This graduate studio course investigates color as a material condition rather than a surface effect. Moving beyond traditional color theory, we will examine how color can operate structurally and conceptually within three-dimensional form. Grounded in ceramic processes—particularly clay and glaze —the course treats color as a dynamic material that adheres, drips, gloops, stains, obscures, pools, resists, and transforms under conditions of heat, gravity, and time. Students will be encouraged to work from their primary disciplinary strengths—ceramics, painting, sculpture, textiles—while pushing into hybrid strategies that challenge the boundaries between surface and structure, support and skin, object and edges. Readings and critiques will situate studio work within histories of material color in modern and contemporary art and craft discourse. The course emphasizes experimentation, risk, and rigorous formal inquiry, asking how color can function not simply as description or decoration, but as substance, force, and form.

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