Intermediate/Advanced Wheel Throwing

Course Description

Summary

In this course, students will continue to develop their throwing skills and define their own approach to using the potter’s wheel as a tool for generating forms. They will expand their form vocabulary and further integrate form and fired surface. Students interested in function will examine associated questions. All students will explore the wheel’s possibilities as an expressive tool. Demonstrations will include combining various wheel-throwing and hand-building processes. Discussions will address formal and conceptual issues in student work, including scale, audience, and contemporary relevance. Lectures, library visits, and critiques will provide historic references and peer perspective on the projects. Each student will be required to give a presentation on an artist or an issue of interest to them in the arts and its relationship to their own artwork. 

Graduating seniors will be required to write an artist statement and submit a photographic portfolio of their senior work in ceramics.