Crafts curriculum
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The Crafts concentration
focuses on two areas of emphasis, ceramics and fiber design. Art majors may
focus on one area or the other or combine the two media in their studio exploration.
Craft majors who earn a BFA are prepared to continue to graduate school, enter
industry, or open their own studio with the conceptual approach, the design
skills, and the techniques acquired in this degree program.
Ceramics
Ceramics curriculum builds upon the foundation courses in three-dimensional
design and gives students the opportunity to expand beyond the tradition of
ceramics. Beginning ceramics students master handbuilding, throwing techniques,
and surface decoration while developing strong craftsmanship. Advanced ceramics
students gain expertise in glaze-making and various kinds of firing processes.
Trips to dig indigenous clay in the hills of Mississippi and the re-creation
of a Native-American pit firing are special activities with enthusiastic participation.
Fiber Design
Fiber studio courses present opportunities to explore both structural processes
such as off-loom and on-loom weaving, papermaking, and book arts as well as
surface design techniques in dye-painting, printing, and resist processes. The
fiber curriculum is designed to allow beginning fiber students an introduction
to all the textile processes so that they may concentrate on one or two areas
in the advanced courses. Recently, an interesting component of the fiber program
has been the design, creation, and installation of site-specific fiber sculpture
on the DSU campus by students working in groups.
Students in the crafts curriculum are presented opportunities for field trips
to museums and artists studios and encounter guest lecturers who speak about
their involvement in the field. Both areas educate students on the historical
and contemporary ideas and forms in ceramics and fiber. Crafts majors are expected
to complete a Seminar and Thesis course under the guidance of a studio instructor
and exhibit the final studio work in a Senior Thesis exhibition in the Wright
Art Center Gallery.
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