Workshops and Studio Courses
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Arts 524: Clay Calculation, Theory & Practice
Instructor: Natalia Kormeluk
Date: full semester starting January 22, 2025 ending May 7, 2025
Time: Every Wednesday, 5:30- 8:15 pm
Location: Studio 1-Tatem Building
Modality: Traditional
Description: A study of clay bodies desired by the studio potter, testing and correction of body formulas: stoneware, porcelain, flame ware, and hand-building. Slips, terra sigillata and glaze base. (2 credits)
(workshop fee: $500)
Arts 564: Aesthetics & Criticism
Instructor: Natalia Kormeluk
Dates & Time: Friday 1/24/25, 5-9 pm; Sat. 1/25/25, 10-4 pm
Friday 2/21/25, 5 -9 pm; Sat. 2/22/25, 10-4 pm
Friday 3/21/25, 5-9 pm; Sat. 3/22/25, 10-4 pm
Friday 4/25/25, 5-9 pm; Sat. 4/26/25, 10-4 pm
Modality: Traditional
Location: Tatem Senior Room
Description: Participants will formulate a methodology for recognizing their own professional philosophy on aesthetics, its variations, and its relationship to their creative work. Past and contemporary interpretations will be studied. Universal concepts of aesthetics, design, and criticism will be reviewed as they appear in the arts of various media in general and how they apply to three dimensional ceramics specifically.
Credits: 3
(Workshop fee: $ 500)
Arts 598: Teapots Exploration Form & Function
Instructor: Kristen Muller
Date & time: March 1- 2 Sat & Sun, March 8-9, Sat. & Sun. 10-4 pm all days.
Modality: hybrid
Place: Tatem Studio 1
Description: Exploring the design of asymmetrical composite forms and their function, including teapots. Parts are thrown on the potter's wheel and joined to create a harmonious vessel or sculpture.
Credits: 2
(workshop fee: $ 250.)
ARTS 520: Photographing Ceramics - 1 credit
With: Tim Jacobsen
Dates: 7/8 - 7/11
Class Times: 9am-3:30pm all days
Room: TA 19
Teaching Modality: Traditional
Description: A study of the equipment and methods for photographing and posting three-dimensional ceramic art works. Solving specific questions of lighting, surface reflection, placement in frame and close-ups.
Workshop Fee: $250
ARTS 508: Ceramic Sculpture- 2 credits
With: Cooper Siegel
Dates: 7/15 -19, 7/22-25
Class Times: 9am -3pm
Room: TA 2
Teaching Modality: Traditional
Description: The study of clay as a sculpting material in major hand building procedures, including pinch, coil, carving, slab methodologies for functional and modular construction. Emphasis is on the development of conceptual understanding of craftsmanship integrating clay, surface, firing and aesthetics.
Workshop Fee: $500
ARTS 599Teach: Strategies for Teaching Ceramics in school settings - 2 credits
With: Natalia Kormeluk
Dates: Monday - Thursday, 8/5,6,7,8
Class Times: 10am - 4pm
Room: TA 1
Teaching Modality: Traditional
Description: Through seminar, hands-on studio practice and planning, this course is for teachers or prospective art teachers wanting to establish strategies for teaching the ceramics arts on the primary, secondary and community college levels. Participants will identify solutions to such topics as teaching the potter’s wheel, developing age-appropriate hand building projects with an interdisciplinary approach, organize space, materials, and equipment, scaffold complex concepts, and develop student community in large classes.
workshop fee: $500
ARTS 507: Platters and other Advanced Techniques - 1 credit
With: Kristen Muller
Dates: Sat. & Sun. November 23 & 24
Class Times: 10 AM - 4 PM
Room: Tatem Studio 1
Teaching Modality: Traditional
Description: An in-depth study of throwing large platters, drying, trimming and firing.
Workshop Fee: $250
ARTS 525: Electric Kiln Technology Firing Theory - 1 credit
With: Bradley Birkhimer
Dates: Sat. & Sun., Oc.t 19 & 20
Class Times: 10 AM - 5 PM
Room: Tatem Building - Hand building Studio. and Electric kiln room.
Teaching Modality: Traditional
Description: A detailed study of programing, trouble shooting, maintaining, and firing electric kilns.
workshop fee: $250
Arts 531: Wood fire and Theory - 1 credit
With: Jackie Scott
Dates: Wednesday - Sunday, Nov. 13, 14,15, 16, 17.
Class Times: 9 AM - 5 PM
Room: Hodson Studio and Kiln Pad
Teaching Modality: Traditional
Description: A study in the methods for glazing, loading and firing a wood burning kiln.
workshop fee: $250
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