Your Teacher

Mati Cini is Salemi Ceramic’s lead ceramicist. She lives between Barcelona and Salemi and has been a ceramicist and ceramics teacher for the past 10 years. A disciple of Jaime Romero, she has built several kilns in Spain before coming to Salemi, and has extensively researched natural glazes and ash glazes.

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Who is This Course Right For

Previous ceramics experience is preferred.

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This course is right for you if:

• You are interested in ash glazes and high firing glazes
• You’re interested in learning more about wood firing kilns
• You’ve always wanted to participate in a wood firing
• You’re a bit of a ceramics geek :)
• You don’t mind chopping wood, getting covered in soot, and staying up until late to fire the kiln - in fact, you like it

Discover the territory/ Discover Sicily

During this week, you won’t just get a ceramics course. We’ve also organised a program of activity so that you can connect with Sicilian culture, get to know beautiful Salemi and its rich history and territory. 

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You will:

• Eat breakfast like the locals do in our favourite local bars
• Enjoy meals in a variety of authentic, local Sicilian restaurants / home-restaurants
• Seasonal cultural excursions

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What's Included

• Ceramics classes and mentorship by Mati Cini
• All materials
• 6  small (12x12 cm) and 2 large (25cm height) bisqued pieces - optional
• Palermo Airport pick up (12-noon Sunday) or Palermo City Pick Up (11am Sunday). There is an additional charge for any pick ups at other times.
• Return Palermo Airport transfer and Palermo City drop off on Sunday, departing Salemi at 7am.
• 2 x Yoga classes and 2 x guided meditation sessions
• All meals and non-alcoholic beverages from Sunday dinner through to Sunday breakfast
• Glazing and firing a max of 3kg of pieces

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What's Not Included

• Accommodation
• Shipping costs of pieces that will be fired by the studio (it’s between 30€ and 70€ for 3 kg depending on the country)
• Additional cost for firing/glazing more than 3kg of pieces (it’s 20€/kg for each extra kg of clay)
• Alcoholic beverages

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Schedule of the week

(This may vary depending on factors such as good weather for firing)

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Sun - Arrival and Welcome

Mon - Presentation, preparing ash glazes

Tues - Glazing, loading the kiln, firing (well into the night)

Wed - Free morning + opening the kiln in the afternoon, analysis

Thur - Preparing more glazes, glazing

Fri - Loading the kiln + firing 

Sat - Free morning + open the kiln in the afternoon

Sun - Goodbyes