| Introduction to Clay |
1000 (001) |
Javier Jasso |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 9:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This course provides an introduction to clay as a material. Participants will be introduced to a wide variety of methods and techniques to build, decorate, and glaze ceramic. Demonstrations in Hand-building, coiling, slap-building and surface application including glaze development and application, slip decoration and firing methods, will give students a proficiency in working with clay and in the ceramic department. Introductions to the rich and complex history of ceramic through readings, lectures and museum visits, will provide students with exposures to the critical discourse of contemporary ceramic. This is primarily a beginner's course but open to all levels of students. Readings will vary but typically include, Hands in Clay by Charlotte Speight and John Toki. Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art by Clare Lilley. Ten thousand years of pottery by Emmanuel Cooper. 20th Century Ceramics By Edmund de Waal. Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community by Jenni Sorkin. The course will look at artist like Magdalene Odundo, George E. Ohr, Shoji Hamada, Roberto Lugo and Nicole Cherubini as well as historic ceramic from the Art Institutes of Chicago?s collection. Students are expected to complete 3 projects by the end of the semester, Biweekly readings will be part of the course.
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Class Number
1954
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm M153
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| Ceramics: Wheel Throwing Fundamentals |
1001 (001) |
Chris Salas |
Sat
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course will focus on developing beginning and continuing skills on the wheel. Students will be introduced to fundamental methods for using the wheel as a tool to create vessels with consideration of their meaning and consequence and stretch the boundaries of utility. In addition to the design and structure of functional objects, this course will familiarize students with the working properties of ceramic material, firing methods, and glazes. We will look at artists working both in traditional and non-traditional methods. Artists will vary, but some we will look at include: Edmund de Waal, Alleghany Meadows, Gerrit Grimm, Mike Helke, Steve Lee, and more. Readings will include articles covering topics about the convergence of fine art and craft, how objects affect our daily life and rituals, the place of craft within contemporary society. Specific authors may be : Chris Staley, Glenn Adamson, Jenni Sorkin, Okakura Kakuzo and Edmund de Waal Projects vary, but typically there are 5-6 assignments in the course with each assignment consisting of 3-20 pieces of finished work with additional research in glaze and firing processes. Students will also have readings and responsibilities with firing work.
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Class Number
2069
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm M153
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| Materials/Process: On/Off Wheel |
1012 (001) |
Javier Jasso |
Tues
3:30 PM - 9:15 PM
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Description
This course is a broad overview of ceramic construction methods, firing processes, development of clay and glaze, and use of equipment. This is course is essential in learning the core processes of working with clay. Students will broaden their skills and gain a more thorough understanding of material characteristics and processes, develop firing skills, and participate in a dialogue about theory and content in ceramics. This course will address processes of hand-building and throwing on the wheel. The format of this course includes weekly demonstrations and lectures and development of a personal body of work utilizing ceramic technology. We will look at artists working both in traditional and non-traditional methods. Artists will vary, but some we will include are: Bouke de Vries, Kahlil Robert Irving, Ed Eberle, Marilyn Levine, Bonnie Marie Smith, Kjell Rylander, Gerrit Grimm, Genesis Belanger, Richard Shaw, Kristen Morgin, Shannon Goff, Bente Sk?ttgaard, Joanna Powell, Joanna Poag, and Eugene Von Brunchenhein. Readings will include articles covering topics about the convergence of fine art and craft, how objects affect our daily life and rituals, the place of craft within contemporary society. Specific authors are: Glenn Adamson, Jenni Sorkin, Jo Dahn, Garth Clark, Edmund de Waal. Projects vary, but typically there are 4 assignments in the course with each assignment consisting of 1-5 pieces of finished work with additional research in glaze and firing processes. Students will also have readings and responsibilities with firing work.
