I explore alongside students incorporating our collective experience and diverse cultural backgrounds in order.
Ceramics teaching philosophy.
Investigating and working with ceramics allows for an enduring understanding of the power and potential of clay in sculpture the paradoxical nature of tactile immediacy and permanency inherent in this medium.
My ceramics classroom is a construction of studio practice discussion lecture and professional development.
While specific technical concerns must be addressed the way in which a.
Teaching philosophy when creating courses and new syllabi i keep in mind accessibility for students outside of the studio art program.
Showing students methods to use appropriate materials and think creatively in their own fields of study.
Students from all disciplines seem drawn to the ceramic arts realizing an almost basic urge to form and manipulate raw clay with their own hands.
I approach art making with the same interdisciplinary style as i do my teaching.
Statement of teaching philosophy creating an object from clay can be a mesmerizing notion.
As an artist and educator i care deeply about the value of an education in the arts.
Although my work is primarily ceramic sculpture in nature i explore and research concepts of gender sexuality and social responsibilities through.
With this approach i have developed a course at sweet briar college called the brick.