Course Syllabus

BARRY UNIVERSITY

 

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

COURSE SYLLABUS

 

ART 141 02 BASIC HANDBUILDING

Summer 2018

TH 8:30-12, FA122

 

Professor: Bryan Hiveley

305-725-1764 / bhiveley@barry.edu

Office Hours:

Friday 2-4pm

 

Course Description:

Introduction to clay as an art medium, using traditional handbuilding techniques and basic glazing and firing processes.

 

Relationship of Course to University Mission: In keeping with the Mission of Barry University, this course promotes diversity and inclusion through the cultivation of the student’s artistic skills in the development and creation of individual, unique ceramic works culminating in the final project which reflects all of the student’s accumulated knowledge and skills. The course cultivates a global perspective through student research of previous artists from a variety of cultural and historical periods.  Through this exploration of previous artists’ work and attentiveness to each student’s individual and unique creative solutions, this course fosters diversity and respect for self and others.  

 

Studio ART PROGRAM Objectives/ Expected Outcomes that apply to this course:

Objective 1 – (Composition): Students will acquire knowledge to create unified, balanced visual compositions exhibiting an understanding of the principles and elements of art.

Objective 2 – (Art Media): Students will exhibit competency utilizing a range of art materials and techniques.

Objective 3 (5) – (Art Vocabulary) – Students will develop the language skills and art vocabulary necessary to discuss and critique creative work.

 

Course Objectives:

Students should develop a basic understanding of:

• Ceramics as art meduim and its place in art history
• Ceramic handbuilding techniques including pinching, coiling, carving and slab building
• Ceramic surface treatments used to enhance and complete clay forms including texture, slip, stain, underglaze and glaze
• Ceramic firing processes and their relationship to clay forms and surface treatments

 

Learning Outcomes:

Students will learn:

• To work with clay in its different stages from soft and wet, to leather hard, to bone dry, to bisque ware and finally to glaze ware or a related state of completion.
• To use surface treatments to unify, compliment, and complete forms to be aesthetically pleasing.
• To use ceramic and art terminology to discuss and critique their work and the work of other student

 

 

 

Learning Methods:

This is a studio course. Students should learn by actively producing assignments both in class and outside of class. They should also learn by observing the ceramic works of other artists in person at galleries and museums, in print, or on-line. Ceramic terminology and concepts should be learned through listening to assignment introductory lectures and participating in daily critiques. Students must take notes during lectures and demonstrations so that they are able to fulfill assignment requirements.

 

 

Attendance Policy:

The College of Arts and Sciences adheres to the following attendance policy: A total of 6 class hours of absence will result in withdrawal with W, WP, or WF if within the designated withdrawal period, or with an automatic F if not. It is the student's responsibility to initiate the withdrawal during the designated withdrawal period. Otherwise, an F will be issued at the end the term.

Do not schedule appointments for advising, doctor visits, work, airport pick-ups etc. during class time. Excuse from class for extreme emergencies will be given at the instructor’s discretion. Excessive absences and tardiness during a specific assignment will affect your grade on that assignment as well as your final grade.

Withdrawal Procedure:

It is the student’s responsibility to initiate official withdrawal if you stop attending class after the drop/add period. Faculty members are not required to withdraw you from the course unless you initiate it and complete the required form. Withdrawing students must pick up the form at the Registrar’s office, get it signed, and return it to the Registrar’s themselves. (Faculty can but are not required to withdraw students who never show up to a class.)

 

Fall 2017 Withdrawal Schedule for grades

Student Category	Date	Grade Earned
Undergraduate		W WP or WF

 

 

Academic Dishonesty Policy:

Cheating and Plagiarism

1. Cheating is defined as the attempt, successful or not, to give or obtain aid and/or information by illicit means in meeting any academic requirements, including examinations or art projects.
2. Plagiarism is defined as the use, without proper acknowledgment, of the ideas, phrases, sentences, images or larger units of discourse from another writer, speaker, composer, artist, image-maker, or photographer.

 

Students are expected to know and abide by the policy as stated in the university catalogue and student handbook.

 

In art you are legally in danger of copyright infringement if you copy or borrow all or part of any image or object covered by national or international copyright laws regardless of whether or not you are using the same art media to create your artwork. Even if an image is legally within the public domain, it can still be considered cheating or plagiarism for you to borrow it to use within your own work as per the discretion of the professor. Whenever you are confused about what is ethical or acceptable use of any visual source, always discuss your concerns or confusion with the instructor.

