Advanced Placement 3D and Advanced Ceramics

Some research assignments:

For careers in ceramics, the following are questions you would want to consider:

A.

What do Ceramicists do?

Where might a ceramicist work?

What is a ballpark salary for a ceramicist?

What kind of education is needed to be a potter?

B.

1. What might you learn in a Bachelor’s of arts in Ceramics?

2. What are some popular career options?

C. Mea Rhee, contemporary artist, has some ideas about running an art business .

Mea Rhee writes about running her own pottery business.

1. List the tasks that Mea kept track of in order to calculate her hourly wage.

2. What expenses did she have that she subtracted?

3. What expenses did she have that she did not calculate?

4. What hourly wage did she come up with?

5. What do you think is the difference between retail and wholesale sales?

6. What things does Mea spend time on for sales besides actually making pots?

7. In thinking about a large arts festival as retail, which made more: retail or wholesale?

8. How does an open house compare to the festivals in terms of making money?

D.

1. What kinds of things does a ceramics engineer do?

2. What training is required to be a ceramics engineer?

3. What is an average beginning salary for a ceramics engineer?

4. What is the job outlook?

E.

1. What are some things you have to be ready for in order be be a ceramicist?

2. What should you look for in a college ceramics program?

3. What are some related majors?

4. What are some high school classes that are good to have for ceramics?

5. Click on a related major. What does it help to be in that major?

F. Colorado University has a strong art program

1. \ What are they looking for in a student?

2. How many electric kilns do they have?

3. Click on Kim Dickey as faculty. What two universities did she go to for ceramics?

4. List where she has had major shows.

5. Describe her work. What do you personally think of it?

G. Colorado state university has a strong art program

1. What are three things you would learn in the beginning pottery classes?

2. Click on Sanam Emami’s page. What does her pottery look like?

3. How many electric kilns does CSU have?

H. NCECA lists art jobs. Look up one

1. What is the job?

2. Where is it?

3. What is the potential salary?

4. What kind of credentials are needed?