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Class Number
1955
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm M153
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| Introduction to Ceramic Sculpture |
1014 (001) |
Sonya Bogdanova |
Tues
3:30 PM - 9:15 PM
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Description
This course is a concentrated examination of ceramic construction and firing processes, clay and glaze materials, and use of equipment to produce ceramic sculpture. This is essential as a fast track entry into competent and independent use of the department for students new to ceramics. Students broaden their skills and gain a more thorough understanding of material characteristics and processes, develop their firing skills, and participate in a dialogue about theory and content specific to ceramic sculpture. The course format includes weekly demonstrations and lectures while developing a body of personal work utilizing ceramic technology. It is required that this, or another Materials and Processes course is taken before or concurrently with any other ceramics course.
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Class Number
2026
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm M152
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| Throwing: Multilevel |
2005 (001) |
Nancy Fleischman |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
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Description
This multilevel class is for students with or without experience in wheel throwing. Beginning students are introduced to ideas, materials and techniques for throwing vessels. They acquire the necessary skills to construct and analyze a wide range of vessel forms. Intermediate and advanced students continue their individual development of throwing, glazing and firing kilns. Course discussions focus on issues around the vessel to acquire critical understanding of containers and their functions, as well as using the wheel as a means for constructing sculptural forms.
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Class Number
1141
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm M153
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| Vessel Construction |
2010 (001) |
Marie Herwald Hermann |
Thurs
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course investigates both on and off-wheel construction techniques. It will explore wheel throwing and various hand building techniques such as: extruding, coil, slab, pinch, slump, and press molding-to produce interpretations of the vessel in contemporary society. The vessel as an enclosure of space is the departure point for discussions that include historical references in a contemporary context, the personal metaphor, and the generation of conceptual and aesthetic development beyond the utilitarian format.
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Class Number
2066
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm M153
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| Digital Methods for Ceramic Production |
2011 (001) |
Mark N. Stafford |
Mon, Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Description
A survey of digital design, prototyping, and production methods, this course will familiarize students with the many ways artists and designers use digital technologies to facilitate traditional ceramic practices. Students will be introduced to basic CAD and modeling techniques using Rhino, Grasshopper, Blender, and ZBrush, and to both direct and indirect ceramic production methods using the PotterBot ceramic 3-D printer, AOC 3D scanners, and CDFS laser cutters & 3D printers. The emphasis is not on mastery of any particular program or process, but on introducing students to a wide range of techniques and concepts that they may fruitfully pursue in future work. In addition, students will gain familiarity with the contemporary field of digital production, including current design and manufacturing technologies and the technical, formal, and conceptual uses to which they are put. Artists covered include Matthew Angelo Harrison, Jenny Sabin, Geoffrey Mann, Michael Eden, and Anya Gallaccio. The course will be divided into three sections and will include four preliminary exercises and two projects. The first project focuses on direct digital production and will illustrate the mechanical and operational use of the Potterbot ceramic 3D printer. The second project will transition from direct to indirect production methods, from the acquisition of digital methods to their application, and on the incorporation of digital methods into students? established or developing practice.
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Class Number
1139
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Area of Study
Digital Imaging
Location
280 Building Rm M152, 280 Building Rm 127A
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| Beyond the Utilitarian Vessel |
2013 (001) |
Liz McCarthy |
Mon/Wed
6:45 PM - 9:15 PM
In Person
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Description
An exploration of 20th and 21st century conceptual ceramic vessels focusing on the ways in which artists harness the rich history of ceramic production for contemporary purposes. The course will cover ideas of utility, domesticity, decorativeness, and ritual; it will explore relationships between industrial and digital mass production and handcraft; it will examine vessels as metaphors for the body, as carriers of culturally specific meaning, and as expressions of personal and political identity. We will begin our examination of the conceptual vessel with an overview of ceramic history from the Arts and Crafts Movement through to the advent of what Anne Wilson dubbed ?Sloppy Craft.? We will consider famous 20th century works such as Duchamp?s Fountain, Meret Oppenheim's Object, and Judy Chicago?s Dinner Party, as well as canonical ceramics figures such as George Ohr, Peter Voulkos, Robert Arneson, Kathy Butterly, Betty Woodman, Viola Frey, and Beatrice Wood. Other artists will include: Ai Weiwei, Roberto Lugo, Grayson Perry, Diego Romero, Arlene Shechet, Francesca Dimattio, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Kukuli Velarde, Ann Agee, Liu Jianhua, Milena Muzquiz, Laurent Craste, Ehren Tool, Julie Green, and many others. Readings will include excerpts from Glenn Adamson?s Thinking Through Craft and The Craft Reader, Elaine Cheasley Paterson and Susan Surette?s Sloppy Craft: Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts, and Moira Vincentelli?s Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels. With a research intensive focus on the development of concepts, students will produce two vessel-based projects by any combination of hand building, wheel throwing, slip casting, 3d printing, and/or found object manipulation. In addition, students will prepare one 10-15 minute presentation on either a specific culture?s ceramic production or on a contemporary artist producing conceptual ceramic vessels.
