ART 232 - Ceramics II

Credits: 3
Instructional Contact Hours: 6

Identifies, demonstrates, and discusses wheel throwing and clay mold making techniques. Generates complex ceramic surface design. Interprets and analyzes various traditional and contemporary ceramic processes. Employs a variety of methods to produce a portfolio of ceramic vessels and objects.

Prerequisite(s): ART 231
Corequisite(s): None
Lecture Hours: 30 Lab Hours: 60
Meets MTA Requirement: None
Pass/NoCredit: Yes

Outcomes and Objectives

orIdentify advanced art historically relevant ceramic styles or processes.
1. Discuss advanced formal, technical, and pedagogical aspects of various ceramic traditions.
2. Summarize advanced formal, technical, and pedagogical aspects of various ceramic styles.
Demonstrate advanced technical clay construction methods to produce a portfolio of ceramic vessels and objects.
1. Interpret advanced methods of fabricating ceramic object portfolio.
2. Apply advanced concurrent technologies to produce ceramic object portfolio.
Use ceramic glazing and surface design technique.
1. Apply advanced ceramic surface designs methods to portfolio of clay vessels and objects.
Summarize critical analysis of ceramic concepts.
1. Analyze advanced applied ceramic concepts through written critiques.
Exhibit basic knowledge of a high temperature reduction firing, and be able to differentiate and identify between wares that have been fired using different firing techniques.
1. Participate in some stage of faculty facilitated high-temperature reduction kiln firing.
2. Distinguish visually between wares fired using different firing techniques.