01/03/2021
Welcome ! The UNM Ceramics Area supports the development of diverse personal visions, ranging from utilitarian pottery, objects, sculpture, and installations to site-specific works, community- engaged projects, and cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary practice, through the investigation of clay’s potential as a timeless, primary means of artistic expression.
Emphasis is given to the indispensable relationships of material, process, and context to idea. Ceramics honors CAA and NASAD curriculum guidelines, and provides a solid foundation in world clay history, concepts, materials, processes, safety, and professional practice at all levels.
Special, field-based courses, in time –honored, Pueblo Pottery traditions, are taught and developed by Clarence Cruz of the Oh-kay Owingeh Pueblo. A Luce Foundation Indigenous Knowledge Fellow, Professor Cruz fosters inclusive, cross -cultural dialog, and draws on the singularity of the Southwest.
Ceramics is housed in three separate buildings. Undergraduate facilities are located in the Art Building and Masley Hall on main campus. Graduate and faculty facilities can be found at the Charles Mattox Research Center, a few blocks off- campus. The Mattox spans over 30,000- square-feet of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary workspace, dedicated to individual studios, communal areas for large-scale works, exhibition, and critique rooms.
Applications to the Master of Fine Arts Studios Arts program with backgrounds in Ceramics, Arts and Ecology, Experimental Art and Technology, Sculpture and Small-Scale Metals Construction are reviewed by faculty in those five areas and admitted by consensus decision.
Ceramics Area Faculty and Staff
Clarence Cruz, Assistant Professor of Art, Luce Foundation Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship for Native American intellectual and community leaders MFA Studio Art, Pueblo Pottery Emphasis Minor Museum Studies, BFA Studio Art, emphasis Ceramics, UNM Albuquerque, [email protected]
Gina Voelker Bobrowski, Associate Professor of Art, MFA Ceramics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; BFA Ceramics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, and Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC [email protected]
Jonathan Fitz, Art Lab Manager Ceramics, MFA Ceramics and Sculpture, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH jwww.jonathanfitzstudio.com [email protected]
Justin Nighbert, Art Lab Manager, The Mattox MFA in Studio Art, Sculpture Emphasis, UNM
