Crafts Department

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Crafts Department

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We produce an encounter with materials, and support individuality and creativity.

We produce an encounter with materials, and support individuality and creativity.

In the first year, students participate in the four courses and experience basic techniques. They find materials to express themselves from materials such as metal, clay, glass and fiber for their own expressions. In the second year, they are divided into each specific field, and they seek for their own expressive methods. Our most sophisticated and extensive facilities enable students to make more individualistic and more creative work. Students learn useful skills such as methods of presenting their work and techniques of appealing to people.

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Metal Work Course

Students enjoy change of metal as the staff of creation.

Students study three methods such as “casting” that is melting metal poured into mold to shape it, “hammering” that is forging metal to make shape it and “carving” that is engraving for decoration. Metal shows various kinds of shapes and expressions and transforms into different material according to its characteristics and artists’ intention. Let us seek for possibilities of metal work and stretch our “creative wings”.

Ceramic Course

Students will become persons who can predict characteristics of clay, fire, and change of material.

With the faculty who are active on the front-line as ceramic artists, students master basic techniques through making artwork. Students understand characters of clay by studying “hand twist”, “potter’s wheel”, and “plaster mold” at first. Students thoroughly tackle slip decoration, on-graze decoration, study of graze and firing by kiln.

Glass Course

Understanding variable characters, we enjoy a minute change of glass.

Creative methods are consists of glass work (hot work) and glass cutting (cold work). Students experience glass casting and glass blowing techniques and understand characters of glass and acquire basic skills of cutting glass. Students pursue the possibilities of creation by obtaining high attainment of their techniques in each method.

Textile / Dyeing Course

Students dye and weave colors to become creators who are active in the world.

In the field of “Textile”, students pursue textile design, assuming that flat cloth becomes three-dimensional. In the “Dying and Weaving” course, students study materials, techniques and processes based on the traditional dying and weaving. Acquiring specialized knowledge and techniques in practical courses makes it possible to understand the future of textile and tradition of fiber arts in broader perspectives and foster creative people who can talk to the world.