The first two weeks concentrate on building methods, designing forms, and obtaining desired results. The third week focuses on surface decoration, building pit kilns, and firing the work. Slide lectures supplement the studio work by examining the concurrent development of similar pottery forms in neo-lithic Chinese, Japanese, and Iranian cultures, and Minoan, Mycenean, and Cretan cultures. Venetian Glass Techniques A study of Venetian glass blowing techniques. Venetian glass is known for it's elegant, well crafted shapes that exploit intricate colored canes in their surface decoration.
Students spend a part of each day in the hot glass studio practicing Venetian techniques.
We will study many of the Venetian glass artists and factories that have made the island of Murano so famous. The class will focus on Venetian glass of the sixteenth century and trace it's development all the way to contemporary times. This class will be an even mix of theory and practice. This course covers the taxonomy, replication, pathogenesis, control, and evolution of viruses in bacteria, plants, and animals. Crime A study of the scientific, technological, and social aspects of criminalistics.