Pottery Intensives

Introduction

Pottery Intensive workshops are a chance to immerse yourself in your own ceramics practice with one-on-one support and instruction while living ‘la dolce vita’ in Italy.

Techniques taught

The techniques taught depend entirely on where you are and what you’re interested in learning. Want to… Up your production skills? Learn to throw larger? Add options to your surface decoration? Refine your shapes? Get figurative? Blend handbuilding and throwing? … whatever your needs are, we can help you grow.

Teaching method

Before your intensive starts, we discuss where you are and where you want to go, and we establish a learning plan. Once onsite, each studio day involves demonstrations, exercises, one-on-one instruction, personal feedback, and critiques.

Prerequisites

In these intensives, previous experience with clay is very useful, but not necessary.

Logistics

Maximum 4 participants.

Cost 750€

Cost includes pick up and drop off from Grosseto train station, breakfast and lunch each day, 6 hours of instruction a day, up to 8 hours of additional studio time each day, and a choice of clay bodies. Access to the studio is from 8 am - 10 pm.

In the 2026, there are the following Pottery Intensives:

Accommodations are extra and are priced individually. You'll be sharing a cottage onsite (but up a big hill) with other participants. The house has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, two living room areas, a kitchen, and a dining room. You have a choice between a bedroom with a single bed (60€ a night) and a bedroom with a double bed (75€ a night). Bed linens and towels are included. The kitchen comes stocked with salt, pepper, oil, vinegar, coffee, tea, and sugar and all the tools you'll need to cook.

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Build your own Intensive: Cost per studio day: 180€, minimum 3 days. Lodgings (either onsite, or locally) and meals are booked separately.

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