Clay Makerspace

with Kylie Lockwood
CERAMICS 657 001 | 3 credits | $200 lab fee
In-Person: January 5–18, 2025
Every day during the session (including weekends) 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m EST

This course provides students of all levels with the opportunity to work on their own projects and to improve their ceramics skills. Students will have access to all materials in the Ceramic Studio, and can choose from a variety of firing options, including the electric kiln, gas kiln, or raku. Demonstrations will include hand building, vessel creation, construction methods, proper firing methods, and encourage intermediate understanding of drying times, methods for building sound pieces, techniques for minimizing loss, and studio safety. Taking inspiration from historical movements and contemporary ceramicists, students may engage in coil and slab building, slip casting, have time on the potter’s wheel, and practice a variety of surface design techniques. Assignments are designed to build understanding of each method, and students will conceive projects that reflect their interests. Instructors will be available to help facilitate individual, collaborative, and interdisciplinary projects.

Kylie Lockwood, Left foot poised between movement and repose, 2019, Porcelain, unfired clay and nail polish, 8 x 9.5 x 5.5 ins.

Kylie Lockwood (b. 1983, Detroit, Michigan) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reconciles the experience of living in a female body with the Western history of sculpture. She received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and her MFA from Hunter College in New York. She has been an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, Offshore Residency, Caldera and Contemporary Artist Center. Lockwood completed a permanent public sculpture in collaboration with the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oregon Lewis Integrative Science Building. She is represented by Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI and her work has been exhibited at PS1 MOMA, Long Island City, NY; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, NY; Lord Ludd, Philadelphia, PA; Synchrotron Radiation Center, Stoughton, WI; Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN; Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Popps Packing, Detroit, MI. Lockwood currently lives and works in Hamtramck, Michigan.