Spring 2020 Ceramics (All Levels) During Pandemic!
‘Green’ review, before the pandemic hit.
Art 315 (Ceramics II)
‘Green’ review, before the pandemic hit.
At the beginning of the semester, Ceramics II students may choose to focus on either ceramic sculpture, or developing skills with the pottery wheel (this semester is the last semester of the ‘old’ system – Fall 2020 and beyond will have classes specifically designated for either Pottery or Sculpture). Students are learning new techniques (Sgraffito, Mishima, altering thrown forms, etc.) but the main focus at this level is developing control with the wheel. Students are challenged to throw the same form in sets of at least 20. Technical quality of their forms are also considered: are they moving all of the clay up, are the walls of the pot a consistent thickness from top-to-bottom, have they compressed the bottom correctly, etc.
The old adage ‘quality over quantity’ actually does not apply to learning pottery – students who make a high volume of forms always end up making the best pots by the end of the semester.