Groupings for Research

1. East Asia- China -Katie, Rachel
2. East Asia -Japan - Abagail, Makayla
3. West Asia - Islamic- Ian, James
4. North American Navajo- Charlotte- Keely
5. South American Mexican or Aztec - Allie, Hannah
6. African Anna, Lydia, Grant
7. Greek- Jackie, Victoria, Marissa,
8. Artifacts General - Bella, Matt S, Isabella
9. Modern Ceramics- Mary Ellen, Stephanie 

DHS Ceramic Studio

Glaze ware from SSAC

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Wax Resist

Incised Cylinder

Small Cup and Saucer

Ceramics at DHS Day 2

Ms Field and I finished getting the class room/ studio space ready today and we both are excited and ready to welcome our students in for a great year of creativity and enjoyment!

Ceramic Studio at DHS

Today I worked in the Ceramics Studio.. here is what I accomplished

Moved work (Teapots/Bisque ware) out of cabinets used for slow drying to cart in the closet. this movable carts will most likely be used to unload finished pieces int he future

Also put tools on one side of table closer to sink.. the other side of the table is clear for wedging and cutting clay

Cleared out "office"... moved lamps to closet and moved stuff around for easy access of cabinets in there (glaze etc)

Cleared out contents of cabinets in front of Kilns. Took off Shelves and placed stilts and such on that counter in easy reach when loading

Erased Chalkboard and created an area in the corner for "stationary supplies" aslo moved all sketch books to this corner for use...scrap or simply for a student who doesn't have a sketchbook

Table in front of chalk board may be used for texture items for handbuilding

Found LCD and determined where I would position it for viewing Youtube and other visuals

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Played with Wheel very quickly as my daughter was getting tired of being there.. I used an old bag of clay and it was kind of hard so it was really difficult to work with...

Glazing at SSAC

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Colored Slip

1st step

2nd Step

This is a Fun way to learn about the use of Positive and Negative Space/Shape 

The top photo shows the pieces of cut paper I place on the wet clay.

Then I painted the slip over the pieces being careful not to shift them. Then I removed the pieces of paper creating a Stencil effect... this is just a small approximately 4" x 6" but it is sufficient to experiment with the process. I decided to pinch the corners and create walls to make it a shallow "dish" .

Its fun to have a new "twist" on coloring clay and working with Contrast

Using White clay with Colored Clay

This is a Cylinder form I threw on the wheel I decided since it was kind of boring to Add Surface Design I did some Incising and then INLAYED with Colored Clay

Handbuilding- Slab
Coil with colored clay added then "rolled into" the slab

First 1/2 of Ceramics 1

Introductions
Course overview.. Studio Organization Orientation
Expectations
Routines
Sketching a repertoire of Line & Shapes..
Exploring Pattern

Exploration of Ceramics - Historically - Cross Culturally - Personally

• By Form
• By Function
• By Subject Matter

Essential Question:

How can we learn about ourselves and the world past and present through examining the Art form of Ceramics?

1st Term

Studio Work

Handbuilding Overview
A series of "Instructor Lead" projects to learn and practice the basics.

1) Pinch Pot - craftsmanship and innovation.
Tools and their uses

Using Basic Pinch pt method each student will make a small container. The will choose to add shape to create feet, lip, base, covers, etc

1a) Create personal small roll and stampers using slabs, coils, incising

2) Slab- using molds- Simple to ornate

•  a) Using simple shapes to create shallow dishes/ platters Experiment with Incising/Drawing on Clay and/or methods to adding other other relief shapes to create theme etc.
• b) Using colored Slip and Positive/Negative Stencils

Slab building-Using Templates
Constructing a box
2 colored clay?

Coil-TBD

Technology Integration-Research & Reflection

Computer Lab...

#1 Establish and Set up Individual Blog
Add link to Google Doc Class Spread Sheet & See Assignments

Pages....
1st Page- HOME PAGE 
This is the only part of the blog where you can add "posts"
and where you will post photos of your work and blog as required (weekly min)
and any other original work/presentations done for class

Add Pages-  unlike the Home page these can only be added to by "editing"
Page
#2 Pinch Pots
#3 Cultural & Historical
#4 Slab Building
#5 Coil
#6 Wheel 
#7 Resources and Tutorials

#2 Assignment 
Working with a partner or group. Create a presentation on your Blog about 1 of the following:

Culture  Each Group is assigned a Culture known for their Ceramic Art form

• East Asia- China or Japan
• West Asia - Islamic
• North American Navajo
• South American Mexican or Aztec
• African
• Greek

Find as least 1 finding for each and explain

• Historical - Artifact by that Culture 
• Forms by that Culture
• Function of Forms

#3 Motif Research and sketches

Get ideas of Symbols you can use to create texture/pattern stamps
create thumbnail sketchs in your sketchbook (at least 5)