CCSU Ceramics

10/13/2022

Come Help feed the hungry! This is a collaboration with the CCSU Management and Design Departments, as well as Smalley Elementary School, the CCSU Art Department is creating bowls to raise money for the Friendship Center in New Britain through an Empty Bowls event in November.

We are looking for Skilled potters that can throw and participants of all levels to help with everything that goes with producing a large number of bowls in a short period of time.

Are you in?

Schedule:
Friday October 21: throwing day 4-8 pm Saturday October 22: trimming day 3-7 pm Sunday October 30: glazing and kiln loading 3 pm

Contact Susan Dane at [email protected] if you can help!
Please include which date(s) you are available and if you have experience working with ceramics.

Hope to see you!

03/04/2022

Repost about our former graduates. Awesome on how much they have accomplished. It seems like yesterday that they were …….

Today, we are going back to Round Trip Clayworks’ (Drew Darley and Erika Novak ) Working Potter article in the June/July/August 2021 issue. Darley and Novak create pottery individually and collaboratively in Avon, Connecticut. Working as full-time artists has granted them freedom and flexibility. To read more about their work, click through the link in our bio.

03/04/2021

Bowls, plates, glaze testing, hand building. Just another day at the ceramic studio .

01/26/2021

Day 1 at Central Connecticut State University. We are all on ground but the snow that came on kept 2 students at home. They are all set up with their studios and we are all set up for online teaching so all is good.

11/16/2020

Cone 10 reduction coming up.

09/24/2020

Lab happenings September 24, 2020. Check out their accounts.

09/17/2020

Starting to work on how to make your own glazes today.

05/05/2020

This pandemic has taking us back to basics. Learning how to Work the Clay without all that Equipment. Look mom no Kiln!

04/28/2020

The first project after we went online was Artistic response to our time and place, “living through the coronavirus pandemic”. This is what Matthew Dabkowski created. @ Central Connecticut State University

03/19/2020