Ceramic Art Class

Art Ceramics

 Blinn College in Bryan Texas has a well equipped ceramics facility. The only collegiate resource for Ceramic Art Education in Bryan and College Station. Texas A & M students and the community come together to share the processes of creating useful and dynamic objects from clay. 

Clay is the most versatile art media.  You can paint and draw with colored clays, slips, and pigments on the surface of any clay object. You can shape, mold, and sculpt clay.  Challenge yourself by learning the technical craft of throwing a cup on the wheel or if you just want to experience and learn  about one of the oldest and most universal parts of human culture a ceramics class is for you.

Web site- Blinn Ceramics

 Projects                                                          

 -two pinch pot projects                                   

         

-clay bust

-six 6 inch cylinders

 -eight bowls

 -one  Lidded Jar/pitcher, two section combined

-glaze tests

-underglaze Tile

 -two coil pots, one at least 10 inches tall

 -organic soft slab project

-geometric stiff slab project

The Basic Schedule

Week 1		Pinch pot Bring your sketchbook to every class Hint- take notes on everything! Make three pinch pots, two for a hollow form and one for a tea cup. Take pictures of all your work. Clay notes Vocabulary handout. syllabus
Week 2		Bust project YOU SHOULD HAVE YOUR CLAY. Building techniques Additive and subtractive sculpting. Simple shapes. Gesture of your face Self-portrait in clay. Cleaners/ loaders
Week 3		Cylinders Throwing… sketchbook Drawings or images with directions. the 7 steps of throwing a cylinder in sketchbook Most important sketchbook Cleaners/ loaders
Week 4		Order glazes Handles Slips, wax and oxides Throwing quiz sketchbook Cleaners/ loaders
Week 5		Bowls   Demo Hint. do projects based on things you  want to make. sketchbook Cleaners/ loaders
Week 6		Kilns/firing History and types of ceramics sketchbook Cleaners/ loaders
Week 7		Stacked   Demo sketchbook Notes Cleaners/ loaders
Week 8		Coil pot   Demo sketchbook 25 shapes Cleaners/ loaders
Week 9		Midterm vocabulary test Glaze lecture sketchbook Cleaners/ loaders
Week 10		Slab   demo sketchbook Story Cleaners/ loaders
Week 11		sketchbook Cleaners/ loaders
Week 12		Stiff slab   sketchbook Cleaners/ loaders
Week 13		Paddle Pot sketchbook Cleaners/ loaders
Week 14		Work sketchbook Cleaners/ loaders
Week 15		Last week for wet work. Cleaners/ loaders
week 16		CLEAN Cleaners/ loaders Everyone.                       final