Ceramics
Courses
- Master Course
- One-Year/Semester Course
- Art Short Course
- Summer Intensive Course
- Inquiry
Master Course (One-year / Semester)
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The studio-based Master program at Accademia Riaci is intended to broaden and advance the conceptual, critical, historical, and practical knowledge needed to sustain a contemporary studio. The program has been designed to meet the needs of artists holding BFA or BA degrees or comparable professional practice who are pursuing a Master in Ceramics within a time frame that accommodates their employment or academic year schedule. To exploration in the major, students pursue interdisciplinary investigation in studio topics common to each discipline and address contemporary critical issues and methodology in seminars. During the program, students complete independent studios, projects, and independent thesis. Students maintain contact with studio faculty and present studio work at specific intervals throughout the off-campus semester and at final critiques held at the end of the program.
One-Year / Semester Course
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The faculty in the ceramics area is interested in and encourages the development of each student’s personal point of view. We emphasize conceptual exploration and the acquisition of historical, critical and theoretical knowledge. Additionally, we feel the production of works of art (learning through the experience of making) and technical development are essential ingredients for the successful studio artist.
We are interested in students that understand tradition and embrace the making of useful objects as well as students who feel there may be new traditions to develop and new boundaries to expand.
Consequently, the range of students work is very broad, from sculpture and installation to utilitarian objects.
Accademia Riaci provides the following programs;
One-year course
This course offers a comprehensive and accelerated program, giving a unique opportunity to acquire a wide range of knowledge and techniques related to your field of study.
Along with practical classes of your major subject - combined with challenging homework and assignments – our Basic Art Lessons will provide you with fundamentals of arts and design.
Furthermore, you will broaden and enrich your artistic experience - looking beyond the borders of your specialty – through our weekly guided Art Visits and monthly Art Stages.
Through this program, you will not only acquire a solid foundation in your study area, but also develop specific, advanced skills, immersed in a stimulating learning environment. Moreover, you will have the chance to learn basic business practices, to start up you career as young professional. Diplomas are issued to those who pass the final exam.
- Course contents:
- ・Lessons of specialization
- ・Assistant interpreter during Lessons
- ・Independent Study
- ・Guided Art Visits
- ・Art Stages
- ・Basic Art Lessons (Art History, Basic Painting, Color theory, 3D Drawing)
Atelier course
The same curriculum as One-year Course, except Basic Art Lessons.
- ・Lessons of specialization
- ・Assistant Interpreter during Lessons
- ・Independent Study
- ・Guided Art Visits
- ・Art Stages
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The ceramics facilities at the academy and the city of Florence are excellent resources for your artistic and technical development. The academy has equipment available for wheel work, mold making, and slip casting projects, as well as large kilns for hand building and sculpture. A separate studio space is available for Basic course students. Due to the complex nature of materials and processes involved in this course, the curriculum incorporates aspects of chemistry, state-of-the art technology, and kiln and furnace design / construction. Students are encouraged to use a wide range of materials and methods that have been applied in both traditional and contemporary contexts. The curriculum is extensively enhanced by exposure to visiting artists, workshops, and guest lectures.
Active artist visit program provides basic course students with numerous opportunities to experience the work of a wide variety of professional artists. The academy has always encouraged conceptual and formal diversity in the ceramic area. As a faculty, their work, experience, and varying interests reflect this diversity. The ceramic faculty believes that communication and critical dialog between disciplines is essential to a broader understanding of the arts.
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You will learn simple hand twisting technique to creating ceramics using terra cotta. Please experience the feel of Italian clay.
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You will learn simple hand twisting technique to creating ceramics using terra cotta. Please experience the feel of Italian clay.
- Master Course
- One-Year/Semester Course
- Basic Course
- Short Course
- Summer Course
- Inquiry
Instructors
Prof. TRICCA, Prof. BITTONI, Prof. MURRO
Prof. TRICCA, Prof. BITTONI and Prof. MURRO have participated in several solo and group exhibitions. Along with their decades of experience as pottery professionals, they also teach with enthusiasm to students. They have participated to various international exhibitions, with buyers from Italy and abroad.
In their atelier they produce objects of high artistic value and full of poetic sensibility, taking inspirations from natural elements, fantastic landscapes, imaginary animals, with simple lines and solid sense of colors.
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