This course will focus on either, hand-building or wheel throwing (student's choice) for the entire semester. Hand-builders will create projects using advanced techniques such as hard slab construction, organic abstraction, and figuration. Wheel throwers will create projects including: lidded jars, pitchers, casseroles, and teapots. Students will continue to study contemporary ceramics artists as well as ceramics art history to inform and connect this research to their own art making practice.