Crafts

The art and design degree program of the Division of Crafts consists of three fields; glass, ceramics, and woodwork and lacquerware. The division assigns professional instructors to each field. It has constructed a curriculum through which students learn methodology to employ in order to understand the characteristics of a raw material as a formative element, to select and fully utilize the potentials of the material, and to seek the expressions that can be embodied only by that material. Students should aim to embody high-level expressions using the materials, based on the education that they acquired at the school of the University of Tsukuba, and to further develop their understanding. In other words, the curriculum has been designed so students can acquire the expressions generated, through a range of practicums, such as Special Practicum, Formative Practicum Using Materials (glass, ceramics and wood), etc., deepening the skills and formative expressions of each field, and by combining a main material with those and formative elements of other fields in a cross-cutting manner. The research results of every student are shared through the Special Study for Art and Design Degree Program. The students present their research results in turn, exhibiting logical thinking and formative expressions, and review each other’s work, resulting in the assurance of the quality thereof. The graduation research requires students to produce both a work and a thesis (research report).

Seminar: Glass Art and Design / Special Seminar: Glass Art and Design
Special Topics in Ceramic Art
Workshops on Ceramic Art I / Workshops on Ceramic Art II
Workshops on Creating with Wood
Workshops on Lacquer Art

Ceramicists, craftsmen, three-dimensional artists, school teachers, researchers, etc.

2008　KUME Kaori　Tokyo FM
2010　ENDO Shoko　Grass Three-dimensional Artist
2011　KANNO Natsumi　Design Course, Section, Katsushika School for Deaf, Tokyo
2012　IBARAGI Syuhei　Hakuhodo Products Inc.
2014　ABE Jun　Instructor of Meikei High School
2015　FUKUYAMA Naoko　Potter
2017　DEGUCHI Maho　Dentsu Management Service
2017　TSUSHIMA Naoki　Kyodo Kougeisha
2017　OI Maki　Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki
2017　KOTANI Keiko　Artist

※ Graduates before Master’s Program in Art