陶瓷系提供了传统媒体的材料，技能和流程，但鼓励我们的学生颠覆普通人。陶瓷专业的学生体验了丰富的传统和高科技生产方法，同时对介质的复杂性和延展性进行了批判性思考。他们创作的作品从传统的船只到当代的装置，表演，混合媒体，时代艺术或基于社区的实践，应有尽有。在一个对传统模型和既定模型有强烈依恋的领域中，上汽集团的陶瓷部门鼓励进行实验，以便开发一种新的语言，用于以对象，设计多重，协作和装置的形式来进行陶瓷艺术生产。
The Department of Ceramics at SAIC is a model of interdisciplinary investigation where art, design, and craft are the fields of research and innovation. <br>Drawing from a wealth of technical and cultural traditions as well as from high-tech industrial applications, you will engage in a study and practice of ceramics that is unique and urgently contemporary. The SAIC Ceramics department reflects and embraces these contradictions, offering courses exploring interdisciplinary topics in ceramics such as the intersections of and shared methods, materials, and critical discourse among Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, Fiber and Material Studies, Sculpture and Performance. <br><br>SAIC offers one of the few ceramics graduate programs that focuses on experimental, contemporary ceramics, allowing you to move fluidly across materials and methods, using exploration of clay, sculpture, and studio pottery as a springboard for more personal and contemporary sculptural making. Free bulk materials allow for unlimited experimentation in the medium.