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3.00 Credits
See Beata Niedziakowska for details
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3.00 Credits
Hand-building techniques such as coil, slab and press-molding are taught as students gain knowledge of materials, glazing, and firing. Students begin working with earthenware clay and later explore raku. Sculptural and functional issues are explored through various assignments and students gain knowledge and insight into issues of contemporary ceramics. Elective: 3 credits/semester; 6 hours/week. No prerequisite. May be taken by both beginning and more advanced students.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will be given the opportunity to evolve concepts which lend themselves to working with clay in nontraditional formats. Students might choose to use clay along with other materials or to use ceramic materials in innovative ways. Students will investigate how materials inform and define concepts and how materials and process are used to carry meanings and history as well as practice. Students will also be asked to understand how concepts can sometimes be more successfully realized through the use of clay along with multiple materials and will study the work of contemporary ceramic artists who explore the expressive possibilities of mixed materials. Through a series of exercises and playful risk-taking, students will develop additional vocabularies of process and material which will assist in visualizing their ideas. Elective: 3 credits/ semester; 6 hours/week. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
Wheel throwing is the primary means of making ceramic forms in this course. Basic and advanced throwing skills, material concepts, glazing and firing are covered. Reduction firing concepts are introduced as the students construct functional and nonfunctional forms in clay. Students also gain familiarity with artists who currently use wheel processes to explore contemporary issues and design. Elective: 3 credits/semester; 6 hours/week. No prerequisite. May be taken by both beginning and more advanced students.
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3.00 Credits
In this ceramics course, students will use a specific topic- tableware-toresearch, design, and create a minimum of 10 place settings and accompanying pieces. Techniques can be selected from any combination of handbuilding, throwing, slip-casting or press-molding. During the first part of the course, students will explore the visual dynamics of sets. Arrangements and relationships of forms derived for specific functions will be studied and glaze choices and decorating options will be considered and tested. Students will also research a variety of artists that make dishes. After these initial investigations, students will carefully choose an appropriate clay body, technique, and glaze surface to design and create their10 place settings. Each setting will include a dinner plate, luncheon plate, dessert plate, soup/salad bowl, tumbler, mug or cup and saucer, and will also create an accompanying group of dishes selected from the following: serving bowls of various sizes, large serving platter, cream and sugar set, salt and pepper set, large pitcher, small pitcher, teapot. Elective: 3 credits/ semester; 6 hours/week. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
This course fosters the development of a personal sense of direction with a combination of assignments and individual choice. As a result, students increase vocabularies of skill and concept. Students also learn to relate their work to historical and contemporary issues. Additionally, students learn the operation of a variety of kilns and explore advanced issues in mold making and slip casting. A combination of group discussions and demonstrations, shared and individual crits, and one-on-one dialogue further augment the growth and maturation of studio work. Prerequisite: Ceramic Major
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to begin the process of understanding the nature of ceramic materials and to familiarize students with basic understandings of various firing processes. Assignments and lectures emphasize the theory and practice of formulating clay bodies and glazes with the goal of having students develop a vocabulary of materiality and process for use in their studio work. No prerequisites - open to all students
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3.00 Credits
The class begins by examining the importance of ceramics in everyday life throughout human history. Emphasis is on the wide spectrum of objects created, including pottery, ritualistic vessels, architectural decoration, and figurative clay sculpture. Students study the methods, forms and uses of ceramics within Asian, Islamic, European, African and the Americans cultures. In understanding the role of ceramics within these cultures, students become familiar with the myths, religious underpinnings, mores, and philosophical viewpoints which are incorporated in the making of the objects. Once this foundation has been established, students learn how contemporary ceramic artists are inspired by their history. Lastly, students will bring this accumulated study back to their studio and incorporate it into a self-assignment that will reflect upon and respond to some aspect of ceramic history that they wish to include in their art. Prerequisites: Ceramics Major or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Students develop a mature body of work in preparation for the Senior Thesis Exhibition. Students are offered the necessary instruction and support needed to pursue in-depth explorations of ideas and processes of their own choosing. Demonstrations, readings, discussions, and critical reviews continue the conceptual, aesthetical and technical development of studio work. Upon the successful completion of the senior studio, students are ready to begin their professional careers. Prerequisite: Successful completion of CE 301-302
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces drawing from perception, including techniques for measurement, contour, massing, volume, and rendering illumination through tone. Compositional skills such as placement and figure/ground interaction are stressed. Diverse drawing materials are used; subject matter includes still life, interior, landscape, and the figure. Elective: 3 credits/ semester; 6 hours/week. No prerequisite.
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