Pottery Courses
2 - 12 Week 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 two to twelve weeks. The pottery retreats 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.
2 Week Retreat
These two weeks are divided equally between hand building and wheel-throwing. Get introduced to all three techniques of hand building and build a project using each technique. You will get a week to practice on the pottery wheel and understand the basics thoroughly. No prior knowledge is required and this pottery course is perfect for beginners.
Techniques we will cover
- Introduction to stoneware clay, wedging, pottery vocabulary
- Hand building techniques- pinch, coil, slab
- Intro to wheel- centering, coning, pulling, cutting
- Pulling and trimming cylinder shapes
Cost per person
Residential Course
4 Week Retreat
This pottery retreat will cover all the basic techniques and focus on specific tips and troubleshooting tricks to improve your skills in hand building as well as on the wheel. Refine your work and continue to build upon your construction methods to form functional or sculptural ceramic shapes. This pottery course will include an introduction to glaze class to understand basic glazing.
Techniques we will cover
- Everything mentioned in the 2 weeks course
- Basic surface decoration, tools and techniques
- Hand build shapes like mugs/tumblers, handles, bowls
- Create basic wheel forms– cylinders and bowls
- Introduction to glaze
Cost per person
Residential Course
8 Week Retreat
The ideal program length to give yourself a good grounding in pottery is eight weeks. Get introduced to advanced pottery techniques in both hand building and wheel throwing during this course. You will design your own concepts, both functional and conceptual and learn how to best execute them.
Techniques we will cover
- All techniques mentioned in the 4 weeks retreat
- Throwing larger amounts of clay, use advanced tools, textures
- Altering shapes- bottles, bowls, vases, narrow/wider shapes, trimming foot
- Glaze application and underglaze application
Cost per person
Residential Course
12 Week Retreat
This pottery course offers an in-depth exploration and understanding of ceramics for students to discover their own individual language in clay. The skills included in this course cover all the fundamentals in ceramics that extend into advanced techniques such as execution of conceptual design strategies and construction with mixed approach to form complex forms (sculpture or functional).
Techniques we will cover
- All techniques mentioned in the 8 weeks pottery retreat
- Build your own design, sectional break down of design, mix technique work
- Altering shapes- mugs, bowls, bottles, vases, lids/jars,
- Glaze making & application
- Loading, unloading pieces, basics to firing a gas kiln
Cost per person
Residential Course
Terms
- 18% GST is applicable
- The retreat is for people 18 years and above only
- The pricing above is applicable per person
- The program includes studio and material use, instruction, accommodation, and meals
- Payments for the retreats are made in full in advance
- Payment mode is via GooglePay or wire transfer
- 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