Sept. 4- 5, 2010
Faenza – Italy
Launched only two years ago, Argillà has already become the largest International pottery festival in Italy. In a few weekends almost 200 selected ceramicists from Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Nederland, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia and other European countries will display their works in the historical district in Faenza.
A great chance for anyone to discover the world of pottery and pottery makers, to learn more about ceramics or just to have fun.
Until August 22, 2010
Faenza – Italy
Sept. 16 – Nov. 28
Rome – Italy
The exhibition celebrates “the whites”, 
a specific style of pottery that arose in Faenza in the 1540s.
Their innovative shapes, designs and glazes determined their immediate success; within a few years from their appearance on the market, they were already so popular that many potters started to make them, both in Italy and in other European countries.
Known as the “pottery from Faenza” or faentini, the whites became so famous that French people shortened their name to “faience”, that is now the French name for Majolica or Pottery.