Ceramic Workshops

Ceramic Workshops

Become an artist with these entertaining workshops

Our Pottery – Ceramic Workshops are designed for pupils, students (from schools and colleges), and adults (travel groups). The seminars deal with ceramics, sculpture, painting, and hagiography. The participants of these experiential ceramic seminars have the opportunity to travel back in time, learning about how and from where the ceramic arts started. With the help of the instructors, they can also create their own pottery items. You can combine it easily with your visit to the archaeological site of Mycenae, as it’s located in a short distance.

Highlights

· Live the experience of touching and giving form to real clay
· Take advantage of the passion of the clay artist and learn the techniques of creating your own cup
· Understand the word ‘kallos’ – real beauty in ancient Greek that existed in every detail of their daily life. From the pots they used to the greatest and most impressive statues in the temples

Why select this tour?

If you like art and pottery, or simply creativity, then this is an experience you should have!

History & Glossary

The pottery of ancient Greece from c. 1000 to c. 400 BCE provides not only some of the most distinctive vase shapes from antiquity but also some of the oldest and most diverse representations of the cultural beliefs and practices of the ancient Greeks. Further, pottery, with its durability (even when broken) and lack of appeal to treasure hunters, is one of the great archaeological survivors and is, therefore, an important tool for archaeologists and historians in determining the chronology of ancient Greece.

Whatever their artistic and historical value, though, the vast majority of Greek vases, despite now being dusty museum pieces, were actually meant for everyday use and, to paraphrase Arthur Lane, it is perhaps worth remembering that standing on a stone pavement and drenched with water, they would have once gleamed in the Mediterranean sun.

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Important Information

Price Includes

– Introduction of the art of clay from antiquity to the present day
– Clay workshop
– Surprise gift
– English-speaking guide-clay artist

** Prices may be changed depending on season & number of persons

Price Excludes

– Travel and medical insurance.

– Transportation

Useful Notes

Duration: 2 hours
Where: Mycenae-Peloponnese & other areas on request
Type of the tour: Private