Handbuilding and Ritual in Ceramics

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This course offers non-traditional and experimental way to explore making art with clay, everyday found objects and other 3D mediums. Students combine ceramics with mixed forms to develop art making as a ritual with personal or social concerns. Students learn the relationship between clay, human experience, and nature. In exploring traditional hand-building, and new ways of working with clay plus other materials, students explore the contemporary concept of ritual, through installation and performance. Kiln firing will not be used in this course. Course offered online.