Alberto Bustos Workshop

“Filaments and Textures”

October 17-19, 2025 - Call 647 667 2259 for Pricing and Availability

(potential overflow dates: October 10-12, October 6-8)

Alberto Bustos - Artistic Statement:

Self-taught as I am, I never dreamt that my passion and admiration for Ceramics 
would turn into my way of life and would provide me with such meaning.

It may well be that my inborn attraction to Nature pushed me down to the ground ... to become fused with earth, our true essence. 

Through “natuRareza” I submerge myself into the vegetal Psyche to connect with its tortured feelings (a direct result of the deterioration of the environment that we humans habitually cause).  My hope with my models is to connect deeply with viewers, to inspire us all to revert the harm we are inflicting on ourselves.

The main objective of the workshop is to model the clay directly with our hands, without tools. In this way we will commune immediately with the clay and directly transmit our feelings.  We will discover how all these techniques can be applied not only to sculptures but also adapt them to the functional ceramic style.  With the technique of "launch" we will make:

• textured slabs
• flat and rectangular filaments
• Creation of stone textures using pigmented cookies

Through the application of coloring pigments, glaze, powder and liquid directly onto wet clay we are able to create works with only one firing. 
 

In this workshop we will have absolute improvisational freedom - without obsessing on technique - to tell stories of hope through our artistic pieces. 

Schedule program:

(9:30 to 4:30 / 40 minutes lunch) 

1st day: 
Video presentation. Trajectory. Technical issues. Questions. 
Construction of plates without mechanical means. Throwing technique. 
Application of coloring stains mixed with transparent matt powder glaze with a 
strainer and a brush to generate a double texture. 
Realization of several pieces applying the previous processes. 
Explanation of the modeling of square filaments by the throwing technique. 
Application of coloring stains with transparent glaze in liquid with a toothbrush on 
raw clay. 
Stoneware powder texture technique. 
Loading the kiln with the pieces made for drying. 

2nd day: 
Presentation of photos on powder cracking techniques and stone textures. 
Explanation of stony texture with pieces of pigmented cookies. 
Discussion on the use of other organic materials in said texture; macaroni, sugar 
cubes, etc. 
Construction of a cube using the technique of plates from the previous day and the 
texture of cookies. Assembly by pressure and striking using two pieces of wood. 
Explanation of the modeling of flat filaments by the throwing technique. 
Application of coloring stains with transparent glaze in liquid with a toothbrush on 
raw clay, along with powder on wood. 
Assembly of filaments on the pieces previously made. 
Firing. 

3rd day: 
Presentation of photos on rectangular filament techniques. 
Explanation of the modeling of rectangular and flat filaments with the throwing 
technique. 
We will use a wooden cylinder to build different sculptural or functional pieces. 
We will apply the coloring stains mixed with transparent matt powder glaze on 
wood. 
Possible variations of the construction technique with multiple cylinders and/or 
quadrangular wooden slats. 
Opening of the kiln and discussion about the results obtained. 

Number of participants will be 15 people maximum. 

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