Ceramics - Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Ceramics from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a Campus Bachelor Ceramic degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. Through interaction with peers, faculty, visiting artists, and individual attention, ceramics students engage in the personal research of ideas and techniques that leads to personal artistic identity, expression, and style. The ceramics program at SIUC is diverse in style, multicultural in composition, and committed to equal gender representation. Students come from all 50 states and numerous countries: England, Serbia, Japan, Korea, Ghana, Indonesia, Taiwan, China, and the Netherlands. Functional pottery, sculpture, and mixed media works all add to the program's diversity. Student in Ceramics StudioThe Ceramics area is located in Pulliam Hall. Each graduate student receives a 200 sq. ft. private studio. There is a well-stocked, well ventilated community glaze room with a ball mill and spray booth. Students have access to several sand blasters, slab rollers, and extruders. There is a well ventilated clay-mixing room with a stoneware mixer, a porcelain mixer, and 2 pug mills (1 de-airing). Ceramics has an indoor kiln room equipped with 2 Bailey gas kilns; a 50 and 45 cubic foot, along with 16 cubic foot gas kiln and a 90-cubic-foot gas car kiln. There are four electric kilns, a 16, two 10 and one 4-cubic-foot kiln. All kiln sizes represent stackable space. In addition there is an outdoor kiln area adjacent to ceramics with a raku kiln, a 50 plus cubic foot wood fired kiln and 40 plus cubic foot soda kiln. Students have 24-hour-a-day access to the studios. The Ceramics Visiting Artist Program provides opportunities to expand our aesthetic dialogue and is an integral part of graduate education. Recent visiting artists include Randy Johnston, Mark Pharis, Jeff Oestreich, Susan Obrien, Sandy Simon, Janet Koplos, Elaine Levin, David Furman, Richard Shaw, Jim Budde, John Gill, Joyce Jablonsky, Linda Leighton and Brad Schweiger. View more details on Southern Illinois University Carbondale . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Ceramic courses.