Facilities and Equipment
The ceramic area has a dedicated studio for hand building, wheel throwing, and one for our advanced ceramic course. There are dedicated labs for glaze mixing and application, clay mixing and clay body recipe testing, and plaster.
The indoor undergraduate kiln room has three Unique/Pereny front loading electric kilns each with a capacity of 12 ft3; 5 Skutt electric kilns which include two Glaze Tech test kilns, two 1227 PK and one 1218; and seven downdraft gas kilns with stacking capacities from 45 to 157 ft3.
The outdoor kiln yard has a 32 ft3 gas soda kiln, a two chamber wood/wood soda kiln with a capacity of 64 and 48 ft3 per chamber respectively, two 29 ft3 updraft gas kilns and a 15 ft3 gas downdraft reduction test kiln.
The Graduate Students have a dedicated glaze/kiln lab with three Skutt electric kilns that include a KM 822 Test Kiln, KM 1627 PK Oval, KM 1218 barrel; and one front loader with a capacity of 12 ft3.
There is a Ricoh 4 color ceramic decal printer that is housed in the XYZ lab, file set up video tutorials and templates can be found by scrolling to the middle of the XYZ Lab equipment page. Also in the XYZ Lab are 3-D printers, laser cutters with a rotary tool attachment, a CNC router, and vinyl cutters. These may be used for free during the semester to create objects that directly support currently enrolled ceramic students in their ceramic research. Please see the pricing and guidelines for the XYZ Lab for students not currently enrolled in a ceramic course. Other maker spaces on campus are available to students, some equipment use is free, others have machine time and material fees.
Ceramic students can check out lockers, digital cameras, tripods and drawing tablets from the west building equipment crib, and reserve rooms for both the installation and documentation of work.
Please contact the ceramic area technician, Kimberlee Joy Roth [email protected], regarding questions.