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Shape your education to suit your passion
YSU’s Ceramics area is part of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Studio Art – Interdisciplinary Studio Art degree. Whether you’re looking to build your career as a fine or craft artist, independent or production designer, or tile, mold, or model maker, our ceramics programs lets you to shape your education to suit your passion. You’ll be able to fashion a part of your curriculum in the specific direction of ceramics that interests you.
Discover more about our B.F.A. in Studio Art - Interdisciplinary Studio Art Degree
Details about the Interdisciplinary Studio Art major, including a degree overview, classes, in which you’ll enroll, and sequence of your coursework.
Facilities
YSU’s Ceramics area offers one of the largest facilities in the state, with open studio hours seven days a week. With over 6,000 square feet of studio space spanning two floors, the facilities include separate and completely equipped areas for wheel throwing, hand building, glaze mixing, mold making and slip casting, clay mixing, plaster work, and documenting artwork.
Various firing possibilities are available, with two internal kiln rooms and a gated and covered external kiln area. The ceramic studio also includes the following vented labs: a spray room, a fully stocked glaze lab, a clay mixing lab, and three kiln rooms that include computer controlled electric kilns, gas and atmospheric kilns with a pit firing area. Additional industry-standard technologies and equipment include 3D digital printing, laser cutters, and CNC mills.
- 250 lb capacity Soldner mixer
- Slip-O-Matic casting slip mixer
- Laguna spray booth
- Vantto Double Jar Ball Mill
- 235 sq. ft Glaze lab with multiple flex arm exhaust systems
- 215 sq. ft Designated Plaster area with multiple flex arm exhaust systems
- 288 sq. ft Vented spray room
- 395 sq. ft Stocked bulk materials room
- Electric gram scales
- Triple beam gram scales
- 350 lb. beam scale
- 16.5 cu. ft. Bailey oval electric kilns with Bartlett computerized controller(4)
- 10 cu. ft. Bailey electric kilns with Bartlett computerized controller (4)
- 3 cu. ft. Bailey electric kilns with Bartlett computerized controller (2)
- 2.3 cu. ft. manual electric kilns (Duncan and Skutt) (2)
- .5 cu. ft. Cress test electric kiln
- 50 cu. ft. Bailey 10 front loading electric kiln, with Bartlett computerized controller
- 40 cu. ft. Alpine gas kiln
- 20 cu. ft. Alpine gas kilns
- 4 cu. ft. Sprung Arch Raku kiln
- 30 cu. ft. Sprung Arch Atmospheric gas kiln Pit fire area
- Apple iMac computers with software (2 stations)
- Space and lighting for documenting finished work
- Library containing 20 years of ceramic magazines and miscellaneous art and ceramics books and videos
- Brent wheels (15)
- Brent SR-36 slab rollers (2)
- Bailey Extruders (2)
- Bailey System 3 Power Extruder
- Sand blasting cabinet
- Rosetta Technologies CerPrint 3500 Ceramic Decal Printer
- A variety of hand tools (ex. drills, grinders, heat guns)
Exhibition Spaces
When the time comes for you to display your work, you’ll have the opportunity to exhibit solo, group, or experimental work in the McDonough Museum of Art, Solomon Gallery, or our Student Project Gallery.
Meet our world-class Ceramics faculty
Our dedicated and professionally involved faculty are actively engaged in helping Interdisciplinary Studio Art students successfully transition into positions with national and regional creative industries or graduate programs.
Want to learn more?
We’re here to answer your questions and help you find your best path to your creative
future. To explore your options, contact Stephanie Waltman, Cliffe College Coordinator
of Admissions and Recruitment at 330-941-2346 or [email protected]
