Sandburg High School
ART DEPARTMENT
Course Outline and Schedule:
McCabe's
Course Description:
In Ceramics we learned a few techniques in forming and assembling clay. Advanced Ceramics will build “ideas and concepts” onto those beginning lessons; students will be in charge of designing their projects and how they will create them.
The course is divided into two major areas:
Hand-building includes the basic techniques necessary for the construction of pinch pot, coil pot, press mold pot, etc.; including a variety of decorative effects.
Throwing on the potter’s wheel includes both utilitarian forms, such as bowls, vases, teapots, etc., as well as sculptural forms.
Unit 1:
Advanced Ceramics students will design a LAMP!
-Students will draft a PLAN for their Lamp design.
-Students will construct a Lamp.
Worksheet
Unit 2:
The Potter's Wheel is a challenging tool to learn, but is gratifying and rewarding when given the time.
-Students will learn the formal steps of throwing on the potter's wheel.
-Students will learn to throw a cylinder and a bowl.
...watch the Whichford Pottery gang...
Process & Steps: ...for a cylinder
Step 1- Centering and Wheel wedging
Step 2- Preparing Bottom!....Cylinder!
Step 3- Pulling Walls.
Step 4- Shaping.
Step 5- Trimming Excess.
2. Bowl Form with trimmed foot
Process & Steps: ...for a bowl!
Step 1- Centering and Wheel wedging
Step 2- Preparing Bottom!....Bowl?
Step 3- Pulling Walls.
Step 4- Shaping.
Step 5- Trimming Excess.
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After our wheel intro week, students can choose which UNIT 2 track
they want to follow, the wheel above or choice below:
Unit 2:
Choice Project- Pick 2! or come up with something....
Advanced Ceramics students will agree to 2 projects within a set time frame!
-Students will research and gather multiple ideas to discuss and choose from.
-Students will draft a PLAN for their 2 designs.
Unit 3:
Advanced Ceramics RAKU-
Advanced Ceramics students will design their own project for this RAKU workshop.
-Students will construct artworks using a specific RAKU clay body (High Grog) to make work for the RAKU firing process.
Worksheet
Rubric
Unit ? :
Students have already made a TEAPOT in Ceramics 1.
Students will now design a teapot by infusing animal characteristics into a teapot form.
TeaPot Rubric
Press Mold TeaPot BODY Videos:
4. TEA POT Assembly
TeaPot Lid Videos:
1. Collect LID Parts
2. How to Make Spouts
Amy Konaszewski, "Heart Fountain"
-Independent Study
Artist Bio's-
Steven Hill- vid1, vid2, vid3, vid4,
Ayumi Horie- vid1, vid2, vid3, vid4, vid5
Dick Lehman- vid1, vid2, vid3,
Lorna Meaden- vid1, vid2, vid3, vid4,
Justin Rothshank- vid1, vid2, vid3,
Brett Kern- vid1, vid2,