Syllabus

Course Description:
This course is a perceptually based introduction to figure sculpture using fired clay as the medium. The class will include a study the human body and options for its representation in three dimensions. An orientation to building, surfacing, and firing ceramics and processes of hand-forming clay including: pinching, coil-building, slab building, modeling, and carving will be introduced. The class format will include image (Powerpoint) and video presentations, two life model sequences, demonstrations, critiques, and team firings. The course includes three themes, each differing in focus: the “perceptual”, the “gestural”, and the “interpretive”. Group “lab work;” loading, firing, and unloading class kiln firings is required and integrated into the structure of the course.