This course is about literally making meaning. Physical sculpture, in the form of ceramics, is one of the oldest and most powerfully enduring forms of human expression there is. This course opens students’ minds to the ways in which working in a physical medium can create meaning and achieve purpose.
This course consists of hand, wheel, and mold methods of construction. Students examine special hand-building and wheel techniques, glaze and decoration methods, and firing processes. Students create both functional and decorative pieces. There is no prerequisite for this class, though knowledge of how to draw is helpful.
