Varied Vessels: The Composition of Parts
Course Description
Summary
This intermediate to advanced-level course is for students who are interested in exploring more complex vessel forms. Using various building techniques, students will make vessels with multiple elements. Forms this class may explore include cups with handles, covered jars, baskets, and pouring pots. Students will be asked to expand their form vocabulary and further integrate their vessels and fired surfaces. Considerations will be: What space does a vessel occupy and contain? What is the vessel鈥檚 relationship to utility? Discussions will address formal and conceptual issues, including scale, audience, and use. Students will be encouraged to identify and pursue personal directions within their work. Slide lectures, library visits, and critiques will provide historical references and peer perspectives on the projects. Students in this course will also spend some time making bowls that will be contributed to the Bennington Community鈥檚 Empty Bowls Fundraiser.
Please note that this course may require additional materials to be purchased by the student.
Learning Outcomes
- 1. Expand your clay building skills. Based on courses you have previously taken, this may include throwing, slip casting, hand-building, or digital printing.
2. To actively pursue and use sources, both historical and experiential, as part of your studio work.
3. To become more comfortable with and capable of discussing the ideas present in your work and art in general.
4. Be aware of and assert your observations of what is personal in your work.
5. To have become more familiar with studio artists working in this medium.
6. Further articulate what the ceramic process has taught you about yourself as a maker and problem solver.
Prerequisites
Have taken one or more ceramics courses at 51成人猎奇.
Please contact the faculty member : apeltz@bennington.edu