Katy Schimert

Professor
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RISD faculty member Katy Schimert
BA, University of the Arts
MFA, Yale University

Katy Schimert received her BA from the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) in 1985 and her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 1989. She began making ceramic sculpture in 1992 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she taught sculpture, drawing and photography.

Schimert has been the focus of solo exhibitions at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst (2014), David Zwirner, New York (2006), The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (1999) and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1997). Her work has been included in significant group exhibitions at BAM Brooklyn Academy of Art (2010), Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2007), Aspen Art Museum (2007), the 1997 Whitney Biennial and the 1996 Sao Paulo Biennial.

Before joining the staff at RISD, Schimert was a lecturer at Yale University and UCSB, and adjunct professor and sculpture department coordinator at New York University and visiting professor of sculpture at both Harvard University and New York University. In spring 2011 she taught drawing in RISD’s Experimental and Foundation Studies division.

Courses

Fall 2024 Courses

CER - 410G-01 FIRST YEAR GRADUATE STUDIO CERAMICS
Level Graduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 9
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

FIRST YEAR GRADUATE STUDIO CERAMICS

Level Graduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 9
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM Instructor(s): Katy Schimert Location(s): Metcalf Building, Room 305 Enrolled / Capacity: 6 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

In the first semester, graduate students begin their investigation and produce clay works that allow the faculty to assess their approach and capabilities. Students are available and pursue active contact with the faculty. Students also attend supplemental department presentations.

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Ceramics Students.

Major Requirement | MFA Ceramics

CER - 4116-01 SENIOR TUTORIAL STUDIO
Level Undergraduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

SENIOR TUTORIAL STUDIO

Level Undergraduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM Instructor(s): Katy Schimert Location(s): Metcalf Building, Room 316 Enrolled / Capacity: 8 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

In the beginning of your fourth year you work independently with a ceramic faculty tutor to develop your individual degree project. Your project is expected to be a body of ceramic work that is unified in direction, significant in its degree of growth, innovative in its resolution, and personal in its expression.

Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Senior Ceramics Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Ceramics

CER - 4117-01 DRAWING TAKES FORM
Level Undergraduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

DRAWING TAKES FORM

Level Undergraduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Katy Schimert Location(s): Metcalf Building, Room 314 Enrolled / Capacity: 12 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Drawing is explored through ceramic techniques. This class serves to enhance the artist's perceptions relative to what drawing can become through the exploration of surface becoming form, and form mediated by surface. Drawing can be premeditation and drawing can be realization.

Elective

CER - 412G-01 SECOND YR.GRAD STUDIO CERAMICS
Level Graduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

SECOND YR.GRAD STUDIO CERAMICS

Level Graduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM Instructor(s): Katy Schimert Location(s): Metcalf Building, Room 305 Enrolled / Capacity: 6 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Continued exploration begun during the first year leads to the presentation of a thesis project. Students work during class hours to ensure daily contact with faculty.

Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Ceramics Students.

Major Requirement | MFA Ceramics

/ - SEMINAR: SOURCE PRESENTATION
Level Graduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Graduate Studies Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

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SEMINAR: SOURCE PRESENTATION

Level Graduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Graduate Studies Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Instructor(s): Katy Schimert Location(s): Design Center, Room 209 Enrolled / Capacity: 8 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This course helps the Ceramics Graduate Student develop a vocabulary of concepts concerning their works in clay. A slide presentation is made by each student concerning the relationship between an artist's resources, historical precedent and works in clay for class discussion.

Offered as CER-413G and GRAD-413G.

Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Ceramics Students.
 

Major Requirement | MFA Ceramics

CER - 4197-01 SEMINAR: SOURCE PRESENTATION
Level Undergraduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

SEMINAR: SOURCE PRESENTATION

Level Undergraduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Instructor(s): Katy Schimert Location(s): Design Center, Room 209 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This class helps you to develop the vocabulary of concepts relating your work to your sources. A number of exercises are undertaken culminating in a presentation of your ideas.

Please contact the department for permission to register. Preference is given to Senior Ceramics Students.

 
Major Requirement | BFA Ceramics

/ - SEMINAR: SOURCE PRESENTATION
Level Graduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Graduate Studies Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

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SEMINAR: SOURCE PRESENTATION

Level Graduate
Unit Ceramics
Subject Graduate Studies Ceramics
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Instructor(s): Katy Schimert Location(s): Design Center, Room 209 Enrolled / Capacity: 8 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This course helps the Ceramics Graduate Student develop a vocabulary of concepts concerning their works in clay. A slide presentation is made by each student concerning the relationship between an artist's resources, historical precedent and works in clay for class discussion.

Offered as CER-413G and GRAD-413G.

Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Ceramics Students.
 

Major Requirement | MFA Ceramics

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RISD faculty member Katy Schimert
BA, University of the Arts
MFA, Yale University