CER1221

Studio practice (glass)

36 points
* 15 studio hours per week
* Full-year subject
* Caulfield

Objectives On successful completion of this subject students should be able to use glass creatively to realise concepts; have a basic understanding of the skills of glass manipulation, understand the physical properties of glass, glass constituents and elementary glass theory.

Synopsis Students will be introduced to the potential of glass: the creative possibilities of glass, hot-glass and warm-glass studies and techniques to realise their concepts. Students will be introduced to projects involving hot glass and kiln-worked glass through lectures, demonstrations, tutorial, audiovisual presentation and seminars.

Assessment Folio: 80%
* Studio research diary: 20%

Prescribed texts

Cummings K The technique of glass forming Read, 1980
Flavell R Studio glass making Van Nostrand, 1974
Klein D Glass: A contemporary art Collins, 1989
Kvlasiewics F Glass blowing Watson Guptill, 1974
Lundstrom B and Schwoerer D Glass fusing book 1, Vitreous Publications, 1983