Art 1, Week 13- Ceramics Intro

Essential Standards: B.V.3.3 Exemplify characteristics of different artistic processes.

B.CX.1.1Use visual arts to explore concepts in world history and relate them to significant events, ideas, and movements from a global context.

B.CX.1.4 Interpret art in terms of cultural and ethnic context.

Monday

1.Finish Perspective Project, using rubric to guide you. Project is due beginning of class WEDNESDAY.

2.Early Finishers: Set up the room for ceramics:

Make new seating chart so everyone sits at a low table,Hang ceramics posters,

Bring in reclaim buckets, rinsing buckets, and clay buckets,Assign chores,

Organize tool buckets for each table,Arrange examples,

Cover free tables with canvas and clamps,Reclaim any hardened clay,

Bring in clay, rolling pins, wood strips, plastic bags,Kiln wash kiln shelves,

Assign tray numbers to students,Fix tape on clay rack,

Write name on masking tape on open side of board,Take kiln room tours,

Arrange clay rack shelf space for each student.

Tuesday

1.Catawba Valley Pottery Video:

discuss ceramics firing process.

2.Finish Perspective Project, using rubric to guide you.

3.Early finishers: Look through old pottery magazines for interesting ideas to use, look up pottery wheel

videos on Youtube (for example: look up 'pottery wheel mug, bowl, dish, vase...')

Wednesday

1.Perspective drawing is due for a Peer Assessment. Please throw away all tape, wipe board clean and put away, and sign your name on your paper. Put up all perspective drawings on boards for a critique.

2.Clay PPT. Take notes for Ceramics Quiz on Friday!

3.Look at ceramic examples and discuss how they were made.

4.Pinchpot: review poster, ppt, and make a pinchpot with thin walls. Do not allow clay to touch the table:

Always work in your hands. Cover your pottery and tray in plastic.

5.Clean up Routine and chores: dump buckets, organize cart, clean clay tables, check floor, sinks.

6.All pottery must fit on your tray and not be taller than 9” to fit on the cart shelves. No exceptions!

Consider different shapes for your vessel base: rectangle, triangle, oval. See the poster about vessel shapes. Be sure your vessel is stable: it won’t fall over easily.

7.Kiln room tours.

Thursday

Jomon Flame Vessel PPT: TAKE NOTES & SKETCH vessel ideas!!!
Refer to pinchpot and coil posters. Watch Teacher Tube video on coiling and take notes, drawing diagrams for each technique:
0-6:20slab base and creating coils6:20-8:30 first coil

Friday

1.8:30-12:37 rope coil12:37-14:35 raindrops

14:35-17:30 spirals17:30-21:30 border, fence, rainbow

21:30-23:15 stamps, plug holes with raindrops23:15-25:11 ribbon

25:11-26:50 slab coil for text or carving26:50-28:48 slab for attaching sculpture

28:48-29:30 draping shoelaces, handles29:30-32:10 final coils

2.Ceramics Quiz is next week.

Name / Green-ware / Ceramic Vessels / Due: / Grade
Assessor / A
93-100 / B
85-92 / C
78-84 / D
70-77 / F
0-69
Requirements
met / Pinchpot base, coil vessel / 19-20 / 17-18 / 16 / 14-15 / 0-13
Use of a variety of techniques: texture, stamps, carving, sculpture / 28-30 / 26-27 / 24-25 / 21-23 / 0-22
Craftsmanship / Skillful use of clay, smooth
with no rough/sharp areas / 28-30 / 26-27 / 24-25 / 21-23 / 0-22
Stable vessel, not wobbly / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 0-6
Artistic Vision / Created new techniques from those demonstrated, complex form, meticulous detail, excellent craftsmanship / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 0-6
Name / Green-ware / Ceramic Vessels / Due: / Grade
Assessor / A
93-100 / B
85-92 / C
78-84 / D
70-77 / F
0-69
Requirements
met / Pinchpot base, coil vessel / 19-20 / 17-18 / 16 / 14-15 / 0-13
Use of a variety of techniques: texture, stamps, carving, sculpture / 28-30 / 26-27 / 24-25 / 21-23 / 0-22
Craftsmanship / Skillful use of clay, smooth
with no rough/sharp areas / 28-30 / 26-27 / 24-25 / 21-23 / 0-22
Stable vessel, not wobbly / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 0-6
Artistic Vision / Created new techniques from those demonstrated, complex form, meticulous detail, excellent craftsmanship / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 0-6