Artistic Ceramics
1Introduction
The social cooperative "Nesis - Nisida Friend’s" is a non-profit organization, born in Naples on 12 November 2015 with the aim of improving the economic, social and educational conditions of young people in a state of difficulty.
Nesis was created to support young people from the Nisida Juvenile Penalty Institute but, at the same time, welcome today an increasing number of young people in distress, helping them to become protagonists of their present and architects for their future.
The Cooperative aim to offer help to particularly disadvantaged young people, in particular, is engaged in the labour insertion of detained persons, as young prisoners and former prisoners. In fact, from the beginning, prisoners or disadvantaged people were hired in the Cooperative and, currently, two young prisoners, who are part of the Cooperative's workforce, have been hired with a regular contract.
All the Nesis activity working is inside the Penal Institute for Minors of Nisida, operating in a double way: every morning, with ceramic training courses held at the detention facility for youngers and, every afternoon, in the ceramic laboratory of the penitentiary, the young inmates (regularly hired by Nesis) collaborate in manufactoring the artifacts - signed with the brand “Nciarmato in Nisida” – sold for the sustenance of the Cooperative itself.
DESCRIPTION AND LIST OF PRODUCTS / ARTISANAL PRODUCTS
The artifacts produced by the Cooperative are in glazed and hand-painted ceramic.
The artifacts are various and including:
- Tozzetti Naples;
- Tozzetti Vesuvio “Pazzi”;
- Card holders;
- Pen holders;
- Saint Gennaro Statues.