Ceramics One

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?

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Final for Ceramics 1. Assigned November 28

The final is 6 parts:

Thrown jar with lid performance piece; handbuilt vessel performance piece, in class critique; in class artist statement; written objective final; studio habits clean up of working spaces. EACH section will be graded on a 1-5 standards based scale.

Jar with lid, graded on 5 point scale. Last day to throw is Dec. 9

1. Centering

2. Thin walls

3. Gallery

4. Lid fits and has a knob

5. Clean edges/good rim

6. Trimmed foot

7. Clean glazing and nothing sticks to the kiln shelf

8. Must have name engraved on bottom.

9. If any of the above are missing, you will have no higher than a B

The second piece must be a hand built small vessel based on art from Peru. Last day for clay, Dec. 9. Graded on a 5 point scale. You should consider Nasca and Moche pieces. You will be graded on:

1. Must have at least one attachment that stays on, can be face or handle or spout

2. Start with a pinch pot

3. Must be white clay with waxed on designs.

4. Red terra sigillata must be painted in three coats over the wax and polished between each coat.

5. Fired once

6. Clean edges

7. Nothing falls off

8. Interesting design in wax

9. If any of the above are missing, you will receive no higher than a B

In class final day:

Part three, Critique of work as a class. Both pieces must be present for an A. You will answer the following questions as a class about your work and others:

1. Initial response to work: does it look professional? Explain.

2. Why the finishing that you chose: the glaze type, color and application

3. What ideas about Peru are expressed?

4. What works well in the piece?

5. What could be improved?

6. What did you learn in the process for both pieces?

7. Why do you think they were assigned?

8. In what ways, even though they were class projects, did you make them your own?

9. Explain how you could push both of these processes further.

Part four: Artist statement about both pieces

You will use the pages in your sketchbook that address artist statement and write two artist statements about your works.

Part 5 Short objective test: 20 questions about forming, firing, finishing processes including terminology.

This is on a 1-5 grading scale

Part 6: Studio practices clean up of space

This is on a 1-5 grading scale and will

Cleaning out ceramics locker and your storage and work space.

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