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

5 Reasons why you should make your own glazes!

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.

Making Glazes, Make Sense

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.

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Glaze of Our Lives

Answer all those questions you had since you started ceramics and more.

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The Middle Glazes

Learn the answers to the mysteries of mid-temperature glazes.

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Glazed and Confused

Learn how the Unity Molecular Formula and Stull’s Map can make your studio better.

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Workshop Bundle

Includes all 3 CMW Workshops – Glaze of Our Lives, The Middle Glazes, Glazed and Confused – for a great price.

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Announcements

Check Out the Latest From CMW

Rose on The Red Clay Rambler!

Rose was recently a guest on The Red Clay Rambler podcast! Listen to Rose ask shares her ceramic journey. Did you know that she trained as a studio potter before working in industrial ceramics ? Stream this episode in your browser.

NEW COURSE: Making Glazes, Make Sense: The Ultimate Glaze Chemistry Guide

Unlock the mysteries of ceramic glazes with Making Glazes, Make Sense: The Ultimate Glaze Chemistry Guide, our most comprehensive glaze course to date! This isn’t just another glaze class; it’s the definitive guide to mastering glaze chemistry, designed for all levels of students – beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners are all welcome.

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Ceramic Employee Development Program

Mold your future with our Ceramic Employee Development Program! Designed to hone you and your studios skills, expand knowledge, and empower your growth within yourself and your team, this program is your next step toward a successful and rewarding career in ceramics.

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In Person Workshop(s)

Learn about CMW’s upcoming in-person workshops happening across the globe in 2025!

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NEW CMW Memberships!

Learn about our new pay as you go membership option. Join for immediate unlimited access as long as you want or need!

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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.

Meet Our Team

Our Ceramic Consulting Services

Testimonials

What Our Students Are Saying

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★★★★★

“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 just started the Clay Body course online and I’m already loving it and very grateful for you offering it. It’s really difficult as you mention to wade through the books available on this subject, and I love how fast and direct that you teach.”

~ Joseph D. @studio.3.p

★★★★★

“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. – @shay.c4

★★★★★

“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

★★★★★

“Thank you Matt & Rose for creating such an outstanding resource. It is incredible the passion you show for imparting and sharing your knowledge and I’m so grateful for all your time, energy and knowledge.

I’m excited to continue to experiment and develop my ceramic practice putting into the practice the testing methods. I’ve still so much to learn but I have a foundation that will serve me well.

It really is hard to put into words how much you impact my learning. THANK YOU.

We call teachers “Kaiako” in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Kaiako has a broader meaning than just to teach. A Kaiako is someone who is passionate about investing in the next generation. A steward of knowledge, imparter of wisdom, nurturer of potential, facilitator of growth. Confidence builder. Mentor.

Thank you for being my Kaiako, I appreciate you.” Jan 2024

Meg R. @megrouslton – CMW Student

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