 

Disability Statement:

Students with documented special learning needs may want to contact the Barry University Office of Services for Students with Disabilities 305-899-3489.

 

All Barry University students are expected to behave according to accepted norms that ensure a climate wherein all can exercise their right to learn.  Such norms are set forth in the undergraduate catalogue under College of Arts and Sciences Guidelines for Student Conduct and Academic Responsibility.  Please be sure that you have read and understood that section.  No faculty member will tolerate classroom behavior that violates these norms.  Such behavior will be grounds for withdrawal from the class, judicial proceedings, or failure of the course.  If warranted, students engaging in such behavior will be removed from class by security personnel and may be required to undergo counseling.

 

Cell phones can be extremely distracting and disruptive during class time. They must be turned off and put away during class time except when allowed as a classroom tool or to listen to music while working on a project. No texting, checking emails, or even looking at the time on your phone. Put the phone away, pay attention and wear a watch if you are concerned about the time. If you repeatedly violate this policy, your next grade will be reduced by as much as 5%.

 

IPods and other personal music devices are only allowable during lab time in the studio or classroom. Whenever you are using them, the volume needs to be low enough that you can hear the professor in a normal speaking voice and no one else can hear your music. You are not permitted to wear earbuds or headphones during class time. If you insist on wearing them it will affect your class participation grade.

 

Course Requirements:

These requirements and all due dates are subject to change upon the professor’s oral notice in class or written notice via email. All students are responsible for keeping their Barry email accounts in working order and for reading and responding to emails from the professor in a timely manner.

 

The course is composed of 4 assignments each equal in worth and averaged for your final grade.

Project 1                                  26%                Outcomes addressed: 1,2, and 3

Project 2                                 15%                 Outcomes addressed: 1,2, and 3

Project 3                                  15%                 Outcomes addressed: 1,2, and 3                                                                         

Participation                            24%                 Outcomes addressed: 1,2, and 3                                

Quizzes/sketches/paper             20%              Outcomes addressed: 1,2, and 3        

 

Students must do the following:

• Purchase all materials on their materials list and have them ready for use at all times useless notified otherwise
• Use a sketchbook to develop their ideas for their projects and bring the sketchbooks to all class sessions.
• Work on their assignments during class hours as well as during open studio lab hours outside of class time. Students who do not do their work on time and finish their assignments outside of class as directed, will not pass the course.
• Complete all assignments by the beginning of class on the specified due dates
• Participate in class discussions and critiques
• Save all of their work for the duration of the course, for periodic presentations and reviews.

 

Students must pay attention to studio signs and observe studio rules including but not limited to the following:

• Follow all safety procedures
• Help maintain the ceramic studio so that it remains a safe and clean environment
• Only use equipment that has been explained and demonstrated to you in class. Handbuilding students should not be using the potters’ wheels unless they are also enrolled in a Potter’s Wheel class.
• Students are responsible for the cost of repair or replacement of department tools and equipment that are lost or damaged during their use, if the student is acting carelessly or recklessly.
• Broken and/or damage work might be graded at the professor’s discretion but will not be fired.
• Only work executed for this course, by students in this course, may be fired in Barry’s kilns.
• Work that is improperly made, glazed, or cleaned will not be fired.
• Each Student is responsible for making sure his or her work is thoroughly dried and placed in the proper location for it to be loaded into the kiln and fired before the final critique. If your work is extremely fragile, you can request to meet with Juliana when she is loading the kiln, to load your own work.
• Every reasonable effort will be made in the handling of student work, but ceramics is a fragile medium and Barry University and its faculty and staff are not responsible for the damage or disappearance of your work or tools.

 

Grading:

• Because ceramic art is developed in stages, projects will be graded twice: first on the due date for the finished greenware, and second after the work has been glaze fired and/or completed. All grades will be averaged for your final grade in the course.
• Unfinished assignments count as “0” points.
• Any work missed due to absences, personal or professional obligations, or athletic events must be made up prior to the next assignment deadline.
• For each of your grades, your grade will be reduced 5% for each absence, and .5% each time you are late during that grading period.
• The maximum possible points for work turned in late will be reduced by 10% (one class session late) to 20% (2 class sessions or more late).
• Late and/or unfinished assignments will not be included in group critiques but will be critiqued orally by request during office hours.
• Sketches for each project that does not have sketches for the start of the project 10% will be taken off your final grade.
• Your positive attitude and cooperation in maintaining an orderly studio facility will also affect your grade.

