This course provides an introduction to Ceramic Sculpture with a specific focus on hand building processes. Contemporary Ceramics is an expansive art form including pottery and vessel making, sculptural works and painted tile work. The options for working with fired clay are limitless and the technical subject matter complex.
This course presents projects which give the student experiences in developing ideas based on contemporary culture. Sculpture processes which are additive and subtractive, plaster mold making, plus pinch, coil building, and slab construction methods as applied to sculpting will be taught. Glaze lectures, an introduction to electric kiln firing and a technical introduction to the raw materials are also presented.
The class format will include image presentations and demonstrations of hand building and sculpture techniques. Class lectures will incorporate highlights from ceramic history along with many contemporary examples. The course will consist of three major projects and group "lab work"; loading, firing and unloading class kiln firings. You will have an average of six class periods to work on each assigned project.
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