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Class Number
2064
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Area of Study
Community & Social Engagement
Location
280 Building Rm M153
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| Top: Feminist and Queer Clay Strategies |
2035 (001) |
Stevie Thomas Hanley |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 9:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This class engages with feminist and queer theory to explore non-traditional methods of engaging with clay. Students will cultivate strategies for producing artwork in dialogue with conversations on the body as a medium, gender, and sexuality. Throughout the course, students will draw from assigned text, research, and art historical references as a source for contextualizing their own practice. Projects will explore the use of form, formlessness, and performance as processes for manipulating ceramic material.
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Class Number
1801
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm M152
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| Ceramic Sculpture |
2051 (001) |
William John O'Brien |
Wed
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course introduces students to sculptural ideas executed in various ceramic hand construction techniques including slab, coil, press mold, etc. Students will explore how the unique physical characteristics of clay can contribute to the content of the work. Construction strategies will be examined in a conceptual context, investigating issues of space, technology, and architectural implication to build a dimensional perspective of personal and societal relevance. Emphasis will be on process, exploration, and discussion. We will examine artists who've instrumentalized clay in inventive and boundary-pushing ways. Some of the artists we'll look at are Arlene Schechet, Annabeth Rosen, Ron Nagel, Huma Bhabha, Genesis Belanger and more. Readings and screenings will vary but typically include interviews with contemporary artists and critical essays by Eva Respini, Clare Lilley, Rosalind Krauss and more. Students should expect to produce a body of work consisting of assigned and self directed projects to be presented in a culminating midterm and final critique.
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Class Number
1140
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm M152
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| Clay as Chameleon |
2900 (021) |
Emily Schroeder Willis |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Clay is an amazing material for an interdisciplinary artist to have in their repertoire. It can be as hard as stone one moment and you can also watch it disintegrate before your eyes the next. Throughout the centuries artists and craftspeople have capitalized on its transformative nature, sometimes even disguising it in plain sight. In this course we will see how artists from many backgrounds have used transformative materiality within their work. ARTISTS/READINGS Readings will vary but we will look at excerpts from articles like: Jo Dahn “New Directions in Ceramics”, Jenni Sorkin “Pottery in Drag: Beatrice Wood and Camp”, Paul Matheiu “The Radical Autonomy of Ceramics”. A sample of artists whom we will be studying are: Bertozzi & Cassoni, Alexandra Engelfriet, Teri Frame, Shiyuan Xu, Claire Twomey, Marilyn Levine, Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Nina Hole, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Andy Goldsworthy, Theaster Gates, Edmund de Waal, Magdalene Odundo and Pheobe Cummings ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS Course work will vary but typically includes weekly reading responses, biweekly mentoring meetings, engage in critique of both peer artwork as well as self-reflection on student’s own work and a few small individual projects.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be a sophomore to enroll.
