Ceramics and Porcelain Art Studio launched

October 24, 2013

On the third Day of Style.Uz Art Week 2013, hundreds of people flocked to the opening ceremony of a Ceramics and Porcelain Art Studio set up by IJOD Association of Artists, Art Critics and Craftsmen. The studio will work toward preservation and revival of various types of Uzbek traditional art.
The establishment of the Ceramics and Porcelain Art Studio has been made possible thanks to a grant made available by Guli brand as a tribute to late prominent porcelain artist and sculptor Shakhnoza Muminova (1949-2011), who made a massive contribution to the development of art in Uzbekistan.

The idea of creating the studio was floated in 2012 at the closing ceremony of Bazar Art Fair, a project overseen by Fund Forum that is dedicated to preservation and revival of various types of Uzbek traditional art.
Grants provided as part of Bazar Art Fair, overseen by Fund Forum, are aimed at further developing of applied art and revival of disappearing types of Uzbek art. Twenty-five million soums worth of grants have been provided since 2007. Among the grantees are Yodgorlik silk mill in Marghilan; jeweler Lola Sadykova (Tashkent); ceramist Abduvahid Karimov (Bukhara); painter and woodcarver Ortiq Faizullayev (Tashkent Region) among others.

The grant from GULI enabled the studio to purchase a ceramics oven on which its creative activities hinge. Moreover, the visitors to the presentation could view works by famous craftsmen as well as vases based on Gulnara Karimova’s sketches. These vases will go under the hammer at an auction for the benefit of breast cancer patients to be held as part of the upcoming benefit gala dinner.