Jan 2nd

Lets finish up our cubes and begin wheel throwing.  made paper

Jan 2nd

Welcome back! Lets put the final touches on our cube and if there is time learn how to wheel throw a mug!

Dec 12th

Sealing cube up!

Dec 5th-11th

Lets begin adding the details to our sides. 

Dec 4th

Re-capping cube requirements

Nov 30th

Lets put the final touches on our vase and start the cube!

Dec 29th

Final touches to our vases and begining to design our cubes.

Nov 28th

Textured ceramic cities!

Nov 27th

Welcome back, lets recap the steps to our vase and assess what stage of clay our projects are in. 

Nov 16

Final touches to our vases. 

Nov 14th

Continuing with our vase. 

Nov 13th

Continuing with our textured vase. 

Nov. 8th

Starting our textured vases. 

Nov 6th

Grab your textures and lets do some experimenting!

Nov. 3rd

Last in class day to work on wall hanging assignment. Lets talk about masonry stain!

Oct 31st

Happy Halloween, lets take a look at an artist who creates fun characters! 

Oct 30th

Continuing with our project

Oct 26th

If someone buy's your artwork do they have the right to destroy it?! Let's discuss!

Oct 24th

Continuing with our masks. 

Oct 23rd

Continuing with our masks

Oct 19th

Continuing with our Dia de los Muertos inspired wall hanging. 

Oct 17th

Today we will learn how to create a 3D rose, and discuss Jose Pasada's calaveras. 

Oct 16th

Welcome back! Lets re-cap the project at hand. 

Oct 5th

Finishing up our coil pots and beginning to brainstorm for our Dia de los Muertos inspired wall hanging. 

Oct 3rd

Take a look at this artist who often uses coils in her work. 

If there is time we will glaze our spoon holders. 

Oct 2nd

Lets continue coiling!

Sept 28th

Lets take a look at an artist who makes coils 12 inches thick!!

Sept 26th

Lets begin our coiled vessel! 

Sept 25th

Lets create some coils!

Sept 21st

Final touches to spoon holder and then we will learn how to glaze!

Sep 19th

Finishing our spoon holders. 


Some really cool stuff is coming out of the kiln!

Sep 18th

Continuing with our spoon holders and learning about burnishing.

Sep 14th

After brainstorming, lets begin creating our spoon holder creature!

Sept 12th

Lets put the final touches on our cranes and begin brainstorming for our pinch pot assignment!

Sept 11th

Lets learn how to wedge and start making a ceramic crane!

Sept 7th & 8th

Lets finish our sketchbooks and begin constructing our peace cranes. 

September 6th

Welcome to Pottery!

June 15th

Finals!

June 12th

Final touches to our mugs!

Remember its the last day to glaze!

June 8th

Putting the final touches on our mugs. 

Remember in order to fire and glaze projects need to be in the kiln room no later than Friday. Anything turned in after Friday might not be fired in time for the final.

June 6th

Continuing with our mugs

June 5th

We will learn about sgrafitto, and continue with our mugs. 

June 1st

Attaching handles to our mugs!

May 30th

We will re-cap methods of construction over the document camera for your last project, the personalized mug.

May 25th & 26th

We will be finishing our cubes, and beginning to brainstorm for our mug. 

May 23rd & 24th

Lets learn how to wheel throw. 

May 22nd

Lets finish those cubes!

May 18th & 19th

Lets learn about undercuts and complete the last few steps of our cubes. 

May 16th & 17th

Lets attach the lid and fill seams with leatherhard clay. 

May 11th-15th

Over the document camera we will learn how to miter our tiles so that we make a perfect cube who's sides all match up! 

May 3rd & 4th

Lets begin our cube assignment. 

May 2nd

Last day to finish vases. If time I will introduce the cube assignment. 

May 1st

Putting the final touches on our vases.

April 26th & 27th

Continuing with our vases

April 24th

Continuing with our vase.

April 20th & 21st

Continuing with our textured vase. 

April 17th-19th

Continuing with our textured vase.

April 13th & 14th

I hope you remembered your homework, lets play around with texture and take a look at the next assignment. 

April 11th

Last in class day to finish Dia de los Muertos inspired wall hanging. 

April 10th

Lets learn about Wax resist and how/why we would apply to ceramics. 

April 4th & 5th

Continuing with our masks and introducing an extra credit opportunity! 

April 3rd

Welcome back! I hope we sealed our masks up nice and tight and they are leatherhard: the best time to carve and cut our final details.

March 22nd & 23rd

Lets learn about a mold.

March 20th

Lets talk about commissioned artwork and discuss ownership/rights. 

March 16th & 17th

Continuing with our ornate wall hanging. 

March 14th-15th

Continuing with our Dia de los Muertos inspired wall hanging. 

March 13th

Re-capping the project at hand.

March 9th

Lets begin our next project inspired by Dia de los Muertos designs. 

March 6th

Last day to work on coils in class.

March 2nd and 3rd

Lets deconstruct an artists work and continue coiling.

Feb 28th & 29th

Finishing up our coil plates

Feb 27th

Look at this artist who uses coils!

Feb 23rd & 24th

Continuing with our coils. 

Feb 21st & 22nd

Continuing with our coil projects. 

Feb 16th & 17th

Lets take a look at our fired cranes, and start our next coil project. 

Feb 13th

Lets finish those spoon holders and learn about burnishing

Feb 9th & 10th

Continuing with our spoon holders...

Feb 6th-8th

Lets finish those sketches and begin our pinch pot creature.

Feb 2nd & 3rd

Lets start with clay! If there is time we will go over our first assignment using pinch pots.

Jan 31st & Feb 1st

Lets finish our sketchbooks and begin our peace crane.

Jan 30th

Welcome to Pottery 1! 

Jan Finals

Finals

Jan 17th & 18th

Lets learn how to wheel throw, finish our cubes and if time begin the extra credit. 

Jan 10th-13th

Lets cut our lids out. 

Jan 5th & 6th

Lets watch how to piece the cube together, and continue with our project!

Jan 3rd

Welcome back! The snow days & winter break hindered our ability to finish our cube, so we will assess where we are at (start over if necessary) and continue with the project at hand.