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Class Number
1816
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm 120
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| Ceramics for Designed Objects |
3020 (001) |
Chris Salas |
Fri
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course takes students on a journey through the changing landscape of ceramic art, design, and production. Recent advances in rapid prototyping technologies provide designers and artists with more direct means for transforming concepts into physical form. In this course, students explore various ways to apply advanced technologies to ceramic design and production. Students will acquire basic skills in clay modeling methods, plaster mold making, slip casting, 3D Scanning, digital modeling, and digital output methods including 3D Printing and Laser Cutting. Basic knowledge for Rhino and/or other 3D modeling software is required. The technologies and methods for ceramic production have been developing over the course of thousands of years, often linked to specific material/cultural histories. Digital tools afford makers the ability to create, manipulate, distort, and ideate without the constraints of the ceramic process. Through slide lecture, readings, group discussions, demonstrations, and self directed projects, we will consider ceramic production methods of the past and how they influence contemporary art and design practices. In this course we will ask the questions: What are the benefits and the challenges of using ceramic materials? How can we use digital tools to assist in the ideation, prototyping, and the production of ceramic objects? How can we use ceramic materials to assist in the ideation, prototyping, and production of digital objects? What is the interplay between the digital object and the ceramic object?
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Class Number
2067
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Area of Study
Digital Imaging, Product Design, Sustainable Design
Location
280 Building Rm M152
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| Top: Rethink, Reuse and Recycle Ceramics |
3035 (001) |
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Tues
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
The characteristics and implications of clay in all its states-dry, plastic, readymade, and so on-are explored in an advanced conceptual context. This course examines the subjective role of materiality. Expanding the language of clay, and the approaches to it via nonconventional methods of manufacture and installation, the involvement of recycling/ repurposing found ceramic objects and material will be the intent of the class. Some of the artist we will be looking at are Breanda Tang, Phoebe Cummings, Morel Doucet, Caroline Slotte, Magdolene Dykstra and Kjell Rylander
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Class Number
1138
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm M152
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| Technical Studies:Glaze |
3061 (001) |
Mie Kongo |
Wed, Wed
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This technical studies course will explore glaze materials, the geology of ceramic materials, ceramic chemistry, glaze and clay body formulation, glaze colors, the function of heat, firing atmosphere, and glaze characteristics, behaviors and defects. The spectrum of raw ceramic materials become familiar to students through weekly lectures and discussions, numerous experimental glaze material tests and data recording and analysis. Students will learn how to safely use and exploit a wide variety of ceramic materials in order to develop a broader understanding of applications for personal expression. We will explore a wide range of glaze formulations while building a comprehensive foundation for understanding how materials can be used and formulated to yield specific and reproducible results. At the conclusion of this course, each individual will have the tools to precisely test and produce glaze formulations, understand how to use the various tools present in the glaze lab, and the ability to interpret written and fired formulae results. This class is designed as a half lecture and half lab course. Course work includes weekly reading, 10 glaze test assignments, mid-term and final quizzes and final critique.
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Class Number
1137
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Area of Study
Art and Science
Location
280 Building Rm M153, 280 Building Rm 032
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| Advanced Throwing |
4005 (001) |
Dylan Palmer |
Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course will serve to illuminate and complicate the opportunities and challenges associated with making ceramics on the throwing wheel. Invented in Mesopotamia roughly 5000 years ago, the potter's wheel was a tool intended to speed up and increase consistency in the production of utilitarian ceramic vessels. The spectrum of practitioners using the potters wheel today spans the world and ranges from traditional artisans, design and crafts people to contemporary artists. Working with regard to this dynamic reality, this course will work to address and accommodate all manner of interests with the goal to enable students to make diligent use of the potter?s wheel, both in consideration of historical and contemporary methods and dialogs. Advanced Throwing is for students already proficient in throwing techniques Pre rec. Wheel Throwing Fundamentals and Intermediate Throwing CER We will look at artists working both in traditional and non-traditional methods. Artists will vary, but some we will look at include: Yuta Segawa, Dove Drury, Adam Silverman, Donte K. Hayes, Carl-Harry St?lhane, Gerrit Grimm, Steve Lee, and more. Readings will include articles covering topics about the convergence of fine art and craft, how objects affect our daily life and rituals, the place of craft within contemporary society. Specific authors may be : Jenni Sorkin, Okakura Kakuzo and Edmund de Waal Students should expect to produce two bodies of work consisting of 20-30 finished pieces during the semester, to be presented in mid-term and final critiques.
