ART 2513 - Ceramics II

• Develop essential skills for creating art by correctly handling ceramic material through all stages of formation including drying, surface treatments, and firing processes.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of design through analyzing the form and surface treatment of ceramic vessels.
• Develop critical thinking and presentation skills through the production and critique of projects that explore the expressive possibilities of the course media.

• Students develop higher order thinking skills.
• Students gain greater awareness of cultural perspectives.
• Students develop effective oral communication skills.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Wheel-Throwing: wedging, centering, cylinders, tumblers, mugs, pitchers, footed vessels, bowls, lidded vessels, and plates
• Surfaces: dip, pour, brush, and spray application; glazes, underglazes, slips; sgraffito, mishima, inlay,
• Firing: types of kilns, kiln environments, preparation of work and kiln for firing, loading/unloading a kiln, bisque firing, glaze firing
• Ceramics: historical vessels, contemporary vessels, and vocabulary

Learning Activities

• Creation of clay objects utilizing the potter’s wheel
• Glazing/Firing
• Critiques/Presentations
• Sketchbook Drawings/Research

Assessments

• Assignments may be graded individually or as part of a grouping
• Work may be graded through the various stages of completion from a greenware state on the wheel to a final glazed product

Grading guidelines

• A minimum of 70% of this course’s grade should be in-class ceramic projects created on the potter’s wheel with some variation allowed in terms of weight for sketchbook, quizzes, documentation, presentations, and critiques.