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.

Florida Panther, ceramic bowl, 6 x 8 inches, Joel Satore

Making my bowl I think it raises awareness of animal endangerment. A lot of people don’t know what animals are endangered. I tried to make the panther out in the open with no protection because the reason they’re endangered is that they are being overhunted. They don’t have any protection from the hunters.

I chose the Florida panther because I have two cats at home and I had no idea that they were endangered. This kind of pather lives in Florida more specifically the everglades. Its endangered people are hunting them too much. I made a leaf pattern on its body because it lives in the everglades where there is a lot of foliage. The blue zig-zag represents a river because the everglades is a wet swampland with a lot of water and small streams and rivers.