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The Amazonian Quichua ceramic tradition is among the most beautiful in the Americas (along with the Shipibo pottery of the Peruvian Amazon and Pueblo pottery of New Mexico, and others). Each year the field school invites some of the best know Quichua artists to conduct a two week ceramic workshop. Field School participants can learn to make traditional ceramic bowls called mucaguas. In the process they study the religious and cultural context of the ceramic tradition. They also study natural dies and glazes and learn the meaning of many symbols used in Amazonian ceramic. In accordance with tradition, each student paints their mucaguas with traditional patterns using a brush made of their own hair.

Instructors:

Estela Dagua- widely respected Canelos Quichua artist who has exhibited her work in the best Quito galleries as well as in the United States and Europe.
Clara Santi
Fanny Gualinga
Rosa Gualinga

Students learn

To carry out research on Amazonian aesthetics in comparative context
To understand the meaning of Amazonian designs.
To understand the mythic and ceremonial context of Amazonian ceramic art
To make Amazonian style ceramic vessels.
To make and use traditional dyes, glazes, and materials

Archive of Amazonina Ceramic Art