CUPS Tablescape Design Project: Slip Casting Production Lab
Course Description
Summary
This lab class is structured for students who have completed CER2208 CUPS: Slip Casting and Mold Making (or equivalent introductory mold making and slip casting courses) to achieve independent production goals to create a series of ceramic functional ware (cups). The two-hour weekly lab will be guided by the faculty so that students can receive technical guidance and adequate support to establish their studio production practices and expand their knowledge and creative capacities.
Students will pursue an independent cup project through rigorous research and development. Students are encouraged to consider social and cultural contexts of communal eating/drinking to design, produce and put them in use.
Students should participate in one of the following weekly lab hours throughout the term: Wednesdays 7 - 8:50 pm or Thursdays 7 - 8:50 pm (*hours to be determined at the beginning of the Fall 25 term and are subject to change) and independently work during the open studio hours.
Learning Outcomes
- To develop knowledge and skills that demonstrate the students’ capacity to be able to sufficiently work in the professional environment of ceramic production.
- Competency to apply fundamental techniques and positively incorporate failures.
- Enable critical thinking to broaden design concepts and approaches to produce work in imaginative or unconventional ways.
- Ability to develop innovative and effective solutions to complex design problems.
- Ability to engage in experimentations, risk taking and research processes.
- Understanding of collective values of the creative environment in Ceramic classrooms, studios and labs through peer critiques, collaboration, and sharing ideas and resources.
Prerequisites
CUPS: Mold Making and Slip Casting or Introductory Mold Making and Slip Casting class in Ceramics.
Please contact the faculty member : yinoue@bennington.edu
Cross List
- Design