Visual artist Katariina Guthwert will lead a workshop on October 30, 2025 from 9 am to 17 pm, which will focus on the use of wild clay as an art material and open up practical opportunities to explore and use local natural clay. The day will consist of a lecture and a practical workshop section:
Lecture 9–11 am, SAMK Art School campus auditorium
Wild clay as an art material: artist presentation, presentation of the wild clay project and examples of how local clay currently appears in the works of contemporary artists and why people want to embrace it. Finding wild clay, permit issues, processing and studying test pieces.
Workshop 12–17 pm, SAMK Art School campus sculpture project space and field trip
Instructions on collecting clay, plants and stones. Walking to the terrain site and digging for wild clay. Working with the dug clay. Workshop summary, group discussion and brainstorming on various follow-up possibilities based on the experiences of the workshop participants.
Register for the workshop by October 28th using this form. The address of the SAMK Art School campus is Paasikivenkatu 24, Kankaanpää. For more information about the workshop, please contact Laura Lilja, [email protected], tel. 050 473 1697.
Environmental art workshops in Kankaanpää
The city of Kankaanpää is a partner in the Art, Technology and Sustainable Tourism project (TTKM), which will implement a series of diverse workshops in Kankaanpää during the spring. The workshops, led by experts, will develop, among other things, new perspectives on environmental art and place-based art, the dimensions of the digitalization of art and culture, and the many aspects of intelligent intuition, spatial thinking and observation. The TTKM project is a joint ESF+ project of SAMK, LAB, Tampere University and Geoparks.
Photo: Luis Bustamante