Ceramics

The Visual and Performing Arts Department at Parish sees the arts as central to intuitive, affective, and aesthetic education and to the development of both right-brain and left-braining thinking. The arts should be learned in a mode that is active rather than passive with as much authentic and hands-on experience as possible.  At all grade levels, the Arts at Parish utilize developmentally appropriate challenges in basic and critical thinking skills: perceiving, distinguishing, organizing, analyzing, synthesizing, conceptualizing and expressing.  As an ancient art that is open to innovation, ceramics gives the student a broad vision for craft, technology and invention, intellectual curiosity and a passion for the process. Working in clay unites world cultures and is an art form less dominated by mainstream culture and artists.