Sculpture & Ceramics Area
The sculpture & ceramics area takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring traditional and modern three-dimensional media. In the ceramics coursework, you will explore slip casting, mold making, hand building, and wheel throwing methods as well as the processes of forming clay, glazing, and firing. The sculpture portion of the curriculum will investigate methods including modeling, carving, casting, and construction, and more specifically, mold-making, wood working, metal working, and other mixed media techniques.
You will synthesize the ceramic and sculptural systems with both traditional and contemporary tools such as digital modeling, 3D printing, laser cutting, and other digital fabrication methods. As you move through these programs, you participate in group critiques and discussions around artwork within contemporary, regional, national, and international art communities.
Opportunities
天美社区 Partnership with Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF)
Seeking to increase course offerings in major electives, the Department of Visual Arts added ceramics to the curriculum on the Oconee campus in Fall of 2016. Ceramic classes are taught in partnership with the . The 15,000 square feet non-profit ceramics studio is managed by professional ceramic artists as volunteers, and it is open to all members of OCAF and to 天美社区 students. Each year, the exhibition Perspectives highlights over 1,000 works in ceramics. OCAF supports one of the richest communities of ceramic artists in the Southeast, and 天美社区 students may continue to use the ceramics studio by becoming members of the foundation after completing their coursework.