Students will investigate ceramics in relation to the archive through numerous studio-based projects, museum visits, historical precedents, and understanding contemporary ceramics as a serious artistic pursuit. Ceramics serves as an ideal archival material and therefore has been a record of time and place over thousands of years. Students will research source material from the history of ceramics, and by creating their own personal archives. Student projects include analysis of bricks as universal symbols of the grid, image in ceramics, ornament and narrative in historical vessels, and using clay as a meaningful record of the body.
Distribution Area: LA
Prerequisites and Restrictions
Not open to first-year undergraduates. VIS 331 or by permission of the instructor.
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Other Information
Assignments will address notions of fragmentation, abstraction, ornamentation, materiality and process as meaning. The studio-based assignments will be centered on both the what and how of ceramics through readings, slideshows, in-class demonstrations and field trips to see objects in person. Ceramics as archive will be addressed by connecting ceramics with photography, historical ornament, tile and brick as architectural fragment, and personal narrative.
