Ceramic Studio Prague

Dates:

• 01.07.-14.07.2008. (weekends are free for Prague + excursions to castles & chateaus + museums + galleries)
• 15.07.-28.07.2008. (weekends are free)
• 05.08.-18.08.2008. (weekends are free)
• 19.08.-01.09.2008. (weekends are free)

Time: Monday to Friday (10.00 – 14.30)
Duration: 2 weeks
Price: 395 EUR per person

All materials and firing costs are included!! Book it now!

Summer school learn about throwing, glazing, garden ceramic, modelling, through short lectures combined with practical work. This summer school is open to students of all levels of expertise and it will introduce you to ceramic art. Students will have the opportunity by professor Ivan A. Panov during the course, to work at all aspects of ceramic.

Ivan A.Panov (1972) is graduated of the Special School of Art - Ceramic in Trojan, where he learnt about pottery and ceramic art. He continues to combined ceramic design with fine art in Czech Republic. He made big projects (like reliefs, panels, fontains) on order and this works are in UAE, Czech Republic, Danmark, Norway, Austria, Italy, USA etc. He is teaching in his own Studio in Prague a lot of students from different part of the world.

Our pottery programme covers all the basic making techniques and gives students the opportunity to work with a full palette of clays. It includes courses for complete beginners as well as workshops for experienced potters. Surface decoration is emphasised in our new courses, which introduce a whole range of new techniques. Colourful tile making in deep relief and large-scale decorative-usefull ceramics are offered here for the first time.

Pottery creation day

• This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
• Total cost: 45 EUR per person Tea/Coffee and biscuits included.
• Duration: 1 day course

• This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
• Total cost: 195 EUR per person - including use of equipment and materials, 2 nights half-board accommodation, transportation during the course, pick up and drop off from airport/bus-railway station and Guided walk through Prague with our professional guide.
• Duration: 2 days course.

• This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate, advanced.
• Total cost: 650 EUR per person - including use of equipment and materials, 7 nights half-board accommodation, transportation during the course, pick up and drop off from airport/bus-railway station, guided walk through Prague with our professional guide, excursion to Konopiste chateau with entrance ticket, guide and transport.
• Duration: 7 days course

Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic. It covers a total area of 496 square kilometres with 1 187 000 inhabitants. The historical centre with a unique panorama of the Prague Castle is an urban conservation area of UNESCO.

Prague is situated in the heart of Europe, on a place that has been an interection of continental merchant routes since time immemorial. It was the seat of Czech princes and kings from the tenth century A.D. In the middle of the 14th.century, Prague was the centre of the Holy Roman Empire and Europe´s third largest city in terms of population. As part of the Hapsburg monarchy, Prague remained the capital of Czech lands, which became the strongest part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in terms of economy during the 19th century.