Dec 17th-18th

Happy Holiday Break! Lets talk about extra credit and cut out a lid to our cube.

Dec 14th

Lets re-cap how to miter and begin putting out cubes together with slip and coils.

Dec 10th & 11th

Mitering!

Dec 9th

Finishing our cube sketches and beginning construction.construction

Dec 8th

1st period- I will introduce the new project, ceramic cube/box. Lets get creative!!

Dec 7th

Today is a shorter class period, lets put the final touches on our magnets/ornaments and get back to our cube project.

Dec 4th

Lets finish our ornament/magnet and later start our new project. 

Dec 3rd

Lets begin sgraffito-ing. 

Dec 2nd

Ok, slight hick up in firing, lets make ornaments or magnets. 

Nov 30th

Welcome back, lets talk about sgraffito!

Nov. 19th

Back to our birds. 

Nov. 17th

We will wrap up staining the first half of class, and then begin drawing/sketching for our sgrafitto project. 

Nov 16th

Lets begin staining our vases, the application will be demo'd in class.

Nov 12th

As we finish up our vases I will introduce stain and how it will be applied to our project.

Nov 9th

Group Midterm! We will spend the first half of class taking a group quiz, and then I will walk through the remaining steps of the vase under the document camera.

Nov 5th

Lets start constructing our vase! I will demo on my OSU Beaver design in class!

Nov 2nd

Happy Dia de los Muertos! Lets take today's shortened class period to finish up work!

Oct 29th

Today we will play around with textures and begin designing our vase. 

Oct 27th

While we begin glazing lets learn a bit about wax resist. Today is another work day.

Oct 26th

Work day. Finish mask, work on sugar skull or glaze.

Oct 22nd

Lets take a look at Diego Rivera's work, discuss rights to paintings, and finish up our Dia de los Muertos inspired mask.

Oct 20th &21st

Take a look at today's artist, who makes money installing ceramic tiles.

Oct 15th

Great start to those masks! Lets check our grades, finish up our worksheets, and get back to our Dia de los Muertos inspired projects.

October 12th

We will recap the new project inspired by Dia de los Muertos and I will demo how to use the slab roller and the first few steps to the project.

Check your grades! First six week grades go in the end of this week!

Oct 5th-8th

Lets finish up our coil pots, glaze, and learn a little more about the Day of the Dead.

Oct 1

 Lets finish those coil pots!

Sep 29th

Find your glazed crane! It is now yours to take home! Lets jump back into our coil project!

Sep 28th

We will jump back into our coil project.

Sep 24th

Today we will glaze our cranes and learn about/practice for our next project.

Sep 22nd-23rd

Today we will finish our spoon holders and move onto the stages of clay, if there is time we will learn about glaze and begin glazing our crane.

Sep 21st

Great start on those pinch pots! Lets now put the finishing touches on it!

Sep 15-18th

Lets finish up those clay cranes and begin brainstorming for our pinch pot creature!

Sep 14th

Happy Monday! Lets create our ceramic crane!

Sep 10th

Lets finish those sketchbooks and begin constructing our crane, which we will emulate in clay.

Sep 9th

Welcome! Lets discuss classroom expectations, get to know each other a bit  and jump into sketchbook creations!

Sept 8th

Welcome freshman! Today we will go over school policy, learn a bit about your classroom and teacher, and then write or draw about ourselves. Welcome!

June 9th

Lets take our final and drink cocoa/eat snacks out of our finished mugs.

May 28th

Lets grade another mug!

April 27th

What would you grade these mugs?

May 26th

Continuing

May 22nd

Lets talk about handle designs, as well as how to put them on your mug!

May 20th

Today we will learn how to trim our wheel thrown mugs.

May 19th

Today I will demo wheel throwing, and discuss different ways to build your mug.

May 18th

Starting our final project!

Seniors- you have 10 class periods, I suggest the slab method

May 14th

Continuing with our trivet.

May 13th

Lets take a look at an artist who uses sgraffito professionally.

May 12th

In class I will demo both sgrafitto and wax resist on my trivets.

May 11th

Lets learn about different surface manipulations!

May 6th

Wrapping up with projects this week!

April 30th-continuing

Waiting until the last step to cut out a lid, isn't just something you would do with a square project!

