"All About Moulds" with Gabriella Kuzsel
This is my second time on this wonderful course. Gabi is not only a highly-skilled technician and immensely talented artist, but also a professional and wonderfully supportive teacher. No matter what your level of knowledge is, Gabi is very articulate in her verbal instructions and drawings, always guiding you when required and never missing an opportunity to teach you yet another trick. The molds she makes are works of art in themself and a testament to her clever brain and ingenuity. As a person, Gabi is warm and friendly and has the patience of an angel. I recommend her course very highly, if you are considering ever using a plaster mould for your ceramic work - learning from Gabi truly is learning from THE BEST!
Johanna Storm-Rusu (UK)

Porcelain A to Z course and China Painting with Ilona Romule
Almost all of June I was in International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemét, Hungary. It's not the first time I come here and it's always a joy from the place, meetings and total immersion in work. This is an international studio, artists from different parts of the world come here. In our group there were artists from Ireland, Germany, Latvia, Australia, Iceland, Canada, England and all of us were united by the love of porcelain and the Ilona Romule course on plaster and China painting. Having worked in this profession for many years, you will always find useful points and nuances shared by great masters like Ilona. Porcelain is a material from which you learn all your life, that teaches you and you still know nothing) Enjoy small achievements and move on. Thank you Elona for this experience!
Ludmilla Krutikova (RUS)

Porcelain A to Z course with Ilona Romule
I really enjoyed the two weeks I spent with you. It was paradise for a ceramist. The master class leader, Ilone Romule, provided a lot of information, so follow me to see if I understood her correct. The ceramics studio has a wonderful atmosphere, everything is quiet and clean, there are different corners where you can sit alone and very good workshop spaces. I recommend my friends to come to you and hope to return again, possibly in a residency or symposium format.
Una Gura (LV)

I really enjoyed my time at ICS and am very grateful for your support in receiving the Culture Moves Grant. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do this longer residency at ICS. This was my 3rd time - 1 course and 2 residencies - and it’s starting to feel like a home away from home. I reckon I will be back again..if you’ll have me. It was wonderful to work with Klari and Jacob who helped me to realise the project successfully. Eniko took lots of process photos and videos of me which was super. Kitti, Erika and Anita were as friendly, helpful and supportive as ever. ICS has a pretty fabulous team!
Claude Jones (DE), Artist in Residence

Contrast with Crystals with Ricus Sebes
A fantastic course from an experienced master, Ricus Sebes. Solid introduction to glaze theory and then a hands on experience of what it means in practice for crystalline glazes with the group working to make more test tiles than you would ever be able to produce at home in the time scale. Then on to making- hand building and wheel based but using different clay and chamotte combinations in a nerikomi technique, loads of different mark and texture making or enhancing techniques and then a final firing with selected and modified glazes from the tests and yes, we all got crystals. Would recommend for anyone interested in these glazes and processes, but the real test will be when you are home in the studio applying and making the adjustments yourself, for your kiln and your set up. This course gives you the tools to figure it out and make your glazes work but not the magic formula. (It was also a lot of fun!)
Olivia Fero (HU)

A wonderful opportunity to have a chance to make and focus on my practice. The staff are all helpful and knowledgeable. There is a wealth of inspiring pots in and around the different buildings. Everyday was a pleasure and it culminated in a wood firing with the other residents that yielded some great results. If you’re thinking about going, don’t hesitate and take the opportunity if you can.
Hideki Arichi (UK), Winter Residency

Please accept my sincere and indebted thanks for the opportunity to go to ICS it was mind blowingly amazing - what a team you have there - what an incredible place. i felt like i was walking through history, so very humbled to inhabit one of those studios and work alongside such extraordinary artists. Thank you, thank you, thank you xx 
Dr. Natasha Mayo (UK)- Recipient of the Kecskemét-Aberystwyth Residency Award.

I just wanted to send holiday greetings from San Francisco, California. I have such wonderful memories from my residency last July. It was a highlight of my year, such a wonderful break from a busy teaching routine. I want to thank you again for all of your kindness during my stay at ICS.
Jeannie Ichimura (USA) - Artist in Residence

I would like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I had a wonderful time with you. It is an incredible place - where you can work so concentratedly and fulfilled. You all were so kind to me.
I also had an incredibly good teacher in Fergus Steward, who I admire immensely as a potter.
It did me a lot of good. I haven't experienced anything like that in a long time!
Alessandra - Saltglaze Tableware course

Excellent, professional and sooo inspiring!!!
I've had an amazing tíme at International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemét, Hungary, at one of the best ceramic workshops I've ever experienced!
I knew the plaster and different forms of molds are hiding great potential, but I was never expecting such a result.
Thank you Simon Zsolt József for great tíme, so many things to think about, and your wonderful energy and approach.
Katarína Tesař (SK) - Creative Mouldmaking course.

From the first moment we felt at home in the studio complex which feels like a village. The staff is kind and pleasant, took care of everything we needed. We got a large private studio equipped with shelves, tables and wheel. The studio was open for us all day so we could work as much and when we wanted. The continuous work in the studio in the relaxed atmosphere of ICS is a real pleasure and enables new discoveries and new creative directions that I am sure will stay with me and influence my work. Course participants and other local artists who came to work in their studios were there at the same time as us, so it was possible to meet ceramic artists from different parts of the world. We all meet in the evening in the kitchen, eat and talk together. We were fortunate to visit the amazing collection which contains real treasures.
Ayelet Zer (IL), Artist in residence.

Every master course I've taken at ICS has been a fantastic learning experience, and I am grateful to the entire team at the studio for making things run seamlessly. My most recent workshop, with Luca Tripaldi, exceeded all expectations. He is a gifted teacher. Thank you.
Lori, USA - course participant.

The international ceramics studio always provides good opportunities and a friendly environment to artists with its technical equipment and excellent team. As an academician and artist, this studio, which I have been to many times, has made great contributions to me in every aspect. A very special ceramics studio that I always miss.
Prof. Senem Aker, Turkey - course participant and former resident

I really enjoyed being in Kecskemét, all the staff have been so collaborative, kind and helpful, the ICS school is really a great ceramic center, it has been a pleasure to give my workshop there. I was impressed how well equipped it is and what high level of ceramic artists come there.
Luca Tripaldi, Italy - course tutor Porcelain Jewellery

"Thank you very much for organising a fantastic trip. We really appreciate all the care that went into making it comfortable and exciting and we think you did a great job of finding really comfortable hotels and showing us so much amazing Romanian and Transylvanian folk art, architecture and culture."
Ohio University Study Abroad

"At the ICS you receive so many visitors and meet so many people I wonder if you understand how special it is for many of us to come to this beautiful place and work with such wonderful people. For many of us our residencies mark a very important part of our practices and experience. Our months at the ICS have certainly been very significant." 
Debra Sloan, Canada - Resident Artist.