Pottery Courses
The Best Hands-On Pottery Courses for Learning and Experience.
1 - 8 Week Pottery Courses
This artist’s retreat in India is best suited to serious aspirants looking for personalized pottery courses and peaceful practice time.
Residential pottery courses at Aura are structured getaways for individuals who are at the beginner or intermediate level of ceramics. The courses range from one to twelve weeks. The pottery courses includes studio and material use, instruction, accommodation and meals.
Doing a residential pottery course at Aura Pottery means you get to spend time with like-minded people, explore your own creativity, get inspired by others, and all along experience and learn this art at our pottery school based in India.
Below is a curriculum of what to expect during your chosen pottery course:
| Course Curriculum | 1 week | 2 weeks | 4 weeks | 6 weeks | 8 weeks |
| Introduction to stoneware clay, wedging, pottery vocabulary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hand building techniques- pinch, coil, slab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Intro to wheel- centering, coning, pulling, cutting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pulling and trimming cylinder shapes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Basic surface decoration, tools and techniques | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Hand build shapes like mugs/tumblers, handles, bowls | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Create basic wheel forms– cylinders and bowls | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Throwing consitently and altering shapes. | Yes | yes | yes | ||
| Trimming on the wheel | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Advance surface decoration techniques | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Introduction to glaze | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Throwing larger amounts of clay, use advanced tools, textures | Yes | Yes | |||
| Altering shapes- bottles, bowls, vases, narrow/wider shapes,lidded pot and jars, trimming foot | Yes | Yes | |||
| Different Glaze application techniques | Yes | Yes | |||
| Loading, unloading pieces, basics to firing a gas kiln | yes | Yes | |||
| Build your own design, sectional break down of design, mix technique work | Yes | ||||
| hump throwing and sectional throwing | Yes | ||||
| Glaze making & application | Yes |
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Terms
- The pricing above is applicable per person
- Payments for the retreats are made in full in advance
- Bringing a friend along? Enjoy 10% off together!
- The Retreat Fee includes all meals, routine refreshments, mentorship, workshops, materials and other activities. Basically, everything – other than firing and shipping charges.
- Applicable GST: 18% (For Indian Citizens & Wire Payments in INR)
- Payment mode: Wire transfer or UPI
- At the end of the retreat, with the help of the instructor, students will identify the pieces that they would like to get fired. Firing charges are INR 100/ 100 grams. We need 3-4 weeks to fire the pieces. Once they are ready, they can be shipped to you with an additional delivery charge
- Student pieces are more susceptible to cracking during firing. The studio cannot be held responsible for any breakage that may occur.