Using the language of cartoons in three dimensional form, students would learn to express and convey complicated and often hard to access concepts through the figure. This would be an all levels course intended for anyone interested in making loud and fun figures.
Ceramicist Brian McNamara uses character-driven narratives to tap into the emotions of a communal past. His intentionally cartoonish style, which draws on the aesthetics of the animated TV series he remembers from his childhood in the 1990s, enables him to talk about serious subjects with nostalgia and humor. McNamara received his MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, PA, and completed a residency at the Taos Ceramics Center in Taos, NM. He is based in Chico, CA, where he is a Lecturer in Ceramics, Foundations, and Digital Media at Chico State University. His work has appeared at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA), LH Horton Jr. Gallery at San Joaquin Delta College (Stockton, CA), and the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art (Davis, CA).