let’s create a collaborative mural! summer ceramics workshop with Maria Roy

This summer, we’ll gather once again at the Escocesa ceramics workshop to create a collaborative mural. Over the course of four days, we’ll use clay as a medium to observe, interpret, and capture the surroundings of the center.

We’ll learn how to make tiles from sheets of clay, as well as how to create glazes and decorations using earth and materials collected from nearby construction sites.

The camp is designed as a collective creation, focused on making a joint piece that will be installed outside La Escocesa. Each participant will also be able to take home one or two tiles as a souvenir.

program

Tuesday, June 30 from 17:30h to 20h
Introduction to the workshop. We will take a walk around the Escocesa to collect materials and observe the surroundings. From this, we will draw ideas, shapes, and textures that will help us build the narrative of the mural.
Wednesday, July 1 from 17:30h to 20h
Working with the materials: we will prepare the clay slabs and materials, which we will then use to glaze and decorate the tiles.

Thursday, July 2  from 17:30h to 20h
Using the prepared slabs, we will cut out the tiles and work on shaping forms and textures.

Friday, July 3 from 17:30h to 20h
Final decoration of the tiles with glazes made from clays and other materials collected during the process.

bios

Maria Roy is an artist and ceramist who works with both traditional and experimental craft techniques to explore, understand, and assimilate the world around her. Her main area of study is earth, understood as a living material that narrates the history, politics, and ecology of its environment. Her works translate the very materiality offered by the soil, creating sculptures that reflect the local geographies in which they are developed.

Investigating ceramics as an archaeological medium, Maria aims to recover narratives that connect us to our environment through objects and their materialities. With a practice rooted in pedagogy, Maria regularly teaches ceramics workshops, teaching, learning, and collaborating with local communities to explore their connection to the land.

If you have any needs or questions regarding the accessibility of this activity, please visit our page on “access to La Escocesa” by clicking here.