INDD-350

Topic: Pattern + Print 
This class explores printmaking and pattern design on ceramics using a variety of historical and contemporary techniques and approaches. You will be learning how to make pattern templates, screen-print designs, linocuts, tissue transfer, mono-printing and more for ceramics. Using ceramic inks specially developed for each technique, you will be incorporating patterns, drawings, photography and designs onto your ceramics while continuing to develop skills around wheel-throwing and hand-building in clay.  Develop your personal visual language in ceramics in this combined ceramics and printmaking class. Assigned projects, presentations, demonstrations, and critiques are an integral part of this course. 

Topic: Ceramic Design + Moldmaking 
Mold-making and slip-casting facilitate the exploration of reproduction and seriality. This class introduces a variety of materials (plaster, clay, rubber, etc.), tools and processes in order to develop an understanding of the potential of molds in artistic expression. One-part and multi-parts molds are realized and used to create original works. At the conceptual, formal and esthetic levels, issues of series, spatial reversibility, appropriation, mirror image, convex/concave alternates are presented and explored. Clay formulation and slip-casting complement the course. Studio work, demonstrations, research and presentations, discussions and critiques form an integral part of this class. 

Topic: Offsite Studio: Glass Design
Through this offsite studio course, at Terminal City Glass Co-op, students will work directly with hot glass processes and gain an understanding of current issues, approaches, and techniques related to Design + Glass production. In addition to hands-on learning including glassblowing, glass casting and cold working processes, students will study glass design within its historical context, and its contemporary context of community engagement and ecological perspectives.

Please note: This course requires payment of extra studio fees.