Bachelors in Ceramics

MICA's Ceramics Department provides a highly individualized course of study within an atmosphere of strong community. It strives to foster the development of a student's personal voice through engagement with the media as a point of departure towards experimentation and exploration. The ceramics curriculum supports the development of technical skills within a framework of innovation and interdisciplinary thinking. Students are involved with the traditions and contemporary trends in the ceramic medium and actively engaged in critical inquiry. Immersed in this rich intellectual environment, students understand themselves within the landscape of contemporary art and culture, and through the study and research of ceramics, they learn and explore its incredibly varied role in fine and applied arts, industry, and design. The development of confidence in one's own ideas is stressed as the critical motive that drives the means and methods of making meaningful work. Students bring their strong personal convictions to class to learn from each other and the College's resident and visiting artists.