Food 4 Thought 

For the ceramics food for thought, art projects I teamed up with Kaori Brown, and we created five pieces that focused around a Central question of "How can I create a sustainable in Houston food system that promote cultural diversity, health and social equity. Step one in this process was researching different types of ceramics and pottery. We researched African, Greek, Native American, and others and their differences and similarities. such as African and Greek pottery having practical uses while african and native american  also had ceremonial uses. We watched Videos and read articles on how to create accurate pieces while also intertaning our own art styles. We brainstormed a few things that we thought would make a really cool pottery and decided that we should definitely include Caribbean and African building techniques, and we should use pigments naturally found in those region since you weren’t able to accurately find those pigments, we decided to choose colors that were close. we created sketches and made prototypes in after a while of trail and error. We decided on our final pieces and making one shell plate, one fish plate, a octopus shell plate, a flower centerpiece, a small table, centerpiece, and then a gourd for drinking.

The tessellation place mat project for geometry was a project where we had to make a placemat for the ceramics that we made in art. The idea behind the placemats was bringing awareness to food, insecurity, and food deserts. Each  student had to create a slogan and an idea that related to the topic. I chose to make my slogan “Food does not equal survival” because I believe that food can be a celebration or part of your culture like the type of foods that you eat when you eat how you eat can all be connected to your culture. For the geometry part of this assignment we had to cut out a Tessellation and repeatedly place it down and trace. We create a story for the piece that goes inside of each shape. I chose to do a birthday party with birthday cake and gifts because of me believing that you can also be for celebration.