Advanced Ceramics

Merging Styles

For this assignment, you will research and combine the styles of two different ceramic artists. Taking any combination of their forms or glazing styles, you will create your own “merged” piece that represents the influences of each artist.

Find artists that work in a way you are comfortable with--for example, if you want to work on the wheel, choose wheel artists, but If you want to handbuild, choose artists that work with slump molding, slab building, coiling etc.

Write a one-page essay to supplement and support your merged project. Include the following:

*One paragraph bio on each artist:

who the artist is

where they work

materials they use/specific types of clay, glaze, kilns

their inspirations, where they get their ideas

any other important or interesting facts

*One paragraph on similarities, differences between the two artists

*One paragraph (or so) on why you chose these two artists: what attracted you to their work, how your style is similar to theirs

The essay and project will be due on or before Friday, May 21

*extra 5 points on each if passed in early*

SOOOO PROUD OF ALL OUR SENIORS!!

The Senior Show looks great, and is still up at the Central Office (next to Harrington school) for viewing from 9-3 each day...the show was entirely put together by students under the direction of Ms. Cara Bean (check out her blog, it's hilarious! beandoodling.blogspot.com)

Here are a few of the Ceramics masters, posing with their work....

Linoleum Tile Relief

This project focuses on texture and depth of the relief you carve. Use either the entire Lino block as a rectangle, or cut it into a square, and draw your design on in pencil.

Carefully carve the design in using the linoleum cutters--try varying the tips you use to get different textures!

Print your tile in the clay at any time to see how your design is going--then turn your finished prints into a slab box, cylinder, trivet or hanging decoration!

HAVE FUN!!

Hollow Forms!

The most fun--and challenging--wheel project of the class....the Hollow Forms project! There are so many different creations you can make with hollow forms, either functional or sculptural...or a bit of both! Here are some ideas for using donut and orb creations.

You will decide where in the range of functional to sculptural your project will be. Combine one wheel-made form with handbuilding techniques, or cut up and reassemble two or more wheel-made forms to create your project!

Advanced Ceramics * Final Review

For your final review in this class, you will choose two of your pieces to compare that show your growth in a specific area. You might choose two wheel pieces, or two handbuilt pieces, or two pieces that were created by different techniques but that show your growth in color and glazing techniques. They can both be from Advanced, or the first one can be from Beginning. Bring both pieces in, and please write an approximately one-page personal assessment of your Ceramics career; be sure to include the following:

*What technique do you feel you have improved the most on in your two semesters as a ceramicist?

*What projects have you found to be the most challenging?

*What are some of the “lessons” you have learned as you have taken both Beginning and Advanced Ceramics?

*Which of your projects are you most proud of?

*Define a theme for your work in Ceramics. What has your focus been on, mostly? Surface decoration? Handbuilding techniques? Wheel work? And within that specific area, how could the viewer tell that each of your pieces is “yours”?

Due Thursday, January 14th

Hollow Forms!!

The most fun--and challenging--wheel project of the class....the Hollow Forms project! There are so many different creations you can make with hollow forms, either functional or sculptural...or a bit of both! Here are some ideas for using donut, orb and pyramid creations.

You will decide where in the range of functional to sculptural your project will be. Combine one wheel-made form with handbuilding techniques, or cut up and reassemble two or more wheel-made forms to create your project!

This is our last project for this class, so whatever you choose...HAVE FUN!!

Our most recent assignment, the Linoleum Tile project, is very open-- these examples are left as flat tiles, but think about how you can create forms out of slabs...boxes, cylinders, slump molded forms etc.