Ceramics - Eastern Kentucky University

Ceramics from Eastern Kentucky University is a Campus Bachelor Ceramic degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. The ceramics facilities provide EKU students with opportunities to explore various ways of working with clay. The offerings open with a core course in basic hand building techniques. Subsequent courses, for BFA candidates in Ceramics and other advanced students, progress through throwing techniques and glaze formulations, surface applications and decoration, problems relating to large scale work, and experimental techniques and/or research in glazing and firing. After three courses in the sequence, students enter the advanced section of the curriculum, where they are allowed to work more independently and one-on-one with the instructor. Specialized courses, for example in kiln design and construction, are also occasionally offered to advanced students. In the large ceramics studio there is ample space for instruction, both wheel and hand throwing, and rack storage of student work. Equipment here includes 10-12 electric potter's wheels, three slab rollers, and two clay extruders. Clay and glazes are stored and mixed mechanically in rooms immediately adjacent to the studio. Also connected to the main ceramics studio is the area chair's private work space, a generous work space for BFA candidates, and a drying/kiln room with six electric kilns (ranging in capacity from one to twenty cubic feet), and two large alpine gas kilns. In an outdoor firing facility accessible through the sculpture area, there are hand built kilns for primitive firings and other smoke-related techniques, a gas-fired salt kiln, a raku kiln, and additional space for experimental kiln building. As part of the Art Department at Eastern, the Ceramics program emphasizes the importance of the study of clay as a medium of artistic expression as well as craft. Attention is paid to its rich history, as well as to the means by which artists can draw from that experience to find personal expression in their chosen area. Ceramics students should be challenged by a range of past and present techniques and theories, as they determine how best to define their own positions within the contemporary landscape of ideas. To these ends, the Ceramics program is committed to bringing in visiting artists and adjunct faculty on a regular basis, for as little as a few days or for as much as a term, to work with students on a firsthand basis. Guest artists thus far have included practitioners and educators with national reputations, reflecting a variety of ideologies and techniques. View more details on Eastern Kentucky University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Ceramic courses.