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Exploring Complex Forms with Wheel-thrown Parts
Exploring Complex Forms with Wheel-thrown Parts
January 2025
Ceramics 3 students worked in pairs to discover new possibilities with their wheel thrown work by overlapping, stacking, combining, and changing the orientation of paper pottery forms. Students will then design and create their own complex forms with wheel thrown clay parts.
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Framing Patterns
Framing Patterns
October 2024
Ceramics 2 students increased their comfort level using a brush by covering a large paper with brush marks and framing compositions with a circular stencil. These framed compositions were then translated to the interior of their ceramic bowls.
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Tallest Tower Contest
Tallest Tower Contest
October 2024
In small groups, Ceramics 1 students competed to build the tallest tower using 25 lbs of clay. Strategies were formed, plans were scrapped and reworked, towers toppled, screams and laughter ensued. Valuable lessons about gravity and soft clay were learned. A new all time record of 50 inches (!) was established.
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Japan Trip, June 2024
In June 2024, Directed Study: Ceramics students traveled to Japan for a 10 day tour from Kyoto to Tokyo to immerse themselves in local culture through the lens of ceramic arts. One of the many experiences on the trip involved decorating pre-made pots at a studio near the town of Mashiko. Mashiko is tremendously significant in the world of ceramics, as it became the home of highly influential artist Shoji Hamada. Students used metal oxide washes to decorate the pots, which were then covered in a clear glaze. The generous artists at Tsukamoto pottery studio were kind enough to ship the finished pottery from their studio in Japan to Horace Mann School.
Found Objects Project
Found Objects Project
Students built pots with household objects.
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Meaningful Cups Project
Meaningful Cups Project
In response to Chris Staley's work, students created a series of cup sketches which were then folded in half and assembled to discover new contour changes and pattern combinations.
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Framing Colors and Patterns Project
Framing Colors and Patterns Project
Students designed pots by cutting and folding paper, creating a pottery shaped "frame." They then used this frame to discover new designs from their environment.
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