Prerequisites
Must have completed one of CER 1001, CER 1012, CER 2005, CER 3000, CER or 3010
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Class Number
1802
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm M153
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| Multiples |
4040 (001) |
Nancy Fleischman |
Fri
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
In their work students will consider the possibilities of 'multiples' as duplicate, copy, replica, counterfeit, translation, group, growth, repetition, representation, pattern making, modular system, edition, progression, mutation, doppelganger, imitation, clone, reproduction, sequence, symbolism, mass production, additions over time and more. What does it mean to create in Multiples? Why make so many at this point in time when we live in a world where we already have so many objects? These are just some of the questions that the class will take on. All techniques in conjunction with clay will be used in this class. However, there will be demonstrations on making multiple part molds and slip casting, jiggering, glaze and surface manipulation. Some artist that we will study in this course include Paul Cummins, Rachel Kneebone, Caroline Slotte, Susan York, Richard Shaw, Wendy Walgate, Alexandra Englelfriet, Edmund de Waal, Walter McConnell, Bonnie Kemske, Hella Jongerius, Belinda Blignaut, Janet Deboos, Gabriel Orozco, Alissa Volchkova, Dylan Beck. Readings will come from a variety of sourse some of which might include Thinking Through Craft by Glen Adamson, Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art by Clare Lilley and CRAFT edited by Tanya Harrod, The White Road by Edmund De Waal. This course will allow students to create two self-directed projects. Students should to be able to produce a one and two part mold on their own upon the completion of this class.
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Class Number
2068
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Area of Study
Product Design
Location
280 Building Rm M153
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| Ceramics Senior Critique Studio |
4900 (001) |
Emily Schroeder Willis |
Thurs
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course is a forum for in-depth critiques, technical, conceptual, and professional practice discussions based on the student?s practice and research. The goal of this class is to provide students information and guidance on how they can continue with their art practice after school. Each student enrolled in the course will be assigned a studio space within the department. The course is open to Seniors only who have previously taken 9 credit hours of Ceramics classes, 2000-level and above. Students signing up for this class must also be enrolled in any 3 credit hour Ceramics class, 2000-level and above. Seniors may enroll in this course for two consecutive semesters only. Some of the books we will use as a reference for this class may be Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 by Sharon Louden and 33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton. Additionally, students will present to the class about an artist or thinker. The format for this course is primary individual and group meetings, readings, presentations, field trips, exhibitions, and group critiques. Additionally, we will have a discussion with guest artists speaking and about their work and the technicalities of how to continue with their art practice. Students will learn how to document, install, and promote their work. It is expected of the students to self direct their own project culminating with a final exhibition project as part of their BFA or Gallery 1922.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 3900 course
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Class Number
1815
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Location
280 Building Rm 109
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| Direct Access |
5002 (001) |
Salvador Jiménez-Flores |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This interdisciplinary studio seminar based in the ceramics department is designed for grad students interested in exploring the endless possibilities that clay offers as a material adapted into individual studio and research practices. The first portion of this class will be technically based to learn different modes of construction, mold making, as well as different glazing and firing techniques in ceramics. The second portion will be focused on independent projects, advising and critical discussions. Readings will be a combination of history of ceramics, contemporary artist, and technical information. Some of the contemporary artists using clay within contemporary art practice we will study in this course include Cannupa Hanska Luger, Elizabeth Jaeger, Woody De Othello, and more. There will be discussions on the history of ceramics and how contemporary artists use clay in performance, sculpture, design, architecture, and print media. Students should expect to produce a consistent body of work to be presented in a culminating course critique at the end of the session. Junior and Senior-level undergraduate students are welcome to enroll in this course and should email the instructor to seek authorization to register.
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Class Number
2007
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Credits
3
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Department
Ceramics
Area of Study
Art/Design and Politics, Gender and Sexuality, Class, Race, Ethnicity
Location
280 Building Rm M152
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