For the past two weeks, Ceramics 1 students have been learning to shape clay in the most basic way, pinching. Starting with a small piece of clay, they pinched and shaped the clay in a variety of vessels. Some students made bowls, others made baskets, and some made vases. They explored the tools in the […]
I have been working to include more student choice in the ceramics classes. Looking back to the fall semester I think this was my most successful attempt at teaching basic handbuilding skills while allowing for more student input. So for the first time, not every student built a coiled bowl or an artwork from an […]
This year the Level 1 project is “Up Close”. I really struggled with how to present the theme to ceramics classes. One class period students rotated through stations, completing three of the four. One Nearpod activity introduced photographers who played with scale in their work. In another video students saw the work of Chuck Close […]
This week, students commented on their peers’ blogs. We used the same procedure, T.A.G., for commenting as we used on gallery walks and peer progress checks during the first semester. I learned the T.A.G. strategy from Sheri Callahan, the art teacher at Hinson Middle School. T stands for “tell them something you like about their […]