The Ceramics program at UNM offers an exciting and diverse choice of approaches toward the medium. The undergraduate and graduate Ceramics labs are equipped with large gas kilns, electric, saggar, raku and soda kilns, as well as access to an anagama kiln located off campus. Clay and slip mixers ,slab roller and wheels encourage the student to explore all aspects the ceramic discipline from vessels to sculpture, installation and performance. Indigenous traditions can be experienced first hand through the site based Pueblo Pottery or Casas Grandes Ceramics classes.

On the graduate level Ceramics students have studios in a shared facility with Sculpture and Small metals. This facility provides an area where students are encouraged to work across disciplines, technologies and ideologies in an exploration of spatial and material communication.