About Program
This course will take you to Jingdezhen in China and seize the chance to study the traditional Chinese clay art, its features, and its uses. Classes will focus on hand-building, wheel-throwing, and surface decoration skills, and other unique aspects such as clay mixing, glazing, and kiln firings.
This summer program will cover the mysteries of the traditional clay art through lectures, demonstrations, and assignments, but will allow students to discover Jingdezhen in their spare time.
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Program Highlights
- Discover Jingdezhen, China's new studio practices of clay art.
- Get some hand-building, wheel-throwing, and surface decoration skills.
- Travel around the ancestral city of Jingdezhen.
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China is the most populous country in the world and has one of the fastest-growing economies. China's landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts in the arid north to subtropical forests in the wetter south. China has over 34,687 species of animals and vascular plants, making it the third-most biodiverse country in the world, after Brazil and Colombia.
