Intermediate Potter’s Wheel: Implementation for Form Development
CER4269.01
Course Description
Summary
This 2-credit course is for students looking to advance their wheel-throwing skills. Assignments focus on combining wheel throwing and hand-building techniques to create multi-sectioned forms. Students will begin to define their own approach to the potter’s wheel as a tool for generating shapes and integrating form with fired surfaces.
Estimated Cost: Students should expect to spend $15–$25 on tools.
Learning Outcomes
- Advance your skill using the potter’s wheel to generate vessel forms:
• Learn to make sectioned pots.
• Advance your ability to throw large pots.
• Incorporate hand-building with your thrown pieces.
• Further articulate what the ceramic process has taught you about yourself as a maker and problem solver.
Prerequisites
Beginning Potter’s Wheel (or instructor permission based on prior wheel-throwing experience).
Please contact the faculty member : apeltz@bennington.edu