the peaceful atmosphere of the studio is reflected in every space

studio spaces are housed in renovated, traditional peasant farm buildings

Paul Soldner, David Binns and Maria Geszler, guest artists in 2004

known to ceramists worldwide, the studio entrance with sculptures by Michel Kuipers (NL)

Noborigama, one of our 6 wood firing kilns

US artist, Jim Leedy, packing the wood fired trolley kiln

The International Ceramics Studio (ICS)
is a ceramic art centre located eighty kilometres south of the Hungarian capital, Budapest.

The ICS was created in Kecskemét on the initiative of Hungarian artists who had felt culturally and ideologically isolated. It was the wish for freedom and the desire to work alongside international artists that led to the founding of the centre.

The mission of the studio is to promote the formal, aesthetic and technical development of ceramics and to help foster creative skills. The studio is open to all challenges of ceramic research, design and experiment. With this in mind the ICS offers modern facilities and kilns, ample studio space and technical support.

Since it's foundation in 1978, the ICS has been maintained by the local council of Bacs Kiskun County, which is famous for supporting culture.

Our facilities give artists an excellent opportunity to concentrate on their work in a creative and mutually supportive environment where new and imaginative ideas can be explored and realised.

The studio offers a residency program for artists who wish to work on their independently in the studios on their own projects. Parallel to this program we organise a thematic program which offers workshops, symposia, courses, talks and seminars.

After 10 years hosting the Master School of the Hungarian University of Arts and Crafts a new and exciting initiative is under way to create a university level, both graduate and post graduate, educational establishment with the University of West Hungary in Sopron. A new school based on 25 years of accumulated experience where, alongside professors, leading Hungarian artists and world famous teachers invited by the studio will teach while making their own art work. A special art complex is being created where - uniquely in the world - the invited masters, teachers and students will live, create and learn together in an atmosphere where art education, respect for the values of different cultures, tolerance and internationalism in the noble meaning of the word, will co-exist.

In 2001 the ICS became a non-profit foundation. It continues to be partially funded by the Town and County Councils.

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International Ceramics Studio
H-6000 Kecskemét, Kápolna u.11, Hungary
tel: +36 76 486 867
fax: +36 76 482223
email: icshu@hotmail.com
www.icshu.org

Contact Email:
icshu@hotmail.com - Steve Mattison (English, German, Italian, French, Spanish)
icshu@axelero.hu - Ha magyar nyelven kíván emailt küldeni, cimezze Kormos Emesének

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