DE340 Pottery for Beginners (HASMED)

You need to pre-register for this course. We can accommodate 100 students in each semester.
After registration students would need to choose two 1 hour practice slots each week (Six 1 hour slots are available starting at 9:30AM and ending at 3:30PM, Monday through Friday)
depending on their other commitments. They also need to attend common classes each week (Slot 6, Wed/Fri 11 to 12.30)
At the end of each day, students need to volunteer for ONE day in the semester from 5.30PM to 6PM for cleaning up the studio.

While we continue with industrial production, it is important to keep some of the joys of the hand-crafted for human beings.

Course Objectives
Claybodies.
Hand-shaping Terracotta.
Centering, Making cylinders.
Making a kulhad.
Understanding mark-making.
Reflecting and writing.
Helping in cleanliness.
History of Ceramics.
Contemporary Ceramics.

Date
Screenings / Slide-Talks
17 January 2025
 Journeys in Clay / Contemporary Potters

Select References
Books
Rhodes Daniel, Pottery Form, , Pitman, 1976
Yanagi Soetsu, The Unknown Craftsman, Kodansha, USA, 1984
Preaud Tamara, Ceramics of the 20th Century, Rizzoli, 1982
Leach Bernard, A Potter's Book, Unicorn, London, 2015 (First published 1940)
Singh Gurucharan, Pottery in India, Vikas Publishing, 1979
Velar Ramu, Geetha V., A Potter's Tale, Tara Books, 2021

Journals and Magazines
MRIN: ICAF Vol 1-4
Indian Ceramic Quarterly, Delhi Blue Pottery Trust
Potters Newsletter