SDSU School of Art, Design, and Art History

Ceramics Facilities

SDSU has a spacious well-organized facility that easily accommodates a large group of people working in diverse modes. There are six individual spaces available for graduate students in large studios, each shared by two to three graduate students. The ceramics shop includes two spacious open studios in addition to the graduate spaces, and a well-equipped glaze lab and computers for glaze calculation. A large outdoor courtyard provides a space for sculpture installations and critiques.

The facilities include several types of kick wheels and electric wheels, de-airing pug mill, clay mixer, slab roller, extruders, slip casting facilities, two thirty cubic foot computer controlled gas kilns, a ninety cubic foot gas kiln, nine electric kilns (seven of which ard computer controlled), gas and electric test kilns, two wood-burning kilns, a sodium-vapor kiln, raku and saggar kilns, smoke firing area, plus areas to build experimental kilns.

Thanks to San Diego's pleasant climate, a variety of outdoor activities, including all types of firing, can easily continue year-round. Interested students and guests are welcome to visit and tour the studio, located on the first floor of the Art Building. SDSU is located on a beautiful mesa-top campus minutes from beaches and a short drive from mountain and desert regions and the Mexican border. The many art galleries and museums of Los Angeles are only about two hours drive away.

This page was last updated at 4:28PM on June 30, 2008