SU Spring 2019 Ceramics I
Altered Cylinders
The first two weeks of every semester Ceramics I students work on the wheel, learning to center, and pulling cylinders. Any student who wishes to continue on the wheel may do so, provided they also complete their other assigned projects (I arrange additional throwing instruction outside of class, and often bring in potters from the community for demonstrations). At the end of the semester they may substitute a comprehensive body of thrown work for the final assignment.
Students use these first cylinders to explore and test glazes, and other surface treatments. They are encouraged to carve, sculpt, or alter their cylinders.
This is two views of one piece; the student stacked two cylinders they had thrown on the pottery wheel and pinched them into this form. It was fired to cone 6 in oxidation (electric kiln) and is approx. 10" tall.