In March 2023, ChromAz joined the Erasmus+ Project CRAFT during a workshop session to try out different methods of producing a copper green pigment (ramina) according to Piccolpasso's 16th-century historical treatise, The Three Books of the Potter's Art.

We repeated last year's partnership between the ChromAz project, the Department of Conservation and Restoration of FCT-NOVA, and the CraftHub project in which the 1st-year Master students painted a maiolica tile within the Ceramics Module of the Technical Art History course.

This workshop took place with the participation of DCR-FCT-NOVA at Festival FIC.A Oeiras (Science Festival). 

This workshop took place on the last day of the temporary exhibition "À Descoberta do Vidro: da Ciência à Arte", organised by the Centro de Ciência Viva do Alviela and VICARTE to celebrate the International Year of Glass 2022.

In addition to the activity of "restoring" a tile, we also explained how glazes and their colours are produced using the materials displayed in the exhibition.

In a partnership between the ChromAz project, the Department of Conservation and Restoration of FCT-NOVA, and the CraftHub project, this year's Ceramics Module of the Technical Art History course included the production of a maiolica tile painted with pigments prepared at VICARTE according to historical recipes.

We were invited by NUCORES - the student's association of the Department of Conservation and Restoration of FCT-NOVA, to give a workshop on the production of maiolica and cuerda-seca tiles. This workshop was part of the 2nd Congress on
Conservation and Restoration (CONCORES) organised by the students.

During the Open Day event at VICARTE, we held an activity for children to "restore" an azulejo.

As families arrived for the Christmas sale and glass blow demonstrations, we asked them if the children would like to restore a tile.

They had to assemble the "puzzle" of tile fragments and then paint the missing piece using the colours available to tile painters. We made it simple enough for children of all ages, and easy enough so that it wouldn't take them long to finish and they could proudly take home their work.

This workshop was conducted by Master students of the Department of Conservation and Restoration at FCT-NOVA in collaboration with the European Project CraftHub.

Our special thanks to students Joana Fontes and Margarida Gomes, who made this event a success! 

ChromAz was present once again with this activity for children during the ClubMath session with the Department of Conservation and Restoration at FCT-NOVA. This time we had the opportunity to talk with children between 6 and 12 years of age about the importance of the Portuguese tile heritage while they assembled and "restored" a tile.

ClubMath is an initiative created by the Department of Mathematics of FCT-NOVA and is destined for students from the 1st to the 12th school year.

This session was hosted by the DCR-FCT-NOVA Professors Susana Sá and Filomena Macedo, students Joana Fontes, Margarida Gomes, Cristiana Prada and Carolina Viana, and VICARTE's researcher Susana Coentro.