Tammy Marinuzzi
10/14- 21
We will be making monster cookie jars this week. We watched a recording of Tammy Marinuzzi making her pillow people. To access this video go to
http://ceramicartsdaily.org/
create a sign in and then search for Tammy Marinuzzi
Pottery Video of the Week: How to Make Gestural Sculptural Pottery Using Soft Slabs -Part One and part Two
We will be making monster cookie jars this week. We watched a recording of Tammy Marinuzzi making her pillow people. To access this video go to
http://ceramicartsdaily.org/
create a sign in and then search for Tammy Marinuzzi
Pottery Video of the Week: How to Make Gestural Sculptural Pottery Using Soft Slabs -Part One and part Two
Monster Cookie jars
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For the final project of the quarter we have made Monster Cookie jars. These Monsters were made using moist slabs of clay pieced together. This technique is very valuable for hand building projects.
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9/29-10/17
Second year students will be making three bowls. Baby bowl for the olive pits, Mama bowl for eating soup, and Papa bowl for a big salad. Challenging us to work larger and more effectively. Students will Make their home pages and add photos of their cups to their website.
9/22-26
Advanced students will finish their 4 cups with handles. Homework will be to go on to their websites and make a home page. Their websites will be connected to my website. This is their public face as an artist and a place to begin developing a professional image. On the sites we will conduct advanced class blog discussions critiquing the work.
9/29-10/17
Students on the wheel are working on learning how to form a bowl. Additionally the will use hand building to make slab cups. The cups are a blank canvas to tell their story. Cups need to have texture, pattern and words. When they are dry leather hard they need to additionally have color engobe painted on to enhance their designs.
9/22-26
This week first year students will continue to work on learning to use the potters wheel.
Hand builders will refine their walking figures and learn how to add clay to sculptural work.
We will learn about how to apply glaze to our pinch pot bowls.
Course Description
Ceramics 1-3
2014-15
Hello and welcome to Ceramics!
This year is going to be great. We will be starting the term with getting to know the clay. Projects will focus on building the skills needed to construct different types of projects. We will start with a “Pretest” self portrait mask. I use the mask as a test of skills because masks are a good tool for judging our competence with clay formation. We will do another mask at the end of each Semester and compare the to the original.
We will learn wheel throwing and hand building in this class. Each unit there will be a wheel project and a hand built project. Half the class will hand build while the other half is on the wheel. In hand building we will learn how to use pinching, pulling, coiling, and slab building. We will learn to combine parts together so they will not break in finishing the work. We will explore techniques of decorating the work including engobe and glazing. On the wheel we will begin by perfecting skill needed to create pots. You will be graded on your ability to wedge clay, center, open, pull walls, make forms, trim, and glaze.
Journal
Keeping a journal will be your way of keeping a record of your work in the class. Having a journal allows one to have a place to deposit great ideas for projects, keep track of complicated processes, document work, and glazes used. The journal facilitates replication of successes and learning from processes that fail. You are expected to keep a journal please find one that works for you and get your name on it. Classtime and instruction will be given to help facilitate what to do with the journal. I will check your journal with every project. The journal will be 10% of each project grade. Occasionally projects do not make it through to the finished stage. Every assignment will be worth 100 points. Missed work can be made up and turned in any time in the grading period. After the quarter ends make up projects will not be accepted. Assignments that are missing will be recorded as MISSING in Synergy and will not count toward your grade.
Advanced Students will develop a web page to upload photos of your work for our online Critique.
Grading
In this class my hope is all students are able to achieve the score they believe they deserve.
I think of ceramics project scores in three parts.
Ceramics 1-3
2014-15
Hello and welcome to Ceramics!
This year is going to be great. We will be starting the term with getting to know the clay. Projects will focus on building the skills needed to construct different types of projects. We will start with a “Pretest” self portrait mask. I use the mask as a test of skills because masks are a good tool for judging our competence with clay formation. We will do another mask at the end of each Semester and compare the to the original.
We will learn wheel throwing and hand building in this class. Each unit there will be a wheel project and a hand built project. Half the class will hand build while the other half is on the wheel. In hand building we will learn how to use pinching, pulling, coiling, and slab building. We will learn to combine parts together so they will not break in finishing the work. We will explore techniques of decorating the work including engobe and glazing. On the wheel we will begin by perfecting skill needed to create pots. You will be graded on your ability to wedge clay, center, open, pull walls, make forms, trim, and glaze.
Journal
Keeping a journal will be your way of keeping a record of your work in the class. Having a journal allows one to have a place to deposit great ideas for projects, keep track of complicated processes, document work, and glazes used. The journal facilitates replication of successes and learning from processes that fail. You are expected to keep a journal please find one that works for you and get your name on it. Classtime and instruction will be given to help facilitate what to do with the journal. I will check your journal with every project. The journal will be 10% of each project grade. Occasionally projects do not make it through to the finished stage. Every assignment will be worth 100 points. Missed work can be made up and turned in any time in the grading period. After the quarter ends make up projects will not be accepted. Assignments that are missing will be recorded as MISSING in Synergy and will not count toward your grade.
Advanced Students will develop a web page to upload photos of your work for our online Critique.
Grading
In this class my hope is all students are able to achieve the score they believe they deserve.
I think of ceramics project scores in three parts.
- The assignment- students will be assigned a project. The work should show completion of the assigned elements. Failure to do so will result in lost points.
- Craftsmanship- you will be taught specific skills in the various projects and your project should show a mastery of the skill demonstrated.
- Aesthetics- does your work come to life, is it beautiful, have you worked the clay in a way that transforms it from an innert mass to something that feels alive.
9/15-19
Learn to open the centered clay compress the base, and pull the walls for a cup.
Hand builders will make test tiles and a walking figure.
9/8-12/14
This week we will begin working on the wheel and with making a pinch pot bowl.
Half the class will work on the wheel at a time. We will trade off half way through each class with hand building. Students will learn how to properly center the clay and how to form a bowl in their hands.
Masks- Portraits of our selves 9/5/14
9/3/14
Our first assignment will be to create a stamp to help identify your work. This project is based on the Ancient writing created in Sumer 5000 years ago.
Our first assignment will be to create a stamp to help identify your work. This project is based on the Ancient writing created in Sumer 5000 years ago.