How do we make ideas into things? In this class, students will examine ways to explore clay as a medium for describing what we see and experience—through close observation, both of what we encounter in the world and what's inside our heads. Presentations on contemporary craft artists and histories and demonstrations of methods and techniques will enhance individual explorations. Those with experience working with clay will have ample opportunity to build on their existing skills and newcomers to the medium will be given the basic technical skills to make their ideas take form with clay.Fine Arts Seminars are intended to broaden and clarify students' perspective on contemporary art practice. Each semester these seminars shift in focus and subject matter. Seminars may concentrate on art from the perspectives of art history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and so forth, or may take the form of a discipline-based critique focusing on the history, theory, and practice of painting, sculpture, and photography, among others.

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