Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Students will be able to:
Research and develop advanced level creative ways to solve ceramic process problems using a variety of strategies for making ceramics.
Create personal ceramic artwork, which demonstrates an advanced level of ideas, processes, materials, and techniques associated with hand building and wheel throwing processes.
Ask meaningful questions, identify ideas and issues, and be able to actively participate in a critical dialogue about ceramics with others using advanced level vocabulary.
Understand, interpret, and appreciate ceramics of the past and the present from different cultures to initiate a lifelong process of expanding knowledge on the diversity of perspectives in the human experience.
Develop, through the experience of making and studying ceramics, an awareness of the relationship of human beings to the physical world, and our positive and negative impact.
Employ self-critiquing skills to demonstrate autonomous expression in ceramics, while recognizing the standards and definitions already established by both contemporary and historical works of art from different cultures.
Develop a reasonably cohesive body of artwork that is presentable to galleries, school programs, art organizations and to professional artists.

1) Create ceramic works that demonstrate the experience of a variety oftechnical skills, coupled with an awareness of the inherent characteristics ofdifferent ceramic processes.2) Build upon current skill sets with the intent of working towards aprofessional proficiency.3) Practice safe studio practices in regards to the handling of tools, chemicalsand machinery within a communal studio space.4) Utilize the necessary vocabulary specific to ceramics when participating inclass critiques and discussions.5) Assess and self-critique personal work to strategize creative solutions.6) Develop more sophisticated personal work with an awareness of historicaland contemporary artists working in ceramics.

Complete and present individual work within a professional studio critique.Understand the vocabulary and concepts necessary to engage within a studio environment.Demonstrate appropriate techniques in middle-advanced level ceramics and studio habits beyond the classroom studio.Demonstrate ability to meet deadlines with proper time management and craftsmanship.

1. Visual awareness and ability to see.2. Methodologies for designing and creating a ceramic work, which may include hand building and wheel throwing techniques, and the use of plaster molds.3. Challenges of translating vision to form specific to ceramics.4. Language of ceramics and the qualities that distinguish it from other three-dimensional media.5. Ceramics in history.6. Options and possibilities for original work.7. Evaluating ceramics.8. Safety.9. Environmental concerns related to proper recycling or disposal ofwaste.10. Non-traditional media and combined techniques (e.g., paint, metal,wood, glass).SKILLS AND METHODOLOGIES1. Demonstrate ability to successfully create personally directed ceramicartwork.2. Investigate process and alternative solutions for creating complexforms.3. Demonstrate sound glazing techniques such as dip, dunk, pouring,sponging, brushing and spraying that is appropriate for the body of work.4. Demonstrate familiarity with historical styles by comparing ceramicworks to those of other periods.