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Description:
An introduction to throwing on the potter's wheel, and its historical and contemporary significance. This course will introduce the process of wedging clay, centering a pot, pulling a wall, shaping processes, and trimming techniques to complete well balanced forms on the potter's wheel. In addition to gaining expertise in wheel-throwing, students will examine, discuss, critique and write about the techniques, tools, ceramic terminology and processes of historical and contemporary thrown clay vessels. Students will use ceramic vocabulary in verbal and written class critiques.
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Prerequisite:
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Corequisite:
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Advisory:
Advisory: This course is included in the Ceramic Wheel Throwing family of activity courses.
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Repeatability:
Not Repeatable.
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Hours:
3 hours lecture per week, 3 hours lab per week. 72 hours total per quarter.
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Foothill GE Area:English
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Transferability:
Both
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Transfer GE:
Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at:
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Foothill Transfer GE Guide
Department Note:
TO CONTACT AN INSTRUCTOR VIA EMAIL: lastnamefirstname@foothill.edu
For more information about the Art Program, contact: Hilary Gomes at gomeshilary@foothill.edu or call 650.949.7585. The website can be found at: https://foothill.edu/art. For information on how to clear a prerequisite please go to: https://foothill.edu/reg/prereqs.html
