Escuela de Formación de Artesanos de Gelves
TELEPHONE:
ADDRESS:
C/ Profesor Antonio Medina, 6 – 41120 Gelves
SOCIAL NETWORKS
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DESCRIPTION OF THE CENTER
The Gelves Craft Training School belongs to the Andalusian Employment Service (SAE) Network of Training Centres, attached to the Department of Employment, Business and Self-Employment (Government of Andalusia).
The School began operating in the field of ceramics in 1993 and joined SAE in November 2015 as… part of its network of training schools for employment
Over time it has incorporated other specialist fields of training with the aim of revitalising and placing value on Andalusian craft heritage. The courses offered include the craft manufacture of ceramics and decorative wood carving.
The School’s aims are to:
– Train qualified professional craftspeople and help them enter the labour market
– Help currently active artisans to specialise and refresh their skills
– Research and experiment with new working methods contributing to the conservation of artistic heritage
– Disseminate artistic work and activities with the aim of fostering cultural exchanges with centres in other countries and regions
The School has two training venues in the town of Gelves (on the outskirts of Seville), devoted to instruction in ceramics and woodwork respectively. The ceramics centre offers training in pottery, modelling, moulds and case-moulds, ceramic painting and tile design. The woodwork centre offers training in wood carving, among other fields.
COURSES
The Centre offers the following courses linked to traditional building:
1. Courses linked the ceramic arts:
– Reproduction of moulds and craft ceramic objects (300 hours)
– Craft moulds and case-moulds for ceramics (620 hours)
– Painting on craft ceramic substrates (800 hours)
– Design of craft ceramic tiles (800… hours)
– Preparation and application of low- and high-temperature ceramic enamels (100 hours)
– Craft ceramic decoration by the cuerda seca painting technique (75 hours)
– Craft pottery (600 hours)
– Work with a potter’s wheel (440 hours)
– Experimental alternative firing techniques applied to ceramics (150 hours)
– Craft decoration of ceramic artefacts by the tercer fuego overglaze technique (75 hours)
– Craft ceramic decoration with human figures, religious images or portraits (170 hours)
– Design and manufacture of unique craft ceramic objects (800 hours)
Training pathway 1: Screen-printing on ceramics
– Direct image transfer techniques on ceramic surfaces: cuerda seca and bajo cubierta decoration (100 hours)
– Direct image transfer techniques on ceramic surfaces: sobre cubierta decoration (150 hours)
– Direct image transfer techniques on ceramic surfaces: four-colour decoration (200 hours)
– Direct image transfer techniques on ceramic surfaces: decals (100 hours)
Training pathway 2: Ceramic sculpting and modelling (90 hours)
– Graphic techniques applied to sketching work
– Making ornaments with ceramic paste
– Ceramic sculpture
– Model digitisation and 3D printing applied to ceramics
– Ceramic sculpture enamelling and finishing techniques
– Organisation of professional activity in a craft workshop
2. Courses linked to the art of woodworking
– Workshop on decorative wooden elements
