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 the 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 an indication of the systems around it which promote that animal’s survival.

It can spread awareness about the reason for its endangerment by making the animal(s) themself(s) more well known, by making the animal(s) more well known more people will be aware of the reason they are endangered. We can spread awareness of the necessary systems for the survival of endangered animals like the Devil's hole pupfish by using them in art and making them more known to people. The message that I am trying to send with my bowl is that the Devil's hole pupfish is a fish that is very small in number and its species is very unique in its environment, they are very susceptible to changes in groundwater.

The animal that I chose for my bowl is the Devil’s Hole Pupfish, I chose it because it sounded interesting to me. The Devil’s Hole Pupfish is found only in Nevada. The Devil’s Hole Pupfish lives in Devil’s Hole in Death Valley National Park in Nevada. The Devil’s Hole Pupfish is endangered because of the only place where the species lives can be easily disturbed. I used a wavy pattern of red and orange to symbolize the algae the fish eats as the red and the rocks that the algae grow on being orange.