Section A Meets 2/7/2013 to 5/2/2013 on Thursday from 6:30 PM to 9:45 PM.

This class is for beginner and advanced students alike. Students focus on individual goals including but not limited to creating a cohesive body of work, learning new techniques or expanding on familiar ones, photographing your artwork, entering national exhibitions, building a portfolio for graduate school; whatever each student needs to work on to improve as a ceramic artist. Beginners will be introduced to basic hand building and wheel skills and later encouraged to create a series of work based on their aesthetic research.

Section A Meets 1/23/2013 to 5/1/2013 on Wednesday from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM.

This hands-on course, geared for the artist, jeweler, architect or designer, introduces the principles of three-dimensional thinking through small scale sculptural processes. Students use metal as the primary material to investigate a variety of techniques in both steel and non-ferrous metal. The safe and proper methods of oxyacetylene torch welding and soldering, as well as various forming and finishing techniques, are covered. Students may create projects as maquettes for larger works not yet realized, as wearable objects, or as diminutive sculptures in their own right. Emphasis is placed on revealing the unique expressive potential of sculptural forms in metal and gaining creative insight into the metalworking process.Note: No class on March 20.