Sunday, October 15
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Ceramics
Ceramics Department
The Department of Ceramics at SAIC is a model of interdisciplinary investigation where art, design, and craft are the fields of research and innovation.
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Saturday, October 21
Graduate Portfolio Day provides the opportunity for prospective students to meet one-on-one with faculty, receive immediate feedback on their portfolios, and learn more about the curricula, faculty, and application procedures from a number of colleges. RSVP.
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Drawing from a wealth of technical and cultural traditions as well as from high-tech industrial applications, you will engage in a study and practice of ceramics that is unique and urgently contemporary. The SAIC Ceramics department reflects and embraces these contradictions, offering courses exploring interdisciplinary topics in ceramics such as the intersections of and shared methods, materials, and critical discourse among Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, Fiber and Material Studies, Sculpture and Performance.
SAIC offers one of the few ceramics graduate programs that focuses on experimental, contemporary ceramics, allowing you to move fluidly across materials and methods, using exploration of clay, sculpture, and studio pottery as a springboard for more personal and contemporary sculptural making. Free bulk materials allow for unlimited experimentation in the medium.
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Department Chair
Marie Hermann mhermann@saic.edu
Graduate Coordinator
Salvador Jimenez sjimen@saic.edu
Senior Administrative Director
Katie Short
Administrative Director
Jessica DuPreez
Administrative Assistant
Maria Dunaevsky
Assistant Director of Ceramics Facilities
Bowie Croisant