Atelier&gallery Creava

“Atelier&gallery Creava” is located in Nagamachi of Kanazawa City, the central area of Ishikawa prefecture. It is a new wave of art culture of Kanazawa, combining a gallery, pottery workshop, shops, cafes, and space for workshop activities for visitor and locals all in one place.
The name of this place origins from ”Create＝Tsukuru (in Japanese), Clay＝Tsuchi (in Japanese), Va＝Ba (pronounced and meaning ‘spot’ in Japanese)”, representing the meaning of “the place where creativity is born”.
The pottery workshop has lessons such as “electric pottery wheel experience”, in which you can create an original dish as well as “Kutanyaki coloring experience”, which is a coloring method which layers pigments on a prepared plate. In the coloring experience workshop, you can choose from three pigment methods. “Kutaniyaki Gosai five coloring experience”, which layers the colors by using five colors including red, yellow, navy blue, blue and purple; “Akaikindami coloring experience” is layer colors by using red and gold pigment; and “Shimitsu coloring experience”, which layers color by using only using indigo blue in gradation, which can also be called as the “Gosu method”.
The store was renovated from a 100-year-old Japanese storehouse as a space for gallery, displaying various types of arts, sculptures and crafts. In the “Shop＆Gallery space” presents and sells art pieces from local artists. There is also a restaurant called “Kurage-ga-kumoninaruhi” which serves dishes created from the workshop. You can experience every amazing things of the Kanazawa art culture here.