The industrial park of the Campos dos Goytacazes is formed for more than one hundred ceramics, absorbing, by mean information of the proper segment, about 5000 employees. This type of work in a general way uses capable person to support heavy services excluding: women, deficient and old person. The Project Caminhos de Barro implanted for the State University of Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), in 2000, has as purpose to enable, in the ceramic art, these excluded communities of the ceramic industrial process. The present work has as objective to contribute for an improvement in the adopted technology, for the first generation of artisans formed in the Workshop Caminhos de Barro, adjusting the raw material used to the new activity through mapping, classification and characterization the materials of region in nature and its behavior after the burning. The same analysis technique used for characterization and adequacy of the products industrialized for the ceramic industries also revealed adequate for the workmanship. The raw material studied, in the begin, presented the necessary qualities to the artisan work as it can be observed by the gotten products leading to a lesser loss. However the creation of a standard more adjusted of raw material to be used in the ceramic art of the Baixada Campista will demand, therefore, more time, resources and study, therefore the desired properties of each device such as: color, permeability and finishing can be associates the small physical and mineralogical variations.
workmanship; clay
