The program in ceramics offers students a full range of courses dealing with all aspects of the medium. The ceramics area is a large , fully equipped facility with a complete inventory of clay and glaze materials. The work space totals 7,700 square feet with graduate studio space available. Provided are clay mixing equipment, fourteen kick and electric potter's wheels slab roller, ball mills blunger for slip mixing, Frit furnaces, five gas downdraft and updraft kilns ranging from twenty cubic feet, raku kilns, four electric kilns and materials for experimental kiln construction. A full stock of raw glaze materials is available for both low and high-fire work.
Plaster is also on hand for mold-making and casting.
Personal instruction is given in all forming techniques, glaze calculations and kiln-firings. Students are encouraged to experiment with the medium and to explore new processes. Considerable emphasis is placed on the student's development of individual concepts and forms.