Calm with depth
Ceramic time is not framed as a problem to fix, but as part of what makes the practice richer and more transformative.
About
A ceramics school built on warmth and presence.
Technical teaching and a welcoming studio for intentional making.
MUD began during the 2020 pandemic when people started asking for classes. The demand revealed more than curiosity—it pointed to a real need for creativity and reconnection.
That is how the studio was born: not only as a place to learn technique, but as a space for presence, study, and exchange.
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Why MUD
Because Leblon offers both convenience and neighborhood life for an ongoing creative practice.
Because the pedagogy respects each student’s level, pace, and interests.
Because the school works naturally for locals, families, expats, and curious visitors.
Studio values
Learning ceramics at MUD also means learning to wait: dry, fire, observe, and return to the piece.
Philosophy
Studio values
MUD sees ceramics as art, craft, and investigation. The studio values exchange, listening, and autonomy, welcoming beginners with warmth and attention.
Technique with freedom
Strong foundations are there to open personal paths, not to make everyone create the same way.
Human growth
Even as the school grows, MUD wants to preserve personal care, affection, and the feeling of a living atelier.
Exhibitions
The studio’s production also meets the public through annual exhibitions.
MUD’s exhibitions extend the studio journey beyond the classroom and create a meeting point between research, authorship, and city life.
They gather processes developed throughout the year and show how technical learning becomes personal language and public presence.
MUD Exhibition 20252025
Quando o vazio sustenta a forma
A group show centered on relationships between emptiness, structure, and material presence within the work developed at the studio.
Annual exhibition
MUD Escola de Cerâmica · Leblon, Rio de Janeiro
MUD Exhibition 20242024
As Américas
An edition bringing together works around crossings, territories, and shared repertoires between matter, memory, and displacement.
Annual exhibition
MUD Escola de Cerâmica · Leblon, Rio de Janeiro
MUD Exhibition 20232023
YBY - Nossa Terra
A show focused on the relationship with earth as origin, support, and material imagination within the studio’s research.
Annual exhibition
MUD Escola de Cerâmica · Leblon, Rio de Janeiro
MUD Exhibition 20222022
O Possível
The first exhibition in this sequence, affirming experimentation and authorship as central parts of MUD’s pedagogy.
Annual exhibition
MUD Escola de Cerâmica · Leblon, Rio de Janeiro
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