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Dec 12, 2024
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ART 1110 - Ceramics I
Credits: 3
This introductory-level course introduces students to the basic skills and conceptual ideas within ceramics. Students explore basic hand-building techniques using ceramic materials to make sculpture and vessels. Emphasis is placed on individual style and how clay can be used as a vehicle for expression. Students make work from low-fire clay using a combination of coil, slab, and texturing techniques, surface slips, and glazes. An introduction to ideas about sculpture, the vessel, and the Raku process are presented through slide lectures and research assignments. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be well-versed in hand-building techniques, basic glaze formulation, and firing of electric and Raku kilns. Students will learn to develop strategies to translate an idea into sculptural form.
Prerequisites: FD 2130 - 3D Design: Space + Materiality
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Students will demonstrate skills in hand building techniques through a series of projects with in-process and final critiques.
- Students will demonstrate increased knowledge of firing the electric kilns and raku kiln through regular loading and firing of the kilns.
- Students will become proficient in making colored slips and glazes through two projects.
- Students will demonstrate an increased knowledge of making sculptures with clay through critiques of projects, image presentations, field trips, and research assignments.
- Students will become more aware of issues in the contemporary art/ceramics world and of their own process through the completion of a series of projects, keeping an extensive research notebook, being exposed to exhibitions on- and off-campus, seeing image presentations given by students and the professor.
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