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    • Monday Videos
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    • Identity
    • Imagination
    • Craft & Design
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    • Sculpted Mug
    • Vase
    • Quick Build- Wheel Throwing
    • Texture Cube
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    • Beauty
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      • Syllabus and Procedures
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      • Monday Videos
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      • Quick Build: Eyes, Nose, Mouth,
    • Nature >
      • Quick Build: Flower Pot
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    • Welcome! >
      • Syllabus and Procedures
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      • Beginning Wheel Throwing
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      • The Perfect 10
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      • Midterm
      • Lidded Container
    • Classroom Management >
      • Social Contract
    • Art Concepts >
      • Monday Inspiration
      • Craftsmanship, Creativity, Effort
      • Art Lesson: Artistic Process
      • Art Lesson: Principles of Design
      • Art Lesson: Elements of Art
      • Art Lesson: Studio Habits of Mind
      • Art Lesson: Art Analysis
      • Art Lesson: Importance of Art
    • Quick Builds >
      • Quick Build: Photo Holder
      • Quick Build: Bowl Mold
      • Quick Build: Mug
      • Quick Build: Hand
      • Quick Build: Mini Sculptures
      • Quick Build: Stamps
      • 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
    • Themes >
      • Gratitude
      • Play
      • Prettiness & Hope
      • Struggle & Expression
      • Beauty
      • 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
  • NAHS
    • BLINK
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    • Visiting Artists
    • Art Showcase
    • Empty Bowls
    • Museum Visits
    • Call for Artists
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  • Sub Plans
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SLAB SCULPTURE

​Essential Questions:
​What different ways can you create texture on clay?
How do you create a organic slab sculpture?



VOCABULARY

Slab Building- a method of making pottery in which a think, flat plate, or slice of clay is cut into shapes which are joined to form an object. The joined edges are scored and slipped.

ARTIST EXAMPLES


ASSIGNMENT 

Create a sculpture or vessel using stiff slab construction. Must include at least 3 different textures, include sgraffito somewhere and include at least one sculptural attachment (handles, feet, plants, animal... etc. etc.)

Requirements:
Prep:
Sketches of design- 5 points
Cardboard template- 15 points


Forming:
No cracks on edges- 5 points
Includes at least 3 different textures- 5 points
Sgraffito- 5 points
Organic form (not a cube or rectangle) - 15 points

Glazing:
Must include at least 2 different glazes- 10 points

Reflection:
Self review- 5 points
Peer review- 5 points

Total points-70

GRADE SHEET

SKETCH TEMPLATE

TUTORIALS

Check out How to Make a Ceramic Slab Box by Jordan Smolko on Snapguide.
Slab building demo
Scraffito demo

REFLECTIONS

SELF REFLECTION
PEER REVIEW

UNIT PLAN
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