The ceramics area’s innovative curriculum stresses the blending of contemporary and traditional art making and ceramic practices with an expanded definition of ceramics and mixed media, allowing various sculptural approaches and combinations including performance, video, surveillance, sound, kinetics, interactivity, installation, architecture, environmental, figurative, and/or functional. Students are encouraged to utilize materials and processes for their conceptual ramifications, and to develop a critical dialogue and a process of experimentation. This developmental process is begun and reinforced through interaction with peers, ceramic faculty, art faculty, artists in the regional community, visiting artists, and our ongoing series of Ceramic Symposiums.
UARK Ceramic Events
Crafting Content: Ceramic Symposium 2008
January 31-February 2
How do artists who work primarily with clay, a material stigmatized by technique and process, go beyond this stereotype to express concepts? “Crafting Content: Ceramic Symposium 2008,” is the second symposium in a biennial series. The mission of these symposia is to create a forum for contemporary ceramicists to engage in a critical discourse concerning the culture of ceramics.