Ceramic Materials Workshop
Ceramic Materials Workshop is a place where ceramicists at all levels can learn online about clay and glazes.
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Courses
Explore Our Different Ceramics Courses
All of our courses feature an in-depth study of glazes and clay bodies with optional hands-on lab experiment testing and live discussions with the instructor and other students.
Understanding Glazes
Introduction to Clay Bodies
Advancing Glazes
Crystal Ball
ABOUT US
Learn. Understand. Make.
Ceramic Materials Workshop is a place online to understand and explore how and why our Clay and Glazes work (and don’t work). Our materials speak for us in the home and gallery. It benefits us to learn about how to speak through our materials. Mastering the skills of clay and glaze performance helps every ceramicist, become their best self in the studio.
Ceramicists at all levels can now learn how Clay and Glazes function with us online.
Workshops
Learn on your own schedule with our self-paced workshops.
Glaze of Our Lives
Answer all those questions you had since you started ceramics and more.
The Middle Glazes
Learn the answers to the mysteries of mid-temperature glazes.
Glazed and Confused
Learn how the Unity Molecular Formula and Stull’s Map can make your studio better.
Workshop Bundle
Includes all 3 CMW Workshops – Glaze of Our Lives, The Middle Glazes, Glazed and Confused – for a great price.
Announcements
Check Out the Latest From CMW
New Digital Glaze Book!
Test, Test, Test! 7500 Glaze Tests From Ceramic Materials Workshop is our new glaze book contains over 7,500 glaze tests for 15 base glazes and includes recipes and images for all of them!
New Course Option! Self Guided Understanding Glazes
Includes Understanding Glazes on demand lectures + hands on learning lab + lifetime access to new digital glaze book with over 7,500 glaze tests
For Flux Sake Episode 53- Cone 6 or Bust! Listen in for a special promo code for 25% off our Glaze of Our Lives workshop!
Who We Are
Meet Your Instructors, Rose and Matt
Rose and Matt Katz will be your guides on your CMW journey. With over 40 years of combined glaze and clay experience, they have created an online learning experience for all levels of students.
Testimonials
What Our Students Are Saying
You don’t have to take our word for it…
★★★★★
“You both have totally changed my ceramics, I am having the best year ever! Best thing I have done in my career was to take your courses.”
~ Ellen M. – Advancing Glazes Student
★★★★★
“I cannot say enough in regards to how amazing this is.”
~ Owen Dearing – mugrevolution.com
★★★★★
“I am listening to your lecture in the car through traffic and it’s a different experience now that I understand what you are talking about and actually experienced it myself.”
~ Shay C. – Student
★★★★★
“One of the most important step I took in my ceramicist life is to follow 2 workshops from @ceramicmaterialsworkshop and learn about what really a glaze is.
I have been working on it since October 2022 and it has been so amazingly interesting, challenging, beautiful, rewarding and exciting.
I am of course only at the beginning of an endless research, but I feel confident about what we can offer in the studio, to the people who order from us and I can wake up one morning, have an idea of a glaze and make it…
It is the best thing I have invested in and I am thanking a million time @studioluma_ceramics
who introduced me to that course and who sadly and tragically passed away last year in the middle of her own glaze research. She is deeply missed.
Thank you also to Matt and Rose for the life changing opportunity with your wonderful workshops @ceramicmaterialsworkshop
It’s just the beginning 🥰” ~Seline – CMW Student
★★★★★
“Thomas here, in France. I just finished your Glaze 1 and 2 lecture only courses and just wanted to drop you a message to thank you for your amazing work….7 years ago, I stopped working as a software engineer and started my ceramic journey….I was also really surprised by the amount of myths in the ceramic field.
I was always feeling like there was some magic happening in the kiln and my scientific background was not really happy about that. That’s why I decided to take your online lecture only classes. I wanted to have a more scientific approach on all that. I just wanted to tell you how happy I am that I followed these lectures. I feel like I have a really better understanding of what’s going on in the kiln now.
Thanks a lot for sharing all those elements, in a clear and entertaining way. I really liked that.”
Thomas L.- @doller.ceramics
2023 Understanding, Advancing and Intro to Clay Bodies Student
