This course provides an opportunity for students to develop a personal vehicle for expression through the medium of clay and develop an understanding of their own working process. See supplies list for required tools. Class covers glaze design, development and application and stacking and firing of electric, oil, and propane kilns. Raku experiences will be introduced. Students may start their sequence any term.
Emphasis is placed upon developing a student's personal body of work.
Class focus is on developing an understanding of kilns, glaze materials, reduction firing and alternative firing processes. Course may be taken three times for transfer credit. Student may be in any quarter. However, an active sense of curiosity is desirable. Tests and reading assignments will be based on a body of personal ceramic work, glaze investigations and end of term critique.