Some ideas are best expressed in three-dimensions. This course combines Ceramics, Sculpture and Textiles for a 3D-focused fine arts all-day studio program.

This interdisciplinary studio is an exploration in working three dimensionally to understand the interaction between form and space. By experimenting with a variety of materials and techniques, including woodworking, mold making, casting, wirework, and site-specific installation, you experience the ways in which these choices affect a sculpture's form. You investigate the concept of occupying space by considering line, plane, volume, composition, rhythm, balance, color, proportion, and scale as well as how context and presentation influence the perception of a piece.

This course introduces students working in diverse disciplines to the creative potential of cloth and string. From woven forms to surface design to handwork, students explore a wide range of hands-on textile techniques in both two and three-dimensions including felting, stitching, netting, crocheting, dyeing, fabric printing, and weaving. Students are encouraged to work experimentally and to push the boundaries of the media, using both traditional and non-traditional materials.

Class discussions address ideas of positive versus negative, interior versus exterior, static versus dynamic, and representational versus abstract.

Clay is one of the most dynamic and versatile mediums for translating the creative impulse into three-dimensional form. By rendering ideas in space, you learn to push the limits of your visual language. You work with sculptural hand building, the potter’s wheel, and plaster molds in order to fully explore the intersection of art, craft, and design. Finishing techniques, glazing, and surface design bring the works to completion with a dual emphasis on ceramics as both a utilitarian and sculptural medium.

CCA’s new ceramics facility is filled with lots of natural light, fully equipped hand-building and wheel-throwing areas, gas and electric kilns, and a glaze room.

While creating projects that range from object-oriented pieces to experimental, time-based, and collaborative work, you explore conceptual approaches to sculpture in order to express ideas and issues.

This studio includes field trips exploring San Francisco's dynamic public art scene and museums.

Ceramics, Sculpture, & Textiles is an all-day studio. This studio is designed for both beginning and advanced students.

The Pre-College 2025 application opens in late September 2024 and closes mid June 2025.