视觉艺术Object 设计 Ceramics
Mold your 未来.
Capitalizing on 设计 Thinking, our courses immerse you in all aspects of ceramics from commercial application to studio artist. Our degree track adds real world action, pushes surface, focuses on production or narrative sculpture and inspires your creative voice throughout. What story will you tell?
Career opportunities include: studio owner/artist, teacher, serveware designer, glaze chemist, mold maker, ceramic technician/equipment designer, commercial ceramic supplier.
Important Dates
Portfolio Reviews
Check-in for each audition or portfolio review will be at Terry Concert Hall.
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For audition dates, learn more about the audition and portfolio review process.
WHY OBJECT DESIGN AT JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY?Craft with intent.
Intent causes change. With our emphasis on first-hand experience, you will participate in a variety of opportunities to develop knowledge in the field so you can find your place in the ceramic community before you graduate. Engaged problem solving, design thinking, exhibition opportunities, attendance at professional conferences, collaborative projects, and public outreach distinguishes your artistic voice from day one. 工作 with visiting artists and group projects develops your career network. 用它来生长 us.
BFA or BA with concentration in Object 设计Build your tomorrow, make a difference
The object design program is looking for students with a distinctive vision for their 未来. Nurturing the confidence and expertise to pursue a career in the arts is at the heart of the curriculum. Our majors, double-majors or minors get an exclusive educational experience that builds a contemporary understanding of art on a foundation of professional experience and traditional skills.
教师
Tiffany LeachProfessor of Art, Department Chair and Director of MFA in 视觉艺术
Tiffany is an educator, practicing artist and researcher in the field of ceramics. 专业 highlights include:
- Selected for the C.R.E.T.A. Rome artist residency in Rome, Italy
- Selected to present at NCECA in consecutive conferences and two Concurrent exhibitions
- Artwork selected for the DuBol Exhibition 国际 in Lille, France
- Acquisitions in corporate, private and university collections
- Presented research and chaired panel discussion at SECAC conferences
- Over 90 exhibitions, workshops and lectures at the regional, national and international 观众
Dana C. Tupa Associate Dean; Professor of Art in Ceramics
Dana is an educator, artist, sculptor, studio owner and administrator. 专业 highlights include:
- Award winning artwork responds to memory ephemerality
- Credited by American Quilt Society with 1st 粘土 exhibit of avant-garde art quilts
- Over 130 shows, workshops and lectures to regional and national 观众s
- Recipient of State Artist Grants, Purchase Prizes and Awards of Excellence
- Acquisitions in museums, public art, university and corporate collections
- Three-peat Concurrent Exhibitions at NCECA
- 20-year signed gallery artist
全球网络赌博平台的节目专业 & 未成年人
Our program is designed to give a strong foundation in technique with an exploration on content and forms. The Object 设计 degree track sets strong foundational skill building and work habit development that lead to good studio practice. You are given opportunities to develop your body of work in production or sculpture. 专业 connections are made with peers, faculty and visiting artists that continue far beyond the four years. You leave JU with an attitude of success, and confidence.
- Provides tools for perseverance in the field of ceramics, sculpture and glass
- One-on-one learning in small classroom settings
- Technique and skill building foundations
- 专业 get personal studio spaces
- Exposure to a broad number of artistic and academic experiences
学生工作
Art ScholarshipsWant a scholarship?
The Department of 视觉艺术 offers scholarships based on the creative merit and potential for growth you demonstrate with your portfolio. To be eligible, you have to create or have already created a portfolio, and you have to submit it either electronically or in person at one of our portfolio review s. Review our portfolio review dates, and then check out our tips on creating a digital portfolio that more than fulfills our requirements, plus how to save your portfolio as a PDF.
设施
Our facilities boast 14 Brent wheels, three hand-building stations, pugmill, Soldner 粘土 mixers, electric kiln room, gas kilns, raku kilns, woodkiln, sagger and pit-firing area, teaching collection gallery and a full glaze chemistry lab.
- Exposure to a broad number of artistic and academic experiences
- Award-winning faculty (multiple skill sets in 粘土, significant national exhibition records, public art experience and studio practices)
- 专业 get personal studio spaces
- Contemporary and traditional processes
- Liberal Arts context and class sizes capped at 12
- Pre-professional training at sophomore level (Foundations Capstone course)
- Three formal feedback reviews (sophomore, junior and senior levels)
- Capstone Senior Thesis project (speech/writing components, research and exhibition)
- Multiple opportunities to present research at the national level
- Learn to network the NCECA conference through annual attendance
访问ing Artists
We welcome visiting artists in ceramics to share their specialties in sculpture, functional wares, kiln knowledge and glaze processes.
约翰·奥立
Associate Professor of Ceramics at Jacksonville State University
John believes truth and insight into our own human nature can be revealed through the process of creating with our hands. His vessels and functional forms honor the tradition and familiarity of the domestic object in their ability to enrich lives through daily use
Taylor Robenalt
Artist and Educator
Taylor is an instructor at the Ringling College of Art and 设计. Her work has been exhibited in many high-profile national exhibitions, and she has participated in numerous artist residencies both domestically and abroad. Taylor is also the co-founder of a sculpture collective called Ceramic Sculpture 文化.
约翰·多诺万
Ceramic artist and Educator
After a twenty-one year career in higher-education, lead designer and potter John Donovan knows how to make 粘土 work. John has long been recognized for his award-winning ceramic sculpture (including receiving an honorable mention at the Third World Ceramic Biennale in Icheon, South Korea) and is represented by LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans and Zeitgeist Art Gallery in Nashville.
艾米·桑德斯
Studio artist
Amy’s earthenware vessels create a balance of form, texture and pattern with utility. She currently works as a studio artist, and conducts workshops across the United States.
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Visual Art 项目
The School of Art & 设计 offers several other programs of study. Learn more about the programs available at Jacksonville University.