What
Wintersession Travel CourseWhere
When
Winter 2015
Course Dates: Jan 5, 2015 — Feb 6, 2015
Past Program
Japan: Mindful Making in Japan - Ceramics & Contemplative Practice
Japan offers a unique laboratory to study both by observation and hands-on experience the influence of culture, geography, and geology on the growth and development of material art.
Ceramics Critic Kelli Rae Adams MFA 09 CR worked with this group of 13 undergrad and graduate students participating in Mindful Making in Japan: Ceramics & Contemplative Practice.
At-A-Glance
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Academic Credits
3Department
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Cost
$3491Includes accommodation, field trips, local transportation, all meals, museum entrances, health and travel insurance.
Mindful Making in Japan
Kyoto, Japan
2015
About this Travel Course
Japan offers a unique laboratory to study both by observation and hands-on experience the influence of culture, geography, and geology on the growth and development of material art. This five-week experience was divided into two distinctly different but related parts, each of which provided a structured learning environment with very particular outcomes: The first part of the course concentrated on the development of a personal sketchbook / journal through a temple stay and visits to contemporary and historical sites of production and studios in central Japan. Important architectural sites, both old and new, from Okayama to Kyoto and Nara were visited. An interim review of the sketchbooks concentrated on the interpretation of the accumulated drawings from each student into a spatial object or objects to be fired in the kilns of the Kuramaki Studio in central Nara Prefecture. Ample opportunity for further visits in the historically significant region surrounding the studio were enjoyed by students. The course culminated with a documented exhibition of the "Clay in Japan", in Japan.
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