Program Overview

Studio Art Degree with a Concentration in Ceramics

Overview

The Studio Art Degree with a Concentration in Ceramics is a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) program that offers knowledge, aesthetics, technical approaches, and invention through hands-on experiences with raw materials and technical processes.

Program Details

• Program Type: Major
• Format: On Campus
• Estimated Time to Complete: 4 years
• Credit Hours: 120

Description

The Ceramics program is an engaged and inclusive community of undergraduate and graduate students, technical staff, and accomplished faculty who promote excellence in the field. Students work in the new $10 million Art Annex with the oldest of nature's materials while practicing contemporary methods of fine art, craft, technology, and design.

Marketable Skills

• Creative thinking
• Adapting techniques
• Autonomous working
• Oral and written communication
• Multiple approach assessment

Highlights

• Our faculty members are nationally and internationally acclaimed artists and scholars who impact communities worldwide as active members and leaders of national organizations, including NCECA and the International Academy of Ceramics.
• Our new $10-million, 22,600-square-foot Art Annex is home to the Ceramics program.
• Our new facilities include 3D printers, a clay printer, ram press, and Blauuw kilns.
• Through an annual juried art competition, many students receive cash prizes and scholarships.
• Scholarships also are available through local, regional, and international exhibitions.

Career Opportunities

• Education – continue in a graduate program. May instruct private lessons or public workshops and classes at colleges, universities, museums, galleries, community centers, artist residencies, or studios.
• Ceramicist – creates and sells one-of-a-kind fine art for galleries, specialty shops, craft markets, or art fairs. May work in production-ceramics jobs.
• Craft and fine artists advance professionally as their work circulates and as they establish a reputation for their particular style. Many of the most successful artists continually develop new ideas, and their work often evolves over time.

Courses

• Beginning Ceramics: Throwing (3 hrs)
• Intermediate Ceramics: Form, Function, and the Body (3 hrs)
• Intermediate Ceramics: Molds and Multiples (3 hrs)
• Intermediate Ceramics: Material Studies (3 hrs)
• Intermediate Ceramics: Surface and Ornamentation (3 hrs)
• Beginning Ceramics: Hand-building (3 hrs)