ARTT-152 Ceramics II
Students will continue to explore handbuilding techniques and clay as an expressive medium. There will also be an opportunity for a limited number of interested students to work on the potter's wheel. Students in this course will have more freedom to identify and pursue their own areas of interest.
Hours Weekly
4 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Apply the principles of aesthetics and effective design to hand built and/or wheel thrown forms.
- 2. Distinguish and evaluate personal strengths displayed in series works.
- 3. Control the flexible nature of clay.
- 4. Design, produce and glaze a series of specific forms of personal interest.
- 5. Demonstrate increased competency in the production of works in clay and with glazing procedures.
- 6. Employ the concept of working in multiples.
- 7. Display an original body of work which demonstrates originality and technical competency.
- 8. Throw or handbuild forms of greater size and complexity.
- 9. Load, stack and set into preheat the electric kiln for bisque and glaze firing.
- 10. Unload and record results of glaze firing.
- 11. Mix, liquify and sieve a dry mix batch glaze for studio use.
- 12. Apply the concept of constructive criticism as an evaluation tool for student work.
- 13. Present for group critique a body of work indicative of the semester's course work.
Course Objectives
- 1. Apply the principles of aesthetics and effective design to hand built and/or wheel thrown forms.
- 2. Distinguish and evaluate personal strengths displayed in series works.
- 3. Control the flexible nature of clay.
- 4. Design, produce and glaze a series of specific forms of personal interest.
- 5. Demonstrate increased competency in the production of works in clay and with glazing procedures.
- 6. Employ the concept of working in multiples.
- 7. Display an original body of work which demonstrates originality and technical competency.
- 8. Throw or handbuild forms of greater size and complexity.
- 9. Load, stack and set into preheat the electric kiln for bisque and glaze firing.
- 10. Unload and record results of glaze firing.
- 11. Mix, liquify and sieve a dry mix batch glaze for studio use.
- 12. Apply the concept of constructive criticism as an evaluation tool for student work.
- 13. Present for group critique a body of work indicative of the semester's course work.