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To become familiar with using endangered species as an art subject
To learn about photographer, Joel Satore and painter, Anne London, as well as the highly patterned art (alebrijes) from Oaxaca, Mexico
To become acquainted with basic ceramic vocabulary
To form and paint a ceramic animal bowl that contains both imagery of an endangered or threatened species of your choice and indication of the systems around it which promote that animal’s survival.
New England Cottontail, ceramic bowl
Reflection:
The bowls helped bring awareness to the endangered species because they could help get the name/idea of the animals in their minds along with their habitats/food source so that they could try to lessen the damage. A message that the viewers could get, could again to get an idea of what the species need for survival so they could try their best to keep those things where they are without destroying them so they can live as long as possible.
I chose the New England Cottontail partly because I thought it was interesting but also because it could be found all over New England. It’s found across all of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, southern Maine, North to Southern Vermont and New hampshire, and east of the Hudson River in New York. They prefer to live in early successional forests with thick and tangled vegetation within them. It’s endangered because of habitat loss though out New England. I used flowers to help describe what it eats along with something that kinda not really represents a branch/twig. I also used grass to represent something that it also eats along with grass also being a part of it’s habitat.
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