Career as Ceramic Artists

• National Museum

• Fenix Ceramic, Gujrat

• Laxmi Ceramic Arts, Ahmedabad

• Tata Ceramics

• Saint Gobain

• Good Earth

• Titan

• All India Artisans and Craftworkers Welfare Association (AIACA)

• Clay Craft

• Dovetail

• Ekmatra Fashion

With starting a career as a trainee and then as a fresher, a Ceramic Artist can work as a freelancer. They can work at studios and create, design various masterpieces with their creative skills. The Ceramic Artist can also open their own store to sell their products. They also have the option to work and earn as professors or teachers in colleges or by giving private coaching. The Ceramic Artist having soft selling and business skills can work as individual owners also.

Pros
 

• This sector provides a lot of work as a freelancer.

• This career has options to show ones’ creativity.

• This is a rewarding career option with growing popularity.
  
  

Cons
 

• This job requires a lot of hard work and creativity.

• The client requires newness in every order or project.

• The artist is required to possess high skills, knowledge and a lot of practice.

• Some artists can learn the skills on their own with basic education and techniques.

• There are certain institutes which offer short duration courses for ceramic or pottery making to any stream student who has completed class 10+2 from the recognised education board.

• Few aspirants after completing higher secondary education in any stream opt for two or four years’ degree course in ceramic arts from various art schools or colleges offering the bachelor’s degree.

The fees for the Ceramic Artist course varies depending upon the university and type of course. The average cost for beginners’ course is Rs 15,000 while Intermediate level costs Rs 20,000 and for professional-level one needs to pay an average cost of Rs 1,80,000.

• Any person after qualifying class 10+2 can pursue a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts, which is a three - year undergraduate course. After completing the course and fulfilling the training term period, anyone who is focused can become a Ceramic Artist.

• Anyone who wants to become a Ceramic Artist has to complete the apprenticeship, after completing basic class 12th, at a ceramic art studio to successfully work as a trained Ceramic Artist.

• Anyone after completing class 10+2 is eligible to apply for a bachelor degree course such as National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad entrance exam. The NID offers a course of ceramic and glass design which has a total of 10 seats, and the course duration is four years.

There are various studios in India which offer various multi-level courses in ceramic and pottery with a motive to keep alive the art of clay and ceramic. People can join theses studio out of a hobby or develop and sharpen their professional skills, the names of studios which location are mentioned below:

• Andretta Pottery, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh

• Rahul Clay Studio, Gurgaon

• The Pottery Lab, Mumbai

• Anvi Pottery, Pune

• Atelier Lalmitti, Himachal Pradesh

• Slow Pottery, Bengaluru

• Clay Fingers Pottery, Kerala

Various colleges in India offer students courses in ceramic designing. These colleges have excellent education facilities and infrastructure to promote great knowledge about the course.

• Fundamentals of design including form, colour, structure, space, light etc.

• Input in ergonomics for awareness in usability aspects.

• Exposure to allied materials, such as bamboo, wood, metal & leather besides core materials.

• Enhancing the sensibility and sensitivity towards aesthetic & function of design.

• Work within a variety of industries, producing tableware, tiles, sanitary ware as part of Industrial Training.
  
  

Syllabus for Ceramic Engineering Course

• Engineering Drawing

• Introduction to ceramics.

• Ceramic Raw Materials.

• Techniques for Materials Characterization.

• Glass and Glass Ceramics Refractories.

• Bio-Ceramics.

• Heat and Mass Transfer

• Advanced Ceramics

• Process Calculations

• Ceramic Processes.

• Ceramic Coating & High Temperature.

• Pollution Control in Ceramic Industries.

• Ceramic Composites

• Ceramic Processes.

• Non-Oxide & Structural Ceramics.

• Plant, Equipment and Furnace Design.

• Ceramic Whitewares.

• Ceramic Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformation

• Particle Mechanics and Fluid Flow Process.

• Structure and Properties of Ceramic Materials.

• Computer Programming.

If for someone a Ceramic Artist does not work, being an artist one can work as a glass artist, fashion designer, jewellery designer, woodworker, fashion illustrators, lifestyle blogger, painter, can work in a museum or as a teacher.

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