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Creating original styles of artwork that transcend craft

Ceramics range widely from tableware for daily life to huge sculptural objects. This course aims to enable students to build the necessary skills to competently approach any ceramics-based project. We explore the full potential of the medium of clay to embody creative ideas towards development of a new ceramics culture. Students will experience everything from traditional craft to contemporary art. During the four years of this course students will establish their own creative styles through exposure to as many techniques, materials, and ways of thinking as possible.

Department profile (May 2009):

Undergrad students: 78
(M: 21; F: 57)
Overseas undergrad students: 1

Fulltime faculty: 3
Part-time lecturers: 11

Faculty:

OKUMURA Hiromi
MATSUMOTO Hideo
MIYANAGA Kotaro

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Curriculum:

1st year: Expanding the original image of “ceramics.” Appreciating the diverse potential of ceramics by integrating studies of painting, sketching, and 3D form.
Basic painting 1-2 , basic design 1, sculpture 1 (modeling with clay) sculpture 2 (stone carving)

2nd year: Basic studies of wheel throwing, “tatara,” coil work, firing and glazing; training in clay preparation techniques
Basic ceramics 1 (basic wheel throwing), basic ceramics 2 (basic tatara), basic ceramics 3 (coil work), basic ceramics 4 (promotion production), handcraft (pots, bowls & dishes), glazing techniques 1-2, material studies 1 & 2

3rd year: Expanding technical skills in molding, bigger wheel projects, silk transfer and various decorative techniques, promoting new inspirations in ceramic design
Ceramics 1 (craft), ceramics 2 (study of ceramic materials), 3 (bigger wheel projects), ceramics 4 (molding), ceramics 5 (promotion production), figurative arts 1 & 2, drafting 1 & 2

4th year: Realization of ceramics projects based on the preceding 3 years. Further studies of techniques, completion of graduation works
Ceramics 6 (seminar group production), theory of ceramic techniques 1 & 2, graduation work production