Royal Oak Campus, Orchard Ridge Campus, & Auburn Hills Campus

 

PURPOSE OF OCC'S CERAMICS PROGRAMS

    To create a learning environment that encourages personal openness, creativity and technical support.  The OCC ceramics program provides opportunities for study at three uniquely different clay studios  with experienced instructors committed to expanding the human potential in each student. Oriented toward persons who want to enrich their lives and increase their ceramic skills, the program can be pursued to obtain professional pottery making skills, to earn Art or Humanities credit for transfer to a University or Art school, to earn an Associates Degree in Ceramic Technology or to simply enjoy the excitement and satisfaction of working  with clay.

AUBURN HILLS CAMPUS

ORCHARD RIDGE

ROYAL OAK CAMPUS

TEACHER - HENRY TANAKA

 TEACHER - ROBERT PIEPENBURG TEACHER - CHARLIE BLOSSER
OFFICE  PHONE - 248 232 4043 OFFICE   PHONE - 248 522 3591 OFFICE  PHONE  - 248 246 2685
HYTANAKA@oaklandcc.edu  REPIEPEN@oaklandcc.edu   CRBLOSSE@oaklandcc.edu 

 

THE ROYAL OAK CAMPUS CERAMICS PROGRAM

    The ceramics program on the Royal Oak campus is designed to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to earn a full or part time income from clay.  Skill development in  basic and production  techniques  are stressed, along with  decorating , glazing, and firing procedures. An introduction to the  marketing of pottery products is experienced through participation in the annual Potters Market, a sale of advanced students' ware. In the past twenty five years, the Potters Market has become the largest sale of its kind in the country.

    Although the ceramics program on the Royal Oak campus has a vocational focus, many  students are taking classes to earn Art or Humanities credits or to follow their own directions and objectives in the use of clay as an avocational pursuit. Students can earn an Associate in Applied Science degree in Ceramic Technology.

    The following courses are offered each semester on the Royal Oak Campus:       

Art 154 Ceramics

 Cer 123 Wheel Throwing III
Art 254 Advanced Ceramics Cer 124 Wheel Throwing IV
Cer 131 General Pottery Cer 141 Glaze Formulation I
Cer  232 Advanced General Pottery Cer 242 Glaze Formulation II
Cer 121 Wheel Throwing I Cer 221.1 Ceramic Field Study
                                            Cer 122.1 Wheel Throwing II

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

For Registration Information Phone (248) 341- 2200

 The Royal Oak Ceramics Studio

    The Royal Oak studio has 6600sq.ft. including a clay room, a glaze kitchen, a damp room, a kiln room, a main studio for wheel throwing and hand building, and a room containing our library,  our pottery collection, and also serves as a classroom.  Raku is fired directly behind the studio. Our studio stoneware is white  and is fired to approximately cone 6 oxidation (2230° F)   

VIEWS OF OUR STUDIO

STUDENT GALLERY