Ceramics students have 12,000 square feet of studio space as well as throwing and handbuilding classrooms. Juniors, seniors, and graduate students have individual studio space. Facilities include clay room, glaze room, plaster room, gas and electric kilns, a wood kiln, pottery wheels, and more.
Ceramics facilities details
Individual studio space for juniors and seniors; twelve 250-square foot individual studios for graduate students.
Throwing classroom
Handbuilding classroom
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Photo credit: Ariana Leo
Clay room with:
- 2 Clay mixers
- Pug mill
- Full stock of raw materials
- Ventilation system
Glaze room with:
- Stocked materials bins
- Spray booth
- Stainless steel worktables
- Scales
- Test kilns
- Ventilation system
Plaster room with:
- Coddle boards
- Metal flashing
- 2 Slip mixers
- Marble countertops
- 2.5 Ton hydraulic ram press
- Compressed air hose
- Ventilation system
7 Gas kilns
- 16-cubic foot Alpine
- 30-cubic foot Alpine
- 50-cubic foot Alpine
- 82-cubic foot Shuttle Geil
- 40-cubic foot Catenary arch
- 24-cubic foot Sprung arch test kiln
- 30-cubic foot Salt/soda kiln
10 electric kilns
- 3 Skutt 818
- 4 Skutt 1227
- Skutt 1027
- 28-cubic foot Fredrickson shuttle kiln
- 14-cubic foot Fredrickson front loader
Small fast-fire woodkiln on the Dartmouth campus
Sandblaster
Tile saw
Grinder
More than 40 pottery wheels
3 Slab rollers
3 Extruders
Ball mill
Assorted hand tools
Photo room