CLAY

CERAMIC ART FORMS Clay; if you wish!!! Duxbury High School Julie Papageorge P2,4,& 5

Welcome Ceramic Art Forms Students!!!

 Hello and greetings! Welcome to the wonderful world of Clay! This WIKI will help and guide you through this semester's class and homework. I will be listing assignments, handouts, tutorials and pertinent paper work including the syllabus and class contract.  History? History of Ceramics? Really, do we have to? Yeah you do! <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Lets know where we came from as clay artists!! <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Check out this video for a warp speed crash presentation of Ceramics throughout history.

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<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Now that your head is spinning like a pottery wheel, lets talk clay!

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What is clay? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; display: block; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-decoration: inherit;">Clay is Earth, Dirt, and/or Mud, you might answer; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">well kinda.... But more specifically.......... <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-decoration: inherit;"> Clay differs from the inelastic earths and fine sand because of its ability, when wet with the proper amount of water, to form a cohesive mass and to retain its shape when molded. This quality is known as clay’s plasticity. When heated to high temperatures, clay also partially melts, resulting in the tight, hard rock-like substance known as ceramic material. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-decoration: inherit;"> WOW!! <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: inherit;">Here is a calendar for all the assignments and quizzes that are scheduled for this semeste <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">r media type="googlecalendar" key="jpapageorge%40duxbury.k12.ma.us" ARG0="&ctz=America/New_York" height="600" width="800" align="center"

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Here is your Syllabus <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">.....and your Class Expectations and Contract <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 60%;"> For your first journal entry I would like you to think about the question posed below. Please answer it in your sketchbook by Monday, January 16th. Also post your answer in the discussion box below, so that we can share responses and keep a running dialog on the subject. THANKS!!! include component="comments" page="CLAY" limit="25" <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;"> <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-size: 130%; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;">A potter molds pottery with his hands while operating the mechanical potter's wheel with his foot, 1902 <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;">We will soon be wedging clay to throw on the wheel. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;">Here is a quick video that shows one of the techniques available to you. I wedge this way myself. You will be trying it next week, so get ready and get excited!!!! media type="youtube" key="WPXZbVdSgUI" height="315" width="420" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; text-decoration: inherit;">HOW TO THROW A POT IN 15 SECONDS <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; text-decoration: inherit;">media type="youtube" key="Jx1t5v66TSI" height="315" width="420" align="center" http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-robert-arneson-11807%20 Color Man, 1973 glazed ceramic 17 x 20 x 12 inches RAs 220 Robert Arneson. Brick Bang. 1976. Clay, glaze. 38 x 48 x 15 cm. Gift of Joan E. Mannheimer. //Up Against It,// 1980 color lithograph, edition 35 40 x 30"
 * Robert Arneson**