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    • Identity
    • Imagination
    • Dino
    • Craft & Design
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      • Monday Inspiration
      • Craftsmanship, Creativity, Effort
      • Art Lesson: Artistic Process
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      • Quick Build: Hand
      • Quick Build: Mini Sculptures
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      • Quick Build: Sgraffito Magnets
      • Quick Build: Wall Vase
    • Surface Design >
      • Create a Glaze
      • Surface Design
    • Coil >
      • Public art
    • Assessment >
      • FINAL
    • Slab >
      • 3 MUGS
      • Slab Sculpture
      • Wall Piece
      • Darted Tumbler
    • Sculpting >
      • Teapot
      • Mobile/Windchime
      • Surreal
      • Figurine
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      • Home
      • Gratitude
      • Play
      • Prettiness & Hope
      • Struggle & Expression
      • Beauty
      • Food
      • Anthropomorphic
      • Extreme Emotion
      • Impressionism
      • Inspiration
      • Investigation
      • Holiday Sale
      • Slab Architecture
      • Expressionism
      • Mashup
      • Craftivisim
    • AP-3D >
      • Breadth >
        • Review of the EOA & POD
        • Styrogami
        • Negative Space
        • Found Object
        • Container
        • Cardboard
        • Clay Composite
        • Wearable
      • Concentration >
        • Your voice
        • Project Proposal
        • Friday Critiques
        • Writing Your Statement
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NEGATIVE SPACE

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
​ How can negative space be used to create expressive and evocative qualities?
​​What does it mean to be creative?
​What are some tips to being creative?

WHY?
Technical Skills:
Building with clay multiples
Review of ceramic skills
​
Art Concept:
Negative space

Life:
Problem solving


Picture

THE ARTISTIC CHALLENGE​

Create a artwork by building with clay cylinders. Then add and remove clay in a way that emphasizes negative space.

CRITERIA:

There should not be a "top" or "bottom" 
You must use at the minimum 3 different sections of cylinders
There must be areas where clay is cut out
It is your choice whether you would like to add clay to areas
Rubric

HELPFUL INFORMATION

TIPS AND TRICKS


EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS

MEETS EXPECTATIONS

BELOW EXPECTATIONS


THE ARTISTIC DISCUSSION

What does it mean to be creative?
​What are some tips to being creative?
Discussion Template
Fact Sheet

Unit Plan
Teacher reflection