Join us at KCC’s AMI Arts Festival 2024 for a pottery workshop – a therapeutic and enriching experience that allows individuals to connect with their creativity with the help of natural elements. Learn how ceramics have gradually become a part of our modern lifestyle and use it as a medium of art practice and the different techniques that are used in it. 

Explore the diverse spectrum of possibilities and scopes for experiments with ceramic art – starting from home decor, artifacts, murals, sculptures, and ornaments to personalized utensils.    

What you’ll learn: 

Knowledge about clay  

Enhancing your pottery skills 

The calming and meditative practice of throwing pottery 

What you’ll cover:  

Clay wedging  

Pottery throwing   

Pinch technique   

While 2 people throw the pottery, others will continue with the other techniques, and vice versa. Individual throwing time limit is only 10-15 minutes.  

Trainer profile:  

Saikat Chakraborty holds a BFA from Government College of Art and Craft and an MFA from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati. He has worked as a ceramic art teacher at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and R.K Sarda Vidya Mandir, a part time ceramic, drawing/painting and visual art teacher at Lakshmipat Singhaniya Academy, and has had experience as a Durga Puja assistant and maker at Dum Dum Park Tarun Sangha Puja Committee. He has been awarded the All-India Bronze Medal for Ceramics (2018) by Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation, Mumbai; the Parci Brown Award (2016); the Sunil Das Cash Award (2015); and the Bimanesh Roy Choudhury Cash Award (2014) by GCAC, Kolkata.