MTU Crawford College of Art & Design

What is the course about?

This course introduces students to the experience of throwing as a means of creating ceramic forms and as a means of expression of ideas. Using earthenware students learn how to produce ceramic forms on the wheel and explore and gain skills in the areas of clay preparation, throwing, turning and firing. Students gain a comprehensive understanding of the various stages of drying clay and learn how to monitor and control the drying process. Students work with the shapes in leather hard stage, add applications where appropriate and finish shapes.

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Tutor Profile

Bernadette Tuite  

After many years in San Francisco where Bernadette Tuite worked as a boat captain, she returned to Ireland to reinvent herself through an Art education. In pursuing her ambition to obtain an art degree Bernadette began her journey by setting up a ceramic studio in her native Co. Meath in 2011 while caregiving to her parents. 

To improve her knowledge, she began with the Pottery Skills and Design Course offered by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny in 2012. Bernadette continued her studies in Crawford College of Art and Design  & Shanghai University Fine Art Glass Department, completing her studies in 2018 with an Applied Art degree from Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork.  

She currently works from her studio in Backwater Artists’ Studios in Cork, she exhibits her work locally and nationally. She is represented by Mill Cove Gallery, Kenmare and the Glucksman Gallery, Cork. 

Accreditation

These part-time, evening courses provide students with an opportunity to experience the potential of visual arts practice, through sustained engagement with materials, techniques, processes, research and art contexts.  Each course is an accredited module (5 credits) on the National Framework of Qualifications, where 60 credits equate to the workload of a full-time academic year on a degree programme.  It may be possible, therefore, to use these credits as part of one of our full-time programmes in the Department of Fine Art and Applied Art.  Students interested in pursuing this option should contact crawford.enquiries@mtu.ie and bear in mind that they would need to submit work for assessment at the end of the module.

Contact

Course Enquiries:
crawford.enquiries@mtu.ie

For more information & to apply:
https://www.mtu.ie/courses/craccxxg7/