Handbuilding Ceramics

Students practiced solid-formed geometric figures which will be donated to the drawing classes for observational drawing.

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Handbuilding is a semester-long elective course which lays the foundation for continued study in ceramics. Students will learn the stages of clay, pinch construction, coil-building, slab-building, and glazing techniques to make both functional and sculptural ceramic artworks.

Students learned how to create pinch pots and made a series of nesting bowls with patterned surface decoration.

Nesting Bowls, Deondra Green, 2023

Glaze test tile, 2023

Students created hollow-formed rattles constructed from 2 pinchpots, then sculpted with additions, impressions, and carving to resemble organic forms inspired by seed pods.