Our program teaches students how to throw, handbuild, glaze, create glazes, how to load and fire kilns, and how to love clay. Small class sizes offer easy access to the instructor, and space to work. Sierra Nevada College offers B.A. and B.F.A. degrees in Fine Arts with a concentration in ceramics.
Students take a variety of art classes as well as general education to receive their degree.
The beauty of Lake Tahoe, and the campus is inspiring to the artist in us all. The kiln yard is located next to a beautiful babbling creek. There are tall pine trees everywhere, and the air is clean and crisp. Sheri Leigh , instructor, demonstrates a vase form. In the Summer SNC offers week long workshops with nationally known ceramic artists.