Japan ART – Faculty-Led Program Winter 2021

Workshop Descriptions

Tea Ceremony Workshop in Kyoto

Started more than 1000 years ago as medicine which brought by the priest and nobleman in

Japan to the one of the world most famous cultural practice, Tea Ceremony (sadō or chadō)

is the combination of harmony, hospitality, appreciation, senses, respects, and the orders of

Japanese Culture.

Instructed by Tea Master in traditional Kimono in Kyoto where the Tea Ceremony was

born and remains its spiritual heart. Tea Ceremony is a life changing experience to have

students feel and study through the process of entering the tea house, greeting guests,

enjoying tea cup art to pouring and whisking tea powder. All need to be done through your

six senses with the highest level of concentration.

Ceramic Art Workshop in Kyoto

Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including

artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the

plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. While some ceramics are considered fine

art, as pottery or sculpture, most are considered to be decorative, industrial or applied art

objects. Ceramics may also be considered artefacts in archaeology. Ceramic art can be

made by one person or by a group of people. In a pottery or ceramic factory, a group of

people design, manufacture and decorate the art ware.

Enjoy making ceramic art during insightful pottery workshops in Kyoto. Expand your

knowledge about Japanese ceramics, deemed to be one of the oldest art forms in Japan.

This workshop makes use of a potter’s wheel and local Kyoto clay that will ultimately

produce a porcelain item you can bring home to family and friends.

Kintsugi Workshop in Kyoto

Kintsugi, which translates to Golden Joinery, is the 400-year-old Japanese art of fixing

cracked potteries and ceramics with gold-dusted lacquer. Considered to be a metaphor for

brokenness, healing, and rebirth, this ancient art form celebrates flaws and imperfections

and ultimately turn them into something beautiful.

You learn about Kintsugi and make simple repairs on one chipped pottery item and know

how to smooth out the broken area and carefully apply the golden powder and lacquer on it.

Woodblock Print Workshop in Kyoto

Woodblock printing (or block printing) is a technique for printing text, images or patterns

used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method

of printing on textiles and later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest

surviving examples from China date to before 220 AD. Woodblock printing existed

in Tang China during the 7th century AD and remained the most common East Asian

method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century. Ukiyo-

e is the best-known type of Japanesewoodblock art print. Most European uses of the

technique for printing images on paper are covered by the art term woodcut, except for

the block-books produced mainly in the 15th century in India.

An experience full of fun, print your own woodblock.

Provided by local provider, 4/29/2020