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Ceramics: Expressions in Clay

Clay is an expressive medium. Using various sculptural techniques, you’ll gain a variety of painterly and contemporary low fire abilities. (This course is cross-listed with FASCU 231.)

Wheel Formed Sculpture

Gain the ability to make cylinders, bowls, and discs on a potter’s wheel. You will use these shapes to create sculptures, an practice low temperature firings like raku. (This course is cross-listed with FASCU 338.)

Ecorche

Learn skeletal construction and musculature by sculpting an anatomical representation of the human body with the skin removed. Using plasteline figures, you’ll explore morphology, structural concepts, and rhythmic proportion. (This course is cross-listed with FASCU 632.)

Portrait Sculpture

Learn to sculpt portraits in clay as if it were bronze. You’ll understand differences in personal vs commissioned portraits, and a likeness vs. a psychological portrait, and present all as a means of expression.