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      • Monday Inspiration
      • Craftsmanship, Creativity, Effort
      • Art Lesson: EOA & POD
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      • Quick Build: Mini Sculptures
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    • Surface Design >
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    • Coil >
      • Public art
    • Assessment >
      • Create a Glaze
    • Slab >
      • 3 MUGS
      • Slab Sculpture
      • Wall Piece
      • Darted Tumbler
      • Flower Pot
    • Sculpting >
      • Teapot
      • Mobile/Windchime
      • Surreal
      • Figurine
    • Themes >
      • Self Portrait
      • Home
      • Play
      • Prettiness & Hope
      • Struggle & Expression
      • Beauty
      • Food
      • Anthropomorphic
      • Extreme Emotion
      • Impressionism
      • Inspiration
      • Investigation
      • Holiday Sale
      • Slab Architecture
      • Expressionism
      • Mashup
      • Craftivisim
    • AP-3D >
      • Summer Prep
      • Choice
      • Breadth >
        • Review of the EOA & POD
        • Abstraction
        • Negative Space
        • Found Object
        • Container
        • Cardboard
        • Clay Composite
        • Wearable
      • Concentration >
        • Your voice
        • Project Proposal
        • Friday Critiques
        • Writing Your Statement
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WALL PIECE

Essential Questions:
Why is texture important in ceramics?
How can we create meaning using textures?
What are the different ways we can create texture with clay?


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STUDENT EXAMPLES

ARTIST EXAMPLES


PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Create a ceramic artwork that can be hung on a wall and has at least four different textures.

Requirements:

Prep:
Sketch- 10 points

Forming:
Can be hung on the wall - 10 points
Has 4+ textures- 10 points
More than 6" in one direction- 10 points
No obvious cracks- 5 points

Glazing:
Glaze is the proper thickness- 10 points

Reflection:
Self reflection- 5 points
Peer analysis- 5 points

Total points: 65


GRADE SHEET

SKETCH TEMPLATE

TUTORIALS

Video: How to make a slab, and examples of various textures. How to hollow out a sculpture.

TAKE A MOMENT TO THINK

Peer Critique
How's it going?

REFLECTION

Self Reflection
Peer reflection

Unit Plan