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School of Art & Art History

USF College of Design, Art & Performance

Ceramics

Channel yourself through your hands and explore what you can build with clay. Glaze materials, figurative ceramics, mold-making and casting, and more, the possibilities with ceramics provide plenty for your hands and creativity to work with.

Overview

From a deep historic foundation, the ceramic medium consistently evolves and returns. At the ÅÝܽÊÓƵapp, we approach clay with broad explorative research ranging from ancient craft histories to contemporary critical dialogs. We are a conservatory program allowing ÅÝܽÊÓƵapps the freedom to develop singular research to realize their ideas, whether clay is a specific practice or part of wider material decisions. We’re interested in the role of the hand as well as ways to utilize cutting-edge technologies in order to explore, exploit, and expand the formal and conceptual boundaries of clay within contemporary art.

Undergraduate Program

Beginning ceramics courses focus on fundamental forming techniques with attention to the specific craft each ÅÝܽÊÓƵapp brings to their work. There is a rotation of subjects within the Intermediate courses. These can include Mold-making & Casting, Glaze & Surface, Large-Scale Building, and Figurative Ceramics. By the advanced levels, undergraduates will develop their own specific lines of inquiry, guided by the area’s faculty and technical staff.

Graduate Program

Our nationally ranked Master of Fine Arts degree is an idea-centered program encouraging broad media exploration, in-depth projects and engagement with theoretical and cultural issues.

The program encourages our graduate ÅÝܽÊÓƵapps to take advantage of excellent private studio space, technical facilities and the opportunity to teach. Graduate ÅÝܽÊÓƵapps receive focused, individual attention in their studio work from professionally active research and teaching faculty. In their first year, graduate ÅÝܽÊÓƵapps work closely with faculty as graduate assistants, often helping in their courses and gain experience to teach independently. In their studio work and pedagogy,  ÅÝܽÊÓƵapps are integral to the area’s mission for delivering contemporaneous content.

Degrees / Ways to Study

To study ceramics at USF, ÅÝܽÊÓƵapps can pursue the following undergraduate and graduate studio art degrees at the School of Art & Art History.

Area Faculty

John Byrd, Associate Professor in Ceramics
Phone: 813.974.2360 | Email: byrd@usf.edu

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