Arts and Crafts school
The Cerdeira Arts and Crafts School is a space for learning techniques that result from timeless lines and, simultaneously, a place
for creativity and art with a contemporary twist. We offer:
1 to 3 days workshops for beginners, and longer courses, 5-10 days, that allow greater technical advance and immerse yourself in creative work.
If you are a professional artist, our classes offer a rich environment dedicated to real skills, rooted in tradition, and a space for your creativity to grow.
Our teachers are Portuguese and foreign professional artists, specialists in their field who are happy to share their knowledge with those looking for our courses.
Ceramics
Cerdeira is specially dedicated to ceramics with a fully equipped workshop and one of the few smokeless wood-fired kilns in Europe.
Professional ceramicists visit Cerdeira throughout the year for workshops, events, and exhibitions.
Wood
Wood has been at the very heart of the life of Cerdeira from its beginning.
Our space lends itself to the teaching and practicing of traditional and contemporary woodworking.
Basketry
Fighting against oblivion, basketry courses teach one of the oldest crafts.
Cerdeira welcomes these knowledge where technique and material find the time and silence necessary for learning to happen.
Calendar
2
AUG 2025
Basket weaving with plant fibers is one of the oldest and most eco-friendly traditional crafts. Using native plants — like bulrush, rush, willow, or olive shoots — just a pair of scissors and our hands, we can create beautiful and useful baskets.
9
AUG 2025
The potter's wheel has lost none of its charm and fascination since it was invented about 3000 years ago. Working with it to produce small bowls is the challenge of this creative experience. You’ll learn to focus, center, and pull through the clay and yourself under our guidance.
10
AUG 2025
During this experience, you will have the chance to get in touch with an ancient form of art adapted to the present day! You will be able to feel up close what it's like to put your hands in the clay while taking an immersive journey between you and what will be your best friend throughout the day, the potter's wheel.
12 - 18
JAN 2026
The Ceramics for Beginners Course offers an intensive and embracing approach. Understanding the whole ceramics process, from the preparation of the clay to form giving, from glazing to tool making and firing, that’s what we propose.
3 - 13
FEB 2026
In the The Woodfiring & Shino glazes course—Making pots for the kitchen and table at Cerdeira—Home for Creativity will focus on understanding the entire ceramic process: from developing a participant’s skill in the production of utilitarian pieces to glazing and wood firing in our Sasukenei smokeless kiln.
