Ceramics

Ceramics is integral to the overall three-dimensional learning experience at TAMUCC. Whether your goal is to become a dedicated ceramic artist or an interdisciplinary creative, expect to be involved with a vibrant and energetic group of peers and to gain a solid foundation in the skills of hand-building, throwing, clay and glaze mixing, application, and kiln firing. TAMUCC clay students work closely with faculty and grad students as they learn about the traditions and trends of the larger contemporary art field. Students are encouraged to let their creative ideas lead them to clay and non-clay materials, techniques, and presentation formats that will best express an informed point of view. Student opportunities for firing, demonstrating, and selling in and around Corpus Christi are possibilities each semester. 

Undergraduate Offerings 

• ARTS 2346 – Ceramics I   
• ARTS 3324 – Wheel Throwing   
• ARTS 3325 – Handbuilt Ceramic Techniques   
• ARTS 4324 – Advanced Ceramics  
• ARTS 4391 – Topics in Studio Art   

Graduate Offerings 

• ARTS 5191 – Graduate Professional Practices Seminar   
• ARTS 5312 – MFA Studio in Art: Ceramics   
• ARTS 5320 – Graduate Critique Seminar  
• ARTS 5391 – MFA Seminar in Art   
• ARTS 5394 – Directed Research   
• ARTS 5395 – MFA Thesis   
• ARTS 5397 – Graduate Teaching Assistant Practicum   
• ARTS 5398 – MFA Project   

Ceramic Facility 

Ceramics is well equipped with 17 pottery wheels including Brent, Shimpo, Skutt, and Lockerbies. Clay and glazes are mixed in-house. There is a Soldner mixer for clay making and a Bluebird pugmill for pugging clay. Other small equipment includes a Brent slab roller, a wall extruder with dies for solid and hollow extrusion, a slip mixer, a mold table for draining, air fixtures for pneumatic work, drills for mixing up glaze, heat guns, and torches. The department also keeps a well-stocked chemical inventory complete with frits and commercial stains. 

The kiln yard is semi-enclosed with electric and gas kilns. The electric offerings include two Skutts, a cone 10 Naberthem, and a frontloading Alpine kiln. The gas options include an Alpine downdraft, an Olsen updraft, and a soda kiln. There are two portable raku kilns and one small test kiln. 

Ceramics Faculty

 Undergraduate Works