20815294Ceramics Sculpture 1
Course Information
Description
Introduces clay as a building material for creating sculpture. This class covers multiple hand-building methods of clay, including pinching, soft and hard slab building, coiling, press and slip molds, and tile making. Students will explore form and surface decoration through glazes, textures, carving, and imagery. This course provides experience in researching and critiquing other works of art. Lab safety and cleanliness are essential in this lab course.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. You have the opportunity to learn and develop the technical expertise necessary to form, fire and glaze clay sculpture.

  2. Basic forming techniques such as pinching, cylinder building, coil building and slab work.

  3. Using the basic forming techniques to make successful and innovative sculpture.

  4. Kiln stacking

  5. Glazing

  6. Developing problem solving and creative techniques necessary to do work with a material that involves multiple steps.

  7. Developing an awareness of local, global, cultural and historical aspects of three-dimensional arts.

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