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Ceramics 2024 - 2025
Supplies:
Students may purchase a sketchbook (optional)
Course Description
This is an introductory, hands on studio class for students who wish to work with clay and explore the art of ceramics. We will focus on the physical properties of clay and the fundamental methods of working, including hand building (coil, slab, press mold, and extruded) and basic wheel throwing (creating pots on the potter’s wheel). We will create functional as well as sculptural projects and learn how to finish pieces with various types of surface treatments and glazing techniques. We will also examine the historical roots of clay and the connection of ceramics to various cultures. Students will create work that involves their own personal interpretations and creative solutions to assignments.
Vision of the Graduate
Knowing:
Demonstrate proficiency in academic subject areas
Identify problems, explore resolutions and design solutions
Construct innovative and creative ideas and products
Doing:
Respond to failures and successes with reflection and resilience
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course students will be expected to:
Demonstrate and apply the basic skills, concepts, and vocabulary related to ceramics, specifically in handbuilding and wheel throwing.
Compare the effects of media and their associated tools, techniques and processes, and apply this knowledge to their ceramic work.
Address design elements and principles relative to their work and the work of other ceramic artists.
Understand and engage in the process of creative problem solving, developing multiple ideas for creative clay projects.
Create a body of original work which demonstrates knowledge of visual art concepts while communicating ideas, feelings, and/or meaning.
Prepare their work for exhibition through school and community displays and an online portfolio.
Make connections between ceramic arts and other disciplines, particularly history and science, and literature.
Research and explain how the ceramic arts (and artists) reflect their time and culture, and apply this knowledge to their own work.
Demonstrate safe and appropriate practices in a ceramic studio setting
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