Dec 20th & 21st

Final touches on our cubes, and for those who are finished I will introduce your final assignment: The Personalized Mug. 

Dec 13th & 14th

Sealing up our cube

Dec 11th & 12th

Butt vs Miter

Dec 10th

Finishing up our tiles

Dec 6th & 7th

Continuing with our individual tiles

Dec. 4th & 5th

Continuing with our squares

Dec. 3rd

Re-capping the cube and beginning our first few steps in clay

Nov 29th & 30th

Let's begin designing our cubes

Nov. 27th & 28th

Wrapping up glazing and fun projects!

Nov 26th

Let's glaze our fabulous birdhouses and if you are waiting on your's to be fired, feel free to create ornaments or magnets for the fridge

Nov 15th & 16th

Our last in class work day to finish our textured birdhouse

Nov 13th

Wrapping up our birdhouses

Nov 8th & 9th

Today we will be popping holes in the birdhouse so it can be hung after the firing/glazing process

Nov. 6th & 7th

Hopi artist creates textures!

Nov 5th

Continuing with our birdhouse

Nov 1st & 2nd

Adding details to our birdhouse

Oct 30th & 31st

Beginning to construct our birdhouse

Oct 29th

Beginning to practice with textures and introducing our next assignment, the textured birdhouse.

Oct 25th & 26th

Applying masonry stain to our small sugar skulls

Oct 23rd & 24th

Learning about masonry stain

Oct 22nd

Wrapping up our Dia de los Muertos project

Oct 18th & 19th

Mixed media with ceramics?!

Oct 16th & 17th

If someone pays for your work do they have the right to destroy it?

Oct 15th

How was this made?

Oct 8th

How did they make the mask rounded?

Oct 4th & 5th

Lets look at past examples and see if they meet the requirements!

Oct 2nd & 3rd

Continuing with our projects at hand

Oct 1st

Today we will learn about Jose Posada and how to create a 3D rose

Sept 27th & 28th

Re-capping our Dia de los Muertos inspired project

Sept 25th & 26th

Introducing our Dia de los Muertos inspired project

Sept 24th

Lets finish glazing and begin our coil practice

Sept 20th & 21st

Finishing up our spoon holders and learning to glaze!

Sept 18th & 19th

Today we will learn how to burnish our projects smooth!

 

Sept 17th

Continuing with our spoon holders

Sept 13th & 14th

We will start our spoon holder creations today!

Sept 11th & 12th

Finishing our peace cranes and beginning to design our first pinch pot project

Sept 10th

 Finishing up our peace cranes and learning how to wedge
 

Sep 6th & 7th

Lets create a peace crane out of paper and then begin constructing out of clay.

Sept 5th

Welcome to Ceramics 1!

June 12th-14th

Finals!

June 11th

We will put the final touches on our projects and clean out our cubbies.

June 7th & 8th

Stain sgraffito or wax?! Let's discuss!

June 5th & 6th

Finishing up our mugs and learning about wax resist. 

June 4th

Let's talk about handles!

May 31st & June 1st

Learning to trim a mug, as well as walking through the various ways to create a mug!

May 29th & 30th

Learning how to wheel throw, and starting to design our final mug!

May 24th & 25th

Putting the final touches on our cubes, and learning about sgraffito!

May 14th-23rd

Sealing up the cube

I like what I am seeing!

May 8th & 9th

Butt versus miter

May 7th

Continuing with our cubes.

May 1st - 4th

Continuing with our cubes

April 30th

Re-capping our next project, the cube. 

April 25th

Putting the final touches on our birdhouses and beginning to design our cube

April 19th & 20th

Wood or clay?

April 17th & 18th

Today we will discuss masonry stain

April 16th

Final touches to our birdhouse!

April 10th & 11th

Continuing with the textured bird house

April 9th

Re-capping the textured birdhouse and beginning construction

April 5th & 6th

Experimenting with textures and beginning to design our textured birdhouse.

April 3rd & 4th

Last day to work on your D.O.D. inspired mask, lets work on an ornate sugar skull for extra credit.

April 2nd

Welcome back! Let's put the final touches on our Dia de los Muertos inspired wall hanging, and discuss extra credit

March 20th

If someone buys your art, do they have the right to destroy it? Let's discuss!

March 19th

How did they make that?

March 15th & 16th

Continuing with our masks

March 13th & 14th

Continuing with our Dia de los Muertos inspired wall hanging.

March 12th

Lets learn how to make a 3D rose!

March 7th & 8th

Today we will re-cap our newest assignment and learn how to use the slab roller.

March 1st & 2nd

Last day to finish the coiled vessel. If we finish early we will start designing a Dia de los Muertos inspired wall hanging.

Feb 27th & 28th

Does she coil? Or carve to look like coiling?

Feb 26th

Lets take a look at an artist who uses coils to create human forms

Feb 22nd & 23rd

Continue coiling 

February 20th & 21st

Beginning to construct our coil assignment

Feb 15th & 16th

Today we will learn about secondary clay, practice coiling, and brainstorm for our next project. 

Feb 13th & 14th

Finishing up our spoon holders and learning how to glaze today!

Feb 12th

Putting the final touches on our spoon holders

Feb 8th

Today we will discuss burnishing and how it can smooth your surfaces!

Feb 6th

Continuing with our spoon holder assignment

Feb 5th

Today we will finish our spoon holder sketches and begin creating our pinch pots.

Feb 1st & 2nd

Lets start creating our origami peace crane out of clay!

Jan 30th & 31st

We will finish our sketchbooks and move on to our first mini assignment, our peace cranes. 

Jan 29th

Welcome to Pottery 1!

Jan 23rd-25th

Finals!

Jan 22nd

Last in class day to glaze, study for final and clean up work spaces.

Jan 18th

Glazing our mugs

Jan 16th

Today we will learn 2 new surface decorations we could apply to our mug!

Jan 11th

Making handles

Jan 9th

Walking through ways to make your mug

Jan 8th

Lets deconstruct mugs and begin creating ours!

Jan 4th

Today I will show you how to trim a mug. Let's put the final touches to our cubes and begin designing our last project, a mug!