April 29th

Cutting out a fun lid.

April 28th

Continuing with our boxes, lets re-cap mitering and how to apply it to our tiles.

April 24th

Mitering and adjoining!

April 20th-continuing

Continuing sketching for our box project.

Examples will be displayed over the document camera.

April 17th

Nice job on the vases! Lets start our introduction into cubes with mitered joints! Brainstorming today!

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April 14th

Intro to stain! If your vase has been fired, begin staining and glazing. If yours is not out of the kiln get back to your whistle.

April 13th

Finishing up that vase! For those who are finished I challenge you to create a whistle!

Nice job!

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April 8th-continuing

Continuing with our last steps via document camera.

April 6th-continuing

Lets begin slipping and scoring!

April 3rd

Lets continue designing, and I will demo the next few steps over the document camera!

April 2nd

Excellent job experimenting yesterday! Lets practice a bit more, and then start the new project.

Beautiful!

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April 1st

I hope you remembered your textures, lets start experimenting!

March 3oth-31st

Welcome back! Lets spend the day glazing our masks and sugar skulls.

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March 16th-March 18th

Work day. We will be continuing with our Dia de los Muertos project, and for those who are finished they may glaze projects or work on extra credit assignments.

March 13th

I hope things went well with the sub, lets recap the assignment and check out another artist.

March 10th

Those coil pots are fired, lets re-cap techniques and start applying the glaze!

March 9th

Lets take a look at another famous artist and continue with our masks!

March 5th

Quite a few of you started slabbing clay yesterday, lets go over a few tricks over the document camera (like how to make a 3D rose)!

March 4th

Great start on those designs! Today I will introduce the slab roller, and walk you through the first few steps in getting started.

March 3rd

Remember, this does not have to be a day of the dead mask, just follow the requirements and you can turn this into any type of mask you want (ex: Seattle Seahawks, Easter, etc...)

March 2nd

Lets get inspired by the imagery from Dia de los Muertos.

Feb 27th

Last in class day to finish coil pot!

Feb 25th

Back to our coil pot project.

Feb 24th

Continuing glazing our spoon holders

These are so fun!

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Feb 23rd

We will be taking a short break from our coil pots, to begin glazing our spoon holders.

Feb 20th

Take look at this coil project, would this fit the requirements?

Feb 19th

Before we continue with our coil pots, lets take a look at some inspiration!

Feb 18th

Great start guys!

Feb 17th

After our practice rolling coils, we will begin sketching for our coil pot project.

Feb 13th

Continuing with the glazing of our cranes, we will then move onto the next project, coils!

Spoon holders are looking good!

Feb 11th- 12th

Today we will finish our spoon holders, and if there is time, learn about the stages of clay!

Feb 10th

All day work session, if you finish fill out a critique regarding your work!

Feb 9th

Continuing on with our spoon holders

Feb 5th-continuing

Great job making the first pinch pot. Lets make another, and learn how to slip and score to make the base for our project.

If time, I will demonstrate various ways to make eyes, ears, noses and wings.

Feb 4th

Today we will be sketching ideas for our sponge/spoon holder, and if there is enough time we will begin creating our pinch pots/bowls.

Feb 3rd

Today we will finish up our cranes, watch a demo on pinch pots and begin brainstorming for our spoon holder.

Feb 3rd

Continuing with our cranes and a brief introduction to pinch pots.

Feb 2nd

Lets recap wedging and why we do it, and begin constructing our crane out of clay.

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Jan 30th

We will go over our syllabus, finish our origami and learn about wedging.

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Jan 29th

We will finish listening to Sadako, and begin making our peace crane!

Jan 28th

Lets finish up those sketchbooks!

Jan 27th

Welcome to pottery 1! Today we will be introducing classroom rules and policies as well as beginning to create sketchbooks.

Finals

Finals

Jan 13th-continuing

Continuing working on our final projects.

Vans Shoe Extra Credit Opportunity

Jan 7th

Hot cocoa party! Lets use those mugs and discuss art!

Jan 5th-6th

Welcome back! Wednesday we will be having our hot cocoa party! Today is the last day to glaze or work on your mug, I will then give the instructions for your final.

Examples of rough final: