Bennington College Ceramics

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Bennington college ceramics. Bennington potters handmade stoneware pottery favorites include bennington s famous trigger mug and our classic dinnerware sets. This course is intended for the beginning to intermediate ceramic student. These forms are as simple as taking the crudest base clay and making a simple utilitarian object without much. Ceramics food and community the college once again partnered with greater bennington interfaith community services to host the empty bowls event at mount anthony union middle school.
At bennington students work closely with faculty to design the content structure and sequence of their study and practice their plan taking advantage of resources inside and outside the classroom to pursue their work. As the bennington banner reported recently one public action aspect to the class is that several saturday workshops have been established for the community to come to the college and work on ceramic bowls for the future supper in that way the class will afford a chance for community members and students to sit down together and collaborate. Ceramics food and community november 9 2017 as part of faculty member yoko inoue s course social kitchen. In the ceramics area while focusing on the development of technical proficiency and rigorous material investigation students are encouraged to develop a dialog that.
It is accredited by the new england association of schools and colleges. Exploration in perspective cer4170 02 barry bartlett t f 1 40pm 5 20pm 2nd seven weeks contemporary ceramics processes cer2209 02 joshua primmer w f 10 20am 12 10pm new time as of 5 27 2020 2nd seven weeks. Bennington college ceramics turbine chess 2012 marble and metal ceramic 3d printing precollege ceramic work work projects. Ceramic forms have been both created exclusively for food whether to eat cook or store it.
Bennington college curriculum fall 2020. From this site one can start to investigate the history of ceramics covering a range of forms from purely functional to profound. Bennington free library has collaborated with a bennington college field work term student every year for the past ten years in a long successful history linda donigan youth services librarian said. Bennington college is a private liberal arts college in bennington vermont founded in 1932.
Originally a women s college it became co educational in 1969. The overarching goal of this course will be to familiarize students with all the resources which are available for use in bennington college ceramics and to empower them with a working familiarity with those facilities.