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The Ceramics program at the University of Florida is one of the major ceramics programs in the southeast. The program is designed to promote growth in aesthetics, technical knowledge, and conceptual approaches. Individual tutorials, group seminars, and critiques provide a variety of settings for development and exchange of ideas relevant to the arts in general, and ceramics in particular. The strength of the program lies in its diversity: no one style, aesthetic, or technical focus is stressed over others. Experimentation is encouraged. The curriculum addresses the broad range of perspectives found in contemporary Ceramic art, from sculpture to vessel-reference works, to pottery, and includes historical and contemporary references. Program Ceramics Graduate Seminar meets weekly in addition to mid-term and final critique meetings and addresses contemporary issues in Ceramics, individual studio issues, and other topics of interest pertaining to the ceramic arts. The faculty believes that the ability to evaluate and discuss works should extend beyond one's personal studio involvements, and students alternate semester tutorials with each faculty professor, regardless of personal studio orientation. An active visiting artists' program supplements the offerings of the Ceramics area. H.O.T. Clay, a student organization, has actively supported these educational programs. UF Ceramics has hosted numerous nationally recognized artists, including Walter McConnell, Arthur Gonzales, Judy Moonelis, Jim Lawton, Joe Bova, Akio Takamori, Cynthia Bringle, Richard Notkin, Jeff Oestreich, Ron Meyers, Bobby Silverman, Marilyn Lysohir, Brian Ransom, Peter Beasecker, Yih-Wen Kuo, Jim Connell, and historians Glen Browen and Elaine Levine. During the 2005-2006 school year Ron Meyers, Sadashi Inuzaka, and Holly Hanessian are to visit. In recent years Ceramics' students have been offered competitive scholarships for summer programs at Penland and Arrowmont. Facilites Graduate students have individual studios spaces within group studio areas in Ceramics. Two large kiln areas house 22 electric, 4 gas, 1 gas raku, a wood kiln and a newly constructed soda kiln, including a 60 cu. ft/ electric car kiln and a 90 cu. ft. downdraft car kiln. The kiln room is equipped with a dry box and plaster area. Clay mixing offers 2 Soldner mixers, a Bluebird Model 24S and a pugmill. The glaze lab stocks a complete range of ceramic raw materials, custom spray booths, a digital scale and blunger. The Throwing Lab is equipped with Brent, Pacifica, and Shimpo electric wheels. Graduate students needing personal access to a potters' wheel in their studios for making work should consider bringing personal equipment to guarantee access. H.O.T. Clay H.O.T. Clay, the Ceramics student organization, seeks to promote the ceramic arts through educational activities open to all university students and the general public. Activities include seminars and other collaborative events, semi-annual sales, and socials. H.O.T. Clay helps sponsor members wishing to attend the annual NCECA conference. Faculty Linda's studio work investigates ideas about indulgence, and implications of motion, gesture, and growth through the tradition and interpretation of the functional vessel. Form and surface relationships in decorated pottery, and low-fire and majolica methods of glazing are vehicles for this investigation. She has background in ceramic materials and glaze calculation. Selected visiting summer-session faculty positions: Cleveland Institute of Art, Penland School, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Lectures and workshops have been presented at The James Renwick Alliance, Roswell Museum, Institute for Ceramic Studies (Cardiff, Wales), the Utilitarian Clay I and II Conferences at Arrowmont School, and many university engagements nationally. Her work has been exhibited in numerous national juried and invitational shows. Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Florida Individual Artist's Fellowship and a University of Florida Research Professorship. Selected collections: Charles A. Wustrum Museum of Fine Arts, Weisman Museum, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, The Detroit Institute of Art, Nationsbank Corporate Headquarters, and the Lamar Dodd Art Center in LaGrange, GA.
The focus of Nan’s studio work is the life scale figure set within tableaux. Through her sculptures Smith reflects a perspective on the relativity and unity within existence. Ethereal and white, reflecting the porcelain figurine and statuary traditions the sculptures are idealized personifications. The sculptures are intimate and contemplative; they picture memory and indicate a sense of its timelessness. Her research synthesizes an individual conceptual direction and visual language, as well as a strong technical base in process innovation. Nan Smith has exhibited her sculpture in over 100 exhibitions throughout the United States. Most recently her sculpture was included in the World Ceramics Exposition, Yeoju, Korea, "Taking Measure: American Ceramic Art at the New Millennium", 2001, “RAWSPACE “ and The Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts Special Exhibit; “Intuitive Balance”, SOFA Chicago 2004, “21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada”, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, 2003, “Clay Body Rhetoric: Ceramic Figures of Speech”, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, “Figured Ceramics”, a national invitational of figurative ceramics presented by the Northern Iowa University, 2002, and the national installation exhibition "Beyond the Physical: Substance, Space and Light" (during NCECA Charlotte 2001). Her sculpture also appeared in the NCECA Invitational 2000, "A Glimpse of the Invisible", and in solo exhibitions at the Appleton Museum of Art and Hand Workshop, Virginia Center for Crafts. Awards include: a National Endowment for the Arts regional award for sculpture sponsored by the Southern Arts Federation, and three Florida Individual Artists' Fellowships. She has presented workshops on latex and airbrush for Ceramics throughout the U.S. Nan Smith was a conference Demonstrator at the 1999 NCECA Conference and will co-jury the NCECA Student Regional Juried Exhibition 2006. She was a resident artist at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, in 1999 and 2004. Selected collections include: The WOCEK International Ceramics Collection housed at the Ichon Ceramics Center, Korea, American Express/IDS Corporation, Minneapolis, MN; Lamar Dodd Art Center, La Grange College, La Grange, GA. Selected Publications: NEW! Chapters in books: Periodicals: World Sculpture News; Volume 7 Number 2,
Spring 2001. "Articulating Consciousness", by Glen R. Brown, Ceramics
Technical; No. 11, 2000, "Color, Air, Illusion", by Nan Smith,
The Studio Potter; v.28 No 1, December 1999, "Flexible Mold Making"
by Nan Smith, The Studio Potter; v.26 No 2, June, 1998, Cover and feature
page "Potters of Northern Florida", Ceramics: Art and Perception;
Issue 25, 1996, "Feminist Visions in Clay" by Nancy Kapitanoff,
Ceramics: Art and Perception; Issue 21, 1995, "Transforming Consciousness:
Nan Smith's Spiritual Ceramics", by William Doty, Ceramics Monthly;
"Controlled Drying and Firing", May 2000, by Nan Smith, Ceramics
Monthly; February 1996, "Flexible Molds for Ceramics" by Nan Smith,
Ceramics Monthly; March 1991, Cover and feature article "Blending Intuition
and Logic" by Nan Smith, Sculpture; May June 1994, "Nan Smith"
an essay by Donald Kuspit, American Craft; June July 1993, Portfolio page.
Teaching Lab Specialist Matt Shaffer Matt recently joined UF Ceramics as a staff member. Matt is known for his life scale figure sculpture.
Fall Application Deadline: February 1 Prospective students are encouraged to apply for admission as early as possible. The Graduate Assistantship/Fellowship application deadline is also February 1. Assistantships are generally offered only at the beginning of the fall term and students applying for spring are not eligible for fellowships. Late Applications Late applications are accepted; however, students will be considered for admission and assistantships according to available space in the program. Contact Students interested in contacting a Ceramics faculty member or scheduling a visit to the Ceramics area should contact: Linda Arbuckle. |
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