Endangered Species Ceramic Bowl

Purpose:

• 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.

Artist Studied: Artist and Art Culture Studied: Anne London (painter) and Joel Satore (photographer), along with Oaxacan (art) alebrijes from Mexico=

Reflection:

1. Since art is a way of communication it can spread awareness. It allows people to have a voice.I hope that viewers will understand that the palos verdes blue butterfly habitat and food is slowly being destroyed. Hence the decreasing locoweed on my bowl. 

2.  I chose the palos verdes blue butterfly because it's pretty and it stood out to me. The palos verdes blue butterfly is found in California. They live in South Los Angeles, in coastal sage scrub habitat. This animal is threatened because of habitat destruction. The palos verdes blue butterfly usually eats locoweed and deerweed to survive.