Learning about appropriations though Inspiration:
Objective: Choose an art historical image to appropriate. What is appropriation? It is taking an image that already exists and changing it for your own purposes, while still being able to understand its original source. For example…the work of Kehinde Wiley. During this project students will learn about an art historical image and how to use Photoshop to appropriate their selected image.

 



Beginning Ceramics:

Learning about pinch pots and hand-building:
Objective: Create 5 pinch pots, choose your best 3 to be graded. You will be discovering hand building in ceramics through the creation of pinch pots. Pinch pots are one of the simplest forms of hand build vessels. By creating several types of pinch pots you will have the opportunity to become familiar with clay as a medium.
Learning about form and function through slab-rolled cylinders:
Objective: Create 4 slab rolled cylinders; choose your best 2 to be graded. You will learn how to use the slab roller to flatten the clay for your ceramic pieces. Two cylinders will represent form and two will represent function (you will turn in one form and one function). All of the cylinders will be between 4-6 inches tall with a base diameter of 3-4 inches.
Learning about coil building by creating a coil pot:
Objective: Create one large coil pot. You must have a sketch of the shape of your vessel before you begin. Additionally you will practice your shape on a pinch pot. This piece will demonstrate your knowledge of additive, low relief, high relief and carving through. Before carving your piece should be leather hard and you must have a test piece and sketch. Make sure your pot has a meaning or theme include this in your sketch.

Advanced Ceramics:

Hand-building with meaning, creating a personal totem pole:
Objective: Create a totem pole that conveys a story (most significant item on top). A sketch my be approved before beginning. This sculpture will be viewed in the round (from all sides). The ceramic pieces will fit around an armature and pieces will sit on top of one another. Minimum four pieces at roughly 1 foot tall.
Learning about creating functional ceramic ware:
Objective:  You need to create dishes for a fictional breakfast. You dish set needs to consist of 1 main dish, 2 side dishes and utensils.

Drawing 1 & 2:

Learning about Charley Harper through spray painting stencils:
Objective: Design and draw an animal that is meaningful to you using minimal realism. Finalize sketch and create a stencil based off of your sketch. Design a background for your animal.  Learn how to properly spray paint using stencils you must use at least three colors.
Objective: For your next artwork you will be learning about juxtaposition and meaning making through collage. You will create a collage, which you will then draw. Your collage must have some type of meaning behind it, whether it’s personal to you, or a fictional story you create based on an image you find and like there must be an explained meaning in your final artist statement.