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This course will enable the student to design and create handbuilt pottery according to the principles of design, and work with various techniques of finishing, glazing, and firing. Students will learn the basic principles of three-dimensional design by studying the shapes of utilitarian as well as decorative objects in their immediate environment. In addition, they will explore pottery styles of such non-western cultures as Japan, China, the Mayans of ancient Mexico, the Yoruba of Nigeria, and the Ndebele of Zimbabwe, as well as pottery styles of the ancient Greeks and the Navaho and Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest. (Offered every semester.) |