The Šiauliai Cultural Center is launching a series of free creative workshops for young people

The development of youth employment and creativity is becoming an increasingly important modern topic. The Šiauliai Cultural Center invites you to participate in the Pottery workshop "Molio forma", which is intended for young people between the ages of 14 and 29. The program includes creative activities that will not only introduce you to various ceramic techniques, but also allow you to express your original ideas. Workshops will be led by experienced artists and educators, who will help you deepen your knowledge of art and experiment with various techniques. The diversity of clay, glass, sculpture and other artistic methods will not only broaden your horizons, but hopefully help you discover a new passion or professional direction.
The organizer - Šiauliai Cultural Center. The project is partially financed by the Lithuanian Culture Council and Šiauliai City Municipality. Events are free.

The cycle of creative workshops, the educational activities of which will begin on October 19, is intended to ensure the continuity of cultural educational activities, will give participants a unique opportunity to delve into various creative technologies and will allow them to realize their artistic ideas. Professional artists and educators in their field will help the participants of the project to directly touch the creation of contemporary art.

Sculpture. Petras Rakštikas is a well-known painter and sculptor who will lead a clay sculpting workshop at the Šiauliai Cultural Center. In the creative classes, small plastic sculptures will be created and the principles of creating abstract art will be introduced. Participants will first prepare individual sketches, which will be used to mold sculptures-whistles.

Clay-angob. Irena and Vilius Šliuželiai are artists who will lead the clay modeling workshop. During the activity, participants will form small plastic sculptural objects from clay sheets, and decorate the works with special ceramic paints.

Clay-glaze. Aistė Jakelaitytė is a folk artist who will teach participants the basics of pottery ringing. The first part of the workshop will include idea generation, familiarization with materials, the history of glaze making, and the second part will cover practical artistic glazing of earthenware.

Clay-press. Kristina Mickūnė and Gintarė Katkuvienė - educators of the Šiauliai Cultural Center, will lead theoretical and practical classes. During the educational activities, participants will get to know the history of ceramics, create small plastic sculptures from white clay and transfer the compositions onto their molded products using underglaze paper.

Clay-glass. Education participants, together with the Šiauliai Cultural Center educators Kristina Mickūne and Gintare Katkuviene, will get to know the interaction of clay and glass, where the change of glass properties at high temperature will be discussed, and in the practical part, decorative plates will be created by modeling the relief with glass granules.

Registration for classes:https://www.siauliukc.lt/events/

The number of places is limited. More information: +370 678 53 171, e-mail vaida.dambrauskiene@siauliukc.lt