Diploma in Ceramic Arts
Distance and off site only
Offsite = where a group has been formed and facilities and lectures are provided to teach the Studio Workshop components of the course.
Distance = where individual students are supported by approved local practitioners.
In both systems the Glaze, Drawing and Theory & History of Art papers are provided from the Otago Campus.
The Diploma in Ceramic Arts is taken over 2 years full time. It may also be completed part time. The diploma is made up of Level 6 papers.
- Workshop Diary, design, colour theory, decoration, terminology, sources of imagery. Developing a personal style.
- Clays, plasticity, colourants, slips, oxide texts, material melts, heatwork, pyrometric cones, underglaze, overglaze, mixing clay bodies, combining materials. Introduction to clay work including - pinching, coiling, slab, slipcast, throwing, turing, handles, spouts, lids. Extrusions, large composite forms, drape & press moulds, use of non-ceramic materials, asymmetry.
Drying, Bisque, Glaze application, primitive firing, decorating techniques. Majolica, focus on texture, wood & salt firing. - Kiln Operation: Electric, Raku, Gas Stoneware, Kiln Stacking, Kiln Furniture, atmosphere. Kiln construction & repair. Introduction to formulation, chemicals & materials, changing the flux in a glaze, glaze testing, glaze defects, surface development.
- Display, documentation, workshop practice, production costing. Photography, digital camera recording, workshop design, publicity, promotion.
- Drawing: point, line, tone, shade, proportion, perspective, drawing systems, terminology, life drawing.
- History of Ceramics.
Currently available at:
- Auckland Studio Potters
- Waikato Society of Potters
- Wellington Potters
- Claytech Canterbury