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.

Reflection: I’m helping respond with this project because my plate shows an endangered species. The bowl shows what the endangered species is threatened by and also what it needs to live. On my plate, the animal is an ocelot. They are threatened by deforestation due to farm expansion and city building. To show this, I used a tree pattern because they live in forested areas. I also used a lot of patterns to show nature, like the grass and water, which are also important to them.

For this project, I chose an ocelot. I chose this animal because I thought it would be interesting to research an animal that no one knows much about. Ocelots live in the United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America. This project was specifically focused on endangered animals in the United States, where they are found in Texas and Arizona.