THE LIMITS AND CREATIVITY IN CERAMIC EDUCATION

Abstract

Ceramic has limitation unique to its self. These limits are obstical for the ceramic students, both related to technic and its bounds to craft. Approaches of the educators about what the limits are and how students can relate to the limits, presents the practice of  -not only ceramics but many art forms.

Ceramics relation to crafts and the material’s unique technical-content connections creates important and different points that can not be ignored in education. Criterias  to concider increases when new point are added to the list such as contemporary art and conceptual art. Limits and creativity relations get more complicated accordingly. Educators has to think with the limits of both crafts, concepts of contemporary art and technics and lead the students to find their own voices and uniqueness. At the same time educators has to be supportive about the student’s  pursuit of their own ways when they are  trying to find their own solutions about the contradictive choices when they encounter a limit or an obsticle. This study thinks about the limits of art education and their relations with creativity  through the examples of student works.