Art 10

Ceramic Unit
Form, Function & Surface with Clay & Glaze

Established Goals TRANSFER GOAL

Students will DRAWINGS

1)Practice and ex-
Articulate and Evaluate
USE THE VOCABULARY AND TECHNIQUES OF ART CRITICISM TO
periment with ANALYZE THEIR OWN WORKS COMPOSITIONS
skills and tech-
COMPOSITIONS
niques in clay
Organizations 1
2) Create 3 dimen- EXPERIMENT WITH VARIOUS REPRESENTATIONAL FORMATS.
sional, functional Relationships 2
objects using ce-
USE THE VOCABULARY OF ART CRITICISM TO DEVELOP AND AC-
CEPT ANALYSES OF THEIR OWN WORK.
ramic processes of
firing and glazing
ENCOUNTERS
Sources of Images
3) Use decorative INVESTIGATE THE PROCESS OF ABSTRACTING FORM FROM A
motifs, form and SOURCE IN ORDER TO CREATE OBJECTS AND IMAGES.
color to express Impact of Images
ideas BECOME AWARE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FUNCTION
AND FORM IN ARTISTIC PRODUCTIONS.
MEANING

Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions:

Students will understand….
Students will keep considering…
U1- Describing and discussing me-
dia and techniques will develop vo- Q1- How to talk about ceramic processes
cabulary and outcomes
U2- Materials alter outcomes and
Q2- How can we use clay as a medium for
processes used in achieving certain expression?
intended effects
U3- Artists select from natural forms Q3- Where do our ideas for patterns and
in order to develop decorative mo- décor come from?
tifs.
U4 -Simplified form communicates Q4- How do we ‘read’ function?
the purpose and function of designed
objects.
U5 -The function of an artwork can
be emphasized by its decoration.

ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

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 Students will know… Students will be skilled at…

Skills and techniques used to create Ceramic techniques such as slab roll-
functional objects in clay ing, slip and score and sgrafitto

Use of slip and glaze to create color
and surfaces to enhance use
The techniques of ceramic process
including slab rolling, slip and score,
firing and glazing
Glaze and slip application and use
Creating functional forms and surfaces
with clay and glaze
Depicting meaning through materials

How to derive motifs from our sur-

roundings

Lesson Sequence:
Lessons #1 Bowl Making

Students are shown a series of slides showing the range of possibilities of bowl forms. Slides de-
pict both student work and contemporary ceramics. Materials are distributed. Using a pinch pot
method and press mold method, student create their own bowl form. The second day, students
re-visit the bowl to address the surface and expressive aspects. They are shown techniques of
attaching (slip and score) painting with contrasting slip colors (white on red) carving with vari-
ous line weight (sgrafitto) and a variety of other surface techniques such as burnishing or stamp-
ing. The bowls are dried and bisque fired. In the third learning activity of this lesson, the stu-
dents will glaze their bowls. A lesson on glazing is given and students spend time applying the
glaze. Pieces are then fired a final time. The work is reflected on in a peer critique.
Key Questions:
 Did the students utilized skills with their chosen material to create a functional object?
 Were they able to add or embellish their bowl?
 Were they able to communicate through motifs or markings on the surface of their bowl?
 Did they gain experience with the material?

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Lesson #2 Plates and Tiles

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Additional Lesson Ideas

 Talk About Ceramic Surface and their Potential

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB24yj1xqCc

 Ceramic as a form of social criticism

 Spoons and small objects

 Making your own stamps and surfaces