The Crafts program provides a creative studio environment for students interested in working with ceramics and fiber design. Each student is exposed to concepts and techniques ranging from the traditional to the contemporary.  

Special focus on the development of a personal creative voice and sound work habits creates students capable of sustaining themselves in this creative field. Technical skills taught in ceramics include hand-forming techniques, mold making, glaze making, and kiln firing.  

All students have access to well-equipped studios that includes 15 pottery wheels, a clay mixer, a slab roller, a ball-mill, 3 electric kilns and one gas kiln, various looms, paper-making equipment, as well as everything needed for batik and dying.  

Ceramics Focus: Hand-building techniques including slab and coil construction, wheel throwing, various surface treatments, glaze-making, and kiln firing. Employment opportunities include teaching, freelance, production-design, product design in addition to preparation for continued studies in graduate school.  

Fiber Design Focus: On and off-loom weaving techniques, paper-making, batik, and fabric dying. For students interested in making a living from their crafts, whether by selling work directly or for pursuing a graduate degree and teaching, one of the best ways to begin is to continuously develop an individual body of work while a student. Our program provides around the clock access to studio space and abundant materials so that students can develop the work habits necessary for a career as a freelance artist/craftsperson, teacher, product designer, or for continued studies in graduate school. 

$25 per credit hour fee will be applied to all studio art courses to provide essential technology resources, class materials, equipment upkeep, and support for visiting artists and lecturers across all concentrations.

Art Undergraduate Student Handbook