Ceramics
Get Fired Up
Explore new materials and techniques, and develop your own artistic voice with clay. Your courses explore wheel-throwing, hand-building and mold-making processes; clay and glaze materials; firing processes; history and design. Coursework includes study in functional pottery, non-functional vessels and a wide range of sculptural expressions. You’ll learn command and appropriate choice of technique, ceramic technology and a general knowledge of ceramic art history.
![Student practices raku firing](/getmedia/050ddd4b-44ed-4256-a2b4-3718ae05b553/get-fired-up900.jpg)
![Student throws on potter's wheel](/getmedia/f7cfb4b4-43ee-4162-8c35-bf27e1824e11/Ceramics-Throwing-girl600x400.jpg)
![Open kiln in ceramic studio](/getmedia/12e7326e-e859-4ab3-a7aa-007078af96ee/kiln-600.jpg)
![Inside of ceramics studio](/getmedia/35f07772-494d-4e30-a083-78aacc70de76/studio-area600.jpg)
![Group of students work on potter's wheel](/getmedia/06e18676-6c1b-4a0d-8d16-13ecfae05716/Ceramics-Throwing600.jpg)
Ceramic Materials
Cast your eyes on our tools to shape your future.
Professional materials can help breathe life into your work. Our ceramics studio includes:
- Electric & kick wheels
- Extruders
- A slab roller
- Three electric kilns
- A raku kiln
- Three gas reduction kilns
- A temporary wood-fired kiln
- A glaze spray booth
- A ventilated glaze room
Beginning students fire their own bisque kilns while upper-level students mix their own clay and glazes, as well as load and fire kilns.
![Molly Gwitt, Studio Manager at Clay Studio](/getmedia/5888d373-8082-4559-95b0-b52fdebf7db3/art-meet-ceramics600x600.jpg)
Meet a
Phoenix
"I chose to attend UW-Green Bay because of my time spent at UWGB art camps. I took the ceramics class at the camp for 3 years in high school. After I graduated, I started assistant teaching at the camp alongside Dean Hoegger. Here I fell in love with UWGB’s impressive ceramics studio, raku firing and being a part of the UWGB community."
Molly Gwitt '21
Studio Manager at Clay Studio
![Professor Minkyu Lee](/getmedia/e6858c39-488c-4309-80b6-d7cf6bd6a119/minkyu-crop.jpg)
Got Questions?
Professor Minkyu Lee 'kiln' answer them. He has a passion for ceramics and holds a lifetime membership in the International Academy of Ceramics.