For Monday November 30:
Meet at MFA warehouse at 9:05am. Come prepared with your team to jump right in on the sculpting. Clay will be limited so think creatively on how to stretch your material as needed.
Homework for Monday: find images of sand castle sculptures for inspiration and post here on the blog as a comment to this post. Remember to put the link in the text area of the message!
Get your game face on.
Here’s the calendar for the remainder of the semester:
KILN CLASS
DAY DATE SCHEDULE
R 10-15 Stack bricks, form inlets and collection box,
T 10-20 Cut and weld frame and bolt anchors
R 10-22 Finish walls
T 10-27 Rained out
R 10-29 Weld frame anchors, cut bolts, set arch, tighten frame, finish chimney, insulate castable arch
T 11-3 Test burners, set bag walls, build rain cap for chimneys/kiln?
R 11-5 Research projects due – group presentation and discussion of models – load bisque
T 11-10 Glaze in class and load kiln
R 11-12 Big soda firing – soda in during class, build base for Adobe oven
T 11-17 Adobe oven -
R 11-19 Adobe oven -
T 11-24 Adobe oven – finish forming roof
R 11-26 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY – NO CLASS
T 12-1 Bake Pizza!
R 12-3 ART Basel – no class
I have changed the scope of the research paper just a bit. Here is the new steez.
Choose one (1) of the following topics to research.
Once you have decided on a kiln: research, design, and build a scale model of your kiln. This should be made out of clay which we will fire in one of our kilns.
To accompany your model kiln you will compose in digital format a two (2) page minimum written research paper regarding the following:
Your digital assignment should also include any necessary supporting images or video that you can find. These reports and your scale models will all be displayed and discussed in a “class critique” format rather than presenting to the class as previously planned.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Yes you will provide one of these along with your report. Include at least five (5) references, two of which shoud be from a published book or periodical. This is not to cause you headache, but lets face it, there is still a lot of bogus information on the internet. And yes, an online archived article from a real magazine is acceptable, since we don’t have many ceramics periodicals in the library.
You will find your next assignment on page 46 of your Target packet: Ancient to Contemporary Coiled Vessel.
There are a few changes that need to be made to the way the assignment is originally written. They are as follows:
1. Your vertical height will be 10 inches rather than 15.
2. Print out your 2-3 images of Ancient Vessels and bring them to class with as detailed information about the piece: age, area of origin, size, culture of origin and cite the source of your information. Once I speak with you individually and the final selections are made, you will then post onto the blog the image and information for the vessel you have chosen.
3. Bring sketches a brief written description of how you plan to contemporarily update your ancient vessel.
Be sure to bring in at least 2 in case the form you choose is inappropriate for some reason. Also bring in some material that you can cut to make a template from which to work. Good examples of useful material are: cardboard, old cereal or pizza boxes, manila folders, or some other stiff paper/board.
Your Homework assignment for Wednesday Sept 9: Find a video online of someone demonstrating (even if unofficially) any of the four handbuilding techniques we have covered in class. Put a link to your chosen video in the comments for now, until I figure some better way to link them in. Be sure to put your link in the body of the comment message, NOT where you are given the option of entering a website.
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I am glad to see that a couple of you have already jumped on the homework assignment! For the rest of you, here are a couple more things to think about before linking your video.
1) I challenge you to find a video from someplace other than “Expert Village”. Their camera work is not very good so you can barely see what is happening.
2) Try to find one that is more than 30 seconds long… Don’t just link the first video you find. Let’s get some good ones on here!
Here is the next set of readings for Tuesday Sept 8.
Listed below are your readings, available for download in PDF format. Just click on the link!
