Course Description
This advanced ceramics course will combine studio practice and a seminar format. The studio component will provide ample time to concentrate on specific projects agreed upon by faculty and student. The seminar component of this course is designed to engage the group in dialog concerning different pertinent subjects chosen to disseminate information and exercise creative and critical thinking skills.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students will be required to submit a proposal to
research artists with whom they share things in common, such as
a way of working, a common visual vocabulary, a like conceptual
approach, a similarity in aspiration. Each student will present
a written paper and/or conduct an oral presentation with visual
and written information during the semester. In addition, the
work of those enrolled at the graduate level will require more
extensive research and practice in the topics that they
previously selected with the faculty.
Athena Title
Advanced Ceramics
Prerequisite
Six hours of ARST 3500
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The primary goal at the advanced level is to encourage the student to find a personal direction and individual style. The students should begin to understand how their work fits into the bigger art picture and how it may relate to the current art discourse. Students will have passed the ceramic portfolio review and be adept at mixing clay and glazes and firing their own work. Assessment of overall accomplishments is formulated during intense discussion at studio critiques occurring regularly throughout the semester. Students and instructor interact as a group during these critiques.
Topical Outline
Each semester the students choose one or more aesthetic projects on which to focus their efforts, culminating in a small body of work (8-10 finished pieces). A written statement of purpose is required defining the aesthetic dimension of the project, including a timetable for goals and expectations. The student is responsible for a technical project that supports his or her aesthetic proposal. By the end of semester, a final critique is conducted.
Syllabus
Public CV