Course Syllabus
WELCOME TO CERAMICS!
WHEEL THROWING WITH AMIE CILUFFO LARSON
VIRTUAL STUDIO TOUR WITH MS. LARSON
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Tuesday Feb. 1, 2021
https://wellesleyps.zoom.us/j/87411865045?pwd=ZXc3ZEZzSytxeXpDa3JMNlFHajFLZz09
Meeting ID: 874 1186 5045
Password: 217152
Week of January 19-22
Tuesday 1/19--I will explain glazing to EVERYONE!!!
Remote cohort-use the remainder of our time to create a geometric design on the bisque vessel you brought home.
Wednesday 1/20---I will remotely guide the in-person cohort on glazing and explain the geometric design assignment to the remote cohort.
Copy of email I sent home January 8, 2021:
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Week of January 4-8
Welcome Back!!! This week we will be focusing on functional teapots.
Remote:
I have a 20 minute video to show on an artist and then you will spend time sketching and making a 3D mock-up for a teapot you plan to make in class. Use your oil clay for the mock up and any paper you have for the sketches. Please upload 3 ITEMS by the end of class:
1. Your page of sketches
2. Your 3D Mock-up of your teapot
3. Your reflection on the video
All of this can be found in MODULES: Artist Series Akira Satake
In Person:
Finish glazing work from before the break and then begin work on your teapot!
Those of you who are present remotely, but should be in class, here is your extra assignment that needs to be completed: Open THIS
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1/2 Day Wednesday Dec. 16
Look at the foil art of two famous artists:
Tom Friedman-(his statement taken from Artsy)
"Tom Friedman’s sculpture is recognizable for its highly inventive and idiosyncratic use of materials like Styrofoam, foil, paper, clay, wire, plastic, hair, and fuzz. Working autobiographically, Friedman uses painstaking, labor-intensive methods to recreate seemingly random elements from his life. In each piece, he pays obsessive attention to detail, particularly in the replication of the objects that surround him. In Untitled (Bouquet) (2010), random objects appear to balance precariously on top of a studio crate, but the crate is actually made from Styrofoam and painted to look like a crate. “Art, for me, is a context to slow the viewer’s experience from their everyday life in order to think about things they haven’t thought about,” Friedman explains. “Or to think in a new way.”
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/tom-friedman-huddle
Toshihiko Mitsuya
Born and works currently in Japan
https://www.toshihikomitsuya.com/works/works19.html
Sketch from one of these amazing artists. Upload your sketch to the Module!
Week of Dec. 14-18
Remote:
Upload your reflection from the Hand Willis Thomas assignment...under Modules!
In person:
Trim and glaze!
Week of Dec. 1-4
In class: Evaluate your tumblers and try to do it again!
Remote:
1. Look at this artist-
https://www.hankwillisthomas.com/WORKS/Sculpture/thumbs
Using FOIL, make your own sculpture inspired by Hank Willis Thomas. Be prepared to write and share an artist statement for this piece!
2. Using your Oil Clay, make one of the foods you ate on Thanksgiving Day. A slice of pie, turkey, hot apple cider...
UPLOAD images of both of your works to the Modules!
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Weekly UPDATES Nov. 16-Nov. 20
1/2 day Plan:
Basquiat:
Why Is Jean-Michel Basquiat Hip-Hop's Favorite Artist?
Trimming your tumbler:
Trimming a tumbler on the wheel
Chattering on the wheel:
Remote Assignment this week: Play with Oil Clay! Use this image to inspire a magical creature of your own. Feel free to find other inspirational images/illustrations to use. I will add a Module for Oil Clay and you will upload a picture of your object there. Be ready to discuss as a class!
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Weekly UPDATES Nov. 1-5
Monday Indoor lunch in Little Theater!!! 1st lunch!
ZOOM for 1/2 Day today is the 1/2 Day zoom link!!!
Remote Assignment this week:
Use the canvas that is in your Remote Art Tool Kit along with sharpies, paint, pencils, white out or anything else you have to create a piece of graffiti-inspired art based on the work of Jean-Michel Basquait.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
https://www.artsy.net/artist/jean-michel-basquiat
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Wednesday October 21
Throwing Videos:
Centering:
Opening & Pulling Walls:
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Monday October 19
Good morning! See you all at 11:45...remember we have first lunch in TENT E!
Remote Assignment: Define all the clay terms Due Wednesday
Object Self Portrait Due Wednesday before class. During our class you will have time to view work by your peers and post comments to their work.
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Monday October 5, 2020
WE HAVE 1st LUNCH!!! Remote students, I will see you on ZOOM at 11:45!!!
GREEN BLOCK LUNCH for us will be in TENT E!!!
Loose Ends:
-Please pay your LAB FEE (Links to an external site.)
-Please be sure your Experience with Covid work is uploaded! Use this site (Links to an external site.) to convert .heic files to .jpg if you are having trouble!
-Click on the MODULES tab to your left to look through the syllabus, grading, virtual field trip and take the QUIZ! This is DUE Wednesday October 7 by 8am!
SUBMIT THE DEFINITION NEXT TO EACH OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS;
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Clay Body Terms
- clay body- type of clay. This refers to the color and firing temperature
- greenware- clay that is RAW, unfired. This term is used to describe clay before it goes into the kiln for the first time.
- earthenware-low fire clay body
- stoneware-mid fire clay body. This is what we use!
- porcelain- high fire clay body
- bisqueware- term given to clay once it has gone through the kiln. It can NO LONGER be re-used!
- glazeware- term given to clay once it has been glazed
- leatherhard- greenware clay that holds it's shape, but can still be carved into.
- plasticity- flexibility of the clay. The plasticity of a clay body refers to the amount of flexion the clay will tolderate.
- porocity- refers to how porous the clay body is and the small air pockets left behind as the clay is fired.
Study these terms!!
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Tuesday Sept. 22
Zoom 11-12:15!
Check in for 10 minutes then you will have time to complete your Covid Art and upload to Canvas.
Check out at the end!
To discuss:
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Monday Sept. 21, 2020
Good morning Ceramic Artists! Our zoom will be 11:00-12:15pm today. Use the link below or click on zoom to the left! See you soon!
Netiquette Norms (Links to an external site.)
Ms. Larson
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Hello and welcome the ceramics wheel throwing! We will be using a variety of material this year in class both on and off the potter's wheel: at home and in our WHS Ceramics studio. Below you will find the zoom links for our Wednesday meetings AND for your remote learning day for Green block Week A! I will continue to update Canvas and all the information you need will be right here.
Looking forward to meeting you and working with all of you!
Ms. Larson
Thursday 9/17 GREEN 9:20-9:55
Zoom link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://wellesleyps.zoom.us/j/97689280280?pwd=SnNjalA2bmNwTnhZTSs2dm5ZSUxDdz09
Meeting ID: 976 8928 0280
Password: 4x&08d<30
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Wednesday 1/2 Day Zoom-Week A GREEN (8:40-9:00):
Join Zoom Meeting
https://wellesleyps.zoom.us/j/92702078425?pwd=azQxVmVTMUtyemZucVZpSjhyR3QxZz09
Meeting ID: 927 0207 8425
Password: 0n*42i@80
Monday's & Tuesday's Week A GREEN Block (11:00-1:00pm * This includes lunch time-stay tuned!)
Zoom for your remote day:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://wellesleyps.zoom.us/j/95688897668?pwd=ZGdZT3ZlN092cUE3bzArUFhyRFVHZz09
Meeting ID: 956 8889 7668
Password: 1a+79i_39
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