 

In addition to the requirements outlined above, evaluations will be made on the following basis: completion of projects including the fulfillment of assignment objectives through quality, effort, craftsmanship, a strong work ethic, and creativity.

Final grades will be averaged according to this scale:

93 - 100%        =          A                                  77 - 79%          =          C+

90 - 92%          =          A-                                 70 - 76%          =          C

87 - 89%          =          B+                                60 - 69%          -           D

83 - 86%          =          B                                  Below 60%      =          F

80 - 82%          =          B-

 

Required Reading:

Students are required to subscribe to cfileonline.org and read the weekly ceramics newsletters in preparation for class discussions.

 

Students are required to use the Barry University Library - Art-Ceramics and Sculpture Study Guide: http://eguides.barry.edu/c.php?g=392869&p=2668733  to become familiar with Barry’s Ceramics resources.

 

Students are required to check out at least one Barry Library book for each of their projects that relates to their project. Bring the book to class to discuss the relationship between the book and your work.

 

Students are encouraged to read and reference the ceramics magazines kept in the classroom, to look at ceramics online, as well as to go see ceramics in galleries and museums. Specific assignments for research or visits to galleries, lectures or museums may be made during the semester.

 

Class Schedule including Assignments and Critique Dates:

Critiques and/or Reviews will follow each of the units of study listed below.

This schedule is subject to change upon oral notification.

Week	Class	Date	Assignment
1	1 & 2	Tuesday 5/8 Thursday 5/10	Introduction to Syllabus & Materials     Introduction to the Principles and Elements of Art Have Clay and tools for class on Thursday.      Project 1 - Jomon Pot Introduction lecture/demo
2	3 & 4	Tuesday 5/15 Thursday 5/17	Project 1 Project, Ten sketches of Jomon pot due Tuesday at the start of class, please upload image of sketches to Canvas by the end of the day. Continue coiling project 1 Thursday Take photo of progress and upload to Canvas
3	5 & 6	Tuesday 5/22 Thursday 5/24	Thursday complete project 1 form - leather hard projects due covered in plastic, Upload image to Canvas by the end of day on Thursday Lesson on connecting the forms & introduction to applying slip and underglaze while unifying the form with surface treatment. Star Project 2. Bring in 10 sketches on Tuesday. Upload progress to canvas
4	7 & 8	Tuesday 5/29 Thursday 5/31	Project 1 - Critique 1 Paper 1 Due at the beginning of class. Work on tile project and finished with low-fire colored glaze and stain in an electric kiln. Upload image to Canvas. Roll enough slabs for all of the Tile pieces, and allow them to dry to the consistency they need to be before carving and texturing surface. Finish with slip, stain and glaze.
5	9 & 10	Tuesday 6/5 Thursday 6/7	Pinch Pot project Bring in 10 sketches for review.                          Finish tile project. Upload images to canvas.
6	11 & 12	Tuesday 6/12 Thursday 6/14	Glazing and finishing all projects & studio clean-up LAST WEEK FOR LOW-FIRE GLAZE FIRINGS IN THE ELECTRKILNS Final critique and studio clean-up

 

 

 

MATERIALS/SUPPLIES

Please note the following:

 

*Starred materials are required.

 

The fees you pay for this class cover basic studio tools and materials including glazes and firing. You must buy a supplementary tool kit in the bookstore, or purchase those tools elsewhere.

 

Students are expected to purchase all materials on their materials list by the beginning of the third class and have them ready for use at all times unless notified otherwise.

 

Ceramics tools:

*2 - 25lb. Bags of clay (from the Barry bookstore)

*1 - needle tool

*1 - wooden knife

1 – fettling knife

*1 - sponge

*1 - or more metal ribs

1 - wire cutting tool

*1 – loop trimming tool

1 - rasp

*2 -3 flat soft haired paint brushes - 1/2", 1"

Bamboo paint brushes or other pointed soft haired paint brushe

Silverware – metal forks (Must Have this!), spoons

Large plastic garbage bags (clear or transparent is best)

 

Hardware store tools can also be useful in the clay studio:

Sure foam blades

Nails

2 part epoxy glue - liquid

2 part epoxy glue – putty

 

 

General Art Tools:

Sketchbook – 9 x 12” (hardbound recommended)

**Pencil, pen or fine tip marker to draw, make patterns and take notes.

White and/or Black Plastic Erasers

Box or bag to carry/hold your tools (Art Bins and tackle boxes work well.)

