CERAMICS IN THE URAL STATE UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND ART IN EKATERINBURG: EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OR THE URALS SCHOOL OF ARTISTIC CERAMICS
The paper deals with the history of the origin of the professional ceramic school, which appeared in 1991 as a specialization in the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Art. As a result of generalization of the accumulated material, the contribution of ceramists united by the educational institution to the development of the phenomenon of Ural artistic ceramics has benn revealed. The paper attempts to compare the freedom of shaping in the local version of the development of the author’s artistic ceramics of the Urals and in the general artistic process. The creativity of the Academy’s graduates over a 30-year period replenished the author’s artistic ceramics of the Urals, demonstrating continuity with the tradition of the ceramic school.