Ceramics Teachers At Byu

At the center of a circle of local art teachers byu ceramics studio manager james robertson sat at a wheel demonstrating how to teach students to form a clay cylinder with uniform thickness no easy task for first time ceramicists.

Ceramics teachers at byu.

Close menu expand menu university apply about byui contact financial aid president s office registration university relations. Students have access to 9 electric kilns 2 down draft gas kilns a shuttle kiln a gas fired raku kiln an updraft gas kiln a wood. Expand menu living. Brian has worked to maintain and expand the facilities and opportunities for the sculpture and ceramics programs in the byu department of art.

Participants workshopped ceramics techniques and networked with byu professors. The byu idaho department of art provides an aesthetic conceptual and technical foundation in the visual arts for students who possess a wide range of interests experiences and abilities. Brian served as a craft consultant with the byu egypt excavation project in 2014 and is currently in collaboration on a related publication. We prepare students for professional careers graduate school and facilitate personal enrichment and lifelong learning.

The on campus workshop series resumes in june with instruction in drawing intaglio printmaking mixed media monotyping and screenprinting. Introduction to ceramics for non majors basic throwing hand building skills vocabulary and technique for non art majors including lecture demonstrations lab time slide lectures some art historical material. I loved interacting with lively and vital teachers and artists who have many of the same goals for their students as we have in the department of art said professor brian christensen coordinator of byu s 3d studio area. At byu she runs the student teaching program for art education as well as byu jumpst art a community arts program for k 12 students.

Tara creates ceramic and mixed media art which has been widely shown in a number of exhibitions. The second most popular ceramic arts and ceramics degree that people earn is a master s degree which goes to show a focus on higher learning. Tara s research interests include preservice teacher mentoring elementary art teaching and arts integration. For example a ceramics teacher will gain more from collaborating with a ceramics teacher from a different school than from working with her in school colleague who teaches oil painting.

Expand menu academics academic schedule advising colleges and departments catalog learning model online courses and programs testing center tutoring. Photo courtesy of megan morrison. The most prevailing ceramic arts and ceramics degree earned was a bachelor s degree and it also has the widest range of school possibilities as well. Byu rachel wadham byu and molly neeves researcher.