Smock or apron

An old towel

Lock for optional lockers

Comfortable shoes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fine Arts

Course: Art 141 01 Basic Handbuilding

Summer 2018

Fine Arts Learning Goals	1.    To explore visual or performing arts within historical contexts or from creative viewpoints. 2.    To explore and understand the principles of artistic expression and the creative process.
Outcome(s)/Assignment	To assess these goals students will: 1.     Throughout the semester: research a minimum of five published contemporary American ceramic artists whose work inspires you   intellectually, aesthetically, emotionally and/or technically. 2.     Write a 3 page paper describing and analyzing the work (or a piece of work) of each artist providing as much background and technical information as possible including: ·       An accurate drawing or color photo copy of each artist’s work ·       Who made the work? ·       Where was the work was made? ·       What is the title and dimensions of the work? ·       What type of clay, surface treatment and firing was used? ·       Why was the work made? Was it made to be functional, sculptural, and/or aesthetically pleasing? ·       Also write an explanation describing why you were drawn to this work. Was it intellectually, aesthetically, emotionally and/or technically? 3.     Make 10 drawings of your proposal for a thoughtful, well-crafted, original ceramic piece inspired by one of the artists. 4.     Transform your selected drawing into a 3-dimensional form. 5.     Prepare an oral introduction for your project to be presented at the critique. Satisfactory demonstration of this outcome will be indicated by a score of 3 or higher on the assignment rubric.
Rubric	The rubric for this assignment is attached.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ART 140 02                                          BASIC HANDBUILDING                                               FALL 2017

STUDENT CLASS # __________________________________________TOTAL POINTS:   _______________

STUDENT NAME ____________________________________________AVERAGE SCORE _______________

 

	5	4	3	2	1
PART I: Proposal Written paper identifying 5 influential artists	Identification is thorough and appropriate including all pertinent information (artist’s name, title, date and/or period the work was produced, dimensions of the work, type of clay, type and range of firing, and surface treatments, and   techniques used. used, dimensions of the work).		Identification is sufficient with some errors or omissions in pertinent information		Identification is poor with significant deficiencies in identification.
Proposal – 10 Drawings	Drawings reflect a thoughtful visual investigation and interpretation of the historical form.		Drawings reflect a sufficient visual investigation and interpretation of the historical form.		Drawings reflect a weak visual investigation and interpretation of the historical form.
PART II: Finished form Reflecting inspiration of a significant contemporary ceramic work	Work reflects an outstanding, thoughtful, inspired, and creative interpretation of a contemporary ceramic work.		Work reflects a somewhat thoughtful interpretation of a contemporary l ceramic work.		Work is a copy of a historical ceramic work and/or reflects little or no understanding of the contemporary piece.
Use of the formal properties of The Principles (unity, formal or informal balance, rhythm, variety, movement, and emphasis/focal point) and Elements (line, shape, form, texture, color, space) of Art	The work is visually unified and well balanced with all of the   Principles and Elements of Art working in harmony.		The work is somewhat unified and balanced. The   Principles and Elements of Art working somewhat in harmony.           .   The Elements of Art: Line, shape, form, space, texture, mass, value Drawing media and techniques   Craftsmanship		The work is poorly unified and/or notbalanced.The     Principles and Elements of Art are not working in harmony.               .   The Elements of Art: Line, shape, form, space, texture, mass, value Drawing media and techniques   Craftsmanship
Craftsmanship – Use of materials, building technique and glaze/underglaze application.	The work is well crafted and reflects the same craftsmanship and sensibility of the historical piece.		The work somewhat well-crafted and somewhat reflects the same craftsmanship and   and sensibility of the historical piece.		Craftsmanship is poor and the work does not reflect the same sensibility as the historical piece.
Creativity, complexity and aesthetic merit	The work is overall excellent, showing a high level of creativity, originality, complexity, and aesthetic merit.		The work acceptable, showing some creativity, originality, complexity, and aesthetic merit.		The work unacceptable, showing little creativity, originality, complexity, and aesthetic merit.