Provides students with the opportunity to work independently with traditional and contemporary approaches to ceramic materials and processes to develop an individual approach to art making. Students work in consultation with faculty and meet as a group to workshop and critique concepts and techniques. As an advanced studio course for graduate art therapy students, methodologies in support of ways in which ceramics can be brought into the narrative, self-expressive realm, advancing the basics of handbuilding methods, will be emphasized. [ 3 credits ]