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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

 

13-19

JAN 2025

Ceramics for Beginners W/ Renato & Kerstin

Understanding the whole ceramics process, from the preparation of the clay to form giving, from glazing to tool making and firing, that’s what we propose

24-26

JAN 2025

Kiln building W/ Renato & Kerstin

Are you thinking about starting to make ceramics but don’t know where or how to fire your pieces? The lack of a kiln to fire ceramics is an obstacle difficult to overcome as it requires a large investment that most people are not ready to make. Fortunately, there are alternatives!

1-2

FEB 2025

SPOONCARVING FOR BEGINNERS W/ ANA GOMES & SÍLVIO SOARES

An introduction to the art and techniques of carving green wood and creating useful objects.

7-12

FEV 2025

WOODCARVING W/ KERSTIN & RENATO

Wood is a warm material, pleasant to work with, alive, and a direct connection to nature.
 

19-28

FEB 2025

WOODFIRING & SHINO GLAZES W/ ÁLVARO & BARRY
The course will focus on understanding the entire ceramic process, from developing a participant’s skill in the production of utilitarian pieces to glazing and wood firing in our Sasukenei - smokeless kiln.

14-23

MAY 2025

CERAMIC SOUND MASK W/ NÓMADA CERÁMICA

Immersive course on how to create a ceramic sound mask.

26-03

MAR/APR 2025

GREEN WOODWORKING COURSE
W/ Peter Lanyon

Learn all the basic techniques of working with green wood freely and building two stools by hand!

29-04

MAY/JUN 2025

CERAMICS & NATURE W/ LIDIA BOSEVSKI

An approach to ceramics through the five senses.
 

18 - 27

JUL 2025

Ceramics & Wood Firing
W/ Marc Lancet

Wood firing for the 21st-century ceramicist

16 - 25

SEP 2025

Ceramics & Overglazing
W/ Douglas Black

Infinite Skies - decorative techniques on black clay

20 - 26

NOV 2025

RAKU - FROM CLAY TO FIRE W/ TIM ANDREWS

Tim Andrews, one of the leading figures of Raku in the West, is coming to Cerdeira to share his profound knowledge of this exciting process!

3 - 12

DEC 2025

Ceramics - Rocks making Glazes w/ Matthew Blakely

Natural materials as a vehicle of an unique artistic expression.