Ceramics Studios | College of Fine Arts

A wide view of the ceramics studio were rows of several throwing wheels are lined up together, shelves are along the back wall for works in progress, and more shelves farther away hold supplies.

Ceramics Studios

Art and Visual Studies Building, 236 Bolivar Street, Lexington, KY 40506

Ceramics features a large, multi-room facility, with separate classrooms devoted to wheel work and to hand-building.

The studio equipment include kick and electric wheels, a 40 inch Bailey slab roller, 2 extrudes, a Bailey de-airing pug machine, industrial clay mixer, a Bluebird clay mixer, a sand blaster, a Bailey glaze spray booth. Ceramics uses four computerized Skutt electric kilns, one manual Cone Art electric kiln, a 36 ft3 Geil electric car kiln, a 35 ft3 Geil gas kiln, a 60 ft3 soda kiln. On an off-campus location the ceramics program is developing a new wood kiln site featuring a 115 f63 Anagama wood kiln, a 26-ton log splitter and a spacious security-enclosed work area.

Several electric kilns line the right wall, with many shelves of works in progress lining the left wall. More shelves and storage continue on the far wall. — Electric Kiln Room

A large open air outdoor metal shed with blue and red paint. Set against the back wall are several large gas kilns with a few metal folding tables scattered around the space for loading and unloading firings. — Gas Kiln Yard

A brightly lit room lined with shelves for projects and supplies. Several large tables are arranged in the center of the room as communal workspace with many stools available. — Handbuilding Room

A large high metal table takes up the center of the room with vertical drawers below labled for various glaze and pigment materials. A tile color swatch board is on the far back wall and several shelves with more supplies. — Dye Room

Accessibility

The ceramics studio is located on the main floor of the Art and Visual Studies Building in rooms 140 and 142. There is a wheelchair-accessible entrance on the Broadway-facing parking lot. Elevators are accessible to all areas of the building (the Broadway side elevator goes between floors 1R and 2, and the elevator on the Upper Street side of the building goes from the Basement to the Third Floor).

Electric Kiln Room

Gas Kiln Yard

Handbuilding Room

Dye Room