art with a contemporary twist. We offer:

1 to 3 days workshops for beginners, and longer courses, 5-10 days, that allow greater technical advance and immerse yourself in creative work.

If you are a professional artist, our classes offer a rich environment dedicated to real skills, rooted in tradition, and a space for your creativity to grow.

Our teachers are Portuguese and foreign professional artists, specialists in their field who are happy to share their knowledge with those looking for our courses.


 

Ceramics

Cerdeira is specially dedicated to ceramics with a fully equipped workshop and one of the few smokeless wood-fired kilns in Europe.

Professional ceramicists visit Cerdeira throughout the year for workshops, events, and exhibitions.

Wood

Wood has been at the very heart of the life of Cerdeira from its beginning.

Our space lends itself to the teaching and practicing of traditional and contemporary woodworking.

Basketry

Fighting against oblivion, basketry courses teach one of the oldest crafts.

Cerdeira welcomes these knowledge where technique and material find the time and silence necessary for learning to happen.

 

Calendar

 

8-14

MAY 2024

GREEN WOODWORKING COURSE
W/ Peter Lanyon

Take home your completed and unique chair! Learn to make a free-form chair of your own design. We will use fresh-cut wood cut from the surrounding forest to form the seat, legs and back for a creative and unique chair.

SOLD OUT

Ceramics and Nature W/ Lidia Bosevski

A week of immersion in nature, creativity and silence characterize this course. Observing and tracking one’s own attraction impulse towards details in nature opens up our creative center. If we allow it to inspire us and connect us with our natural sense of harmony, free from prejudice and expectations, we create through our individual sensibilities. We are part of nature.

29-02

JUN-JUL 2024

WOODCARVING WITH CHESTNUT COURSE W/ KERSTIN THOMAS & RENATO SILVA
This course is a creative approach to woodcarving as a means of personal and artistic expression.

19-28

JUL 2024

Ceramics and Woodfiring W/ Marc Lancet

6-15

SEP 2024

JAPANESE CERAMICS W/ Shirobey Kobayashi

An immersion in ceramics and Japanese culture.

24-29

SEP 2024

PAPER CLAY & PAPER PORCELAINW/ PATTY WOUTERS

In this course, you will dive into the innovative world of the materials, discovering their unique properties and creative possibilities.

22-27

OCT 2024

BASKET MAKING COURSE
W/ CARLOS FONTALES

During these five days, we will carry out baskets stacked with different vegetables fibers.

Date

to be defined

Ceramics - Rocks making Glazes w/ Matthew Blakely

Natural materials as a vehicle of an unique artistic expression.

Date

to be defined

Creating sound with ceramics
W/ Nómada Cerámica
Introduction to the world of sound ceramics.

Date

to be defined

Ceramic sound masks w/ Nómada Cerámica

An immersive experience to learn how to do a ceramic mask by connecting with the five elements.

Date

to be defined

CERAMICS & OVERGLAZING W/ DOUGLAS BLACK

Infinite Skies | Decorative techniques on Black Clay.

Date

to be defined

YOUR STOOL IN GREENWOOD WORKSHOP
W/ peter Lanyon

A two-day workshop for an introduction to the technique of working with green wood, of simple design that emphasizes the beauty of our raw material coming from the forest that surrounds the Cerdeira.