Not just clay.For teachers As an art teacher I have always greatly enjoyed working with clay with my students and have been fortunate to have a kiln in my room for many years. Nowadays, thanks to the proliferation of air-drying clay and new malleable substances like polymer clay Polymer clay is a sculptable material based on the polymer polyvinyl chloride. It usually contains no clay minerals, and is only called "clay" because it can be used for similar purposes as natural clay. , precious metal clay Metal clay, is a clay-like medium used to make jewelry, beads and small sculpture. It consists of very small particles of precious metals (such as silver, gold or platinum) mixed with an organic binder and water. , and Model Magic, this approach to modeling form is available to everyone. www.goshen.edu/art/ed/d-egg.html Read this intriguing essay, "Dominic's Egg" by Lisa Blackburn, which describes the use of clay in learning visual thinking, imagination, and creativity. www.goshen.edul%7Emarvinpb/lessons/box.html Follow up by reading and reflecting on Marvin Barrel's extensive and insightful lesson, Personal Clay Box. Bartel's site also includes the lessons Surreal Animals, Clay Sculpture: Gargoyles gargoyles medieval European church waterspouts; made in form of grotesque creatures. [Architecture: NCE, 1046] See : Ugliness , and Abstract Expression in Clay. www.amaco.com/html/amaco_lessons.html AMACO offers seventeen lessons online suitable for different kinds of modeling materials. grafik.sdsu.edu/ceramicsweb/main.html The Ceramics Web features useful links to glaze databases, an interactive glaze analysis program, health and safety information, free ceramic software, class materials and technical handouts, an interesting variety of articles about ceramics, and reviews of commercial videos about pottery. w3.byuh.edullibrarylcurriculum/Clay/Clay.htm The Education Curriculum Collection at BYU BYU Brigham Young University BYU Bayou BYU Bob's Your Uncle BYU Bayreuth, Germany - Bindlacher Berg (Airport Code) BYU Beyond Your Understanding Hawaii has compiled an annotated list of suggested books and readings about clay as well as useful links. www.skutt.com/lesson plans/teacher_lessons.html Companies that sell clay and glazes often provide clay lesson plans online. Skutt Ceramic Products, in cooperation with American Art American art, the art of the North American colonies and of the United States. There are separate articles on American architecture, North American Native art, pre-Columbian art and architecture, Mexican art and architecture, Spanish colonial art and architecture, Clay Co., Inc., offers a number of clay lessons for all levels on this site. www.skutt.com/lesson_plans/duncan.html Similarly, Skutt collaborates with Duncan Ceramic Products to provide lessons for eight projects online. www.claystation.com/guides/teachers.html This guide for ceramic art This article is about artwork made out of clay. For ceramic materials and uses in general, see Ceramic. Ceramics and ceramic art in the art world means artwork made out of clay bodies and fired into the hardened ceramic form. educators provides links to a number of clay lesson plans. collaboratory.nunet.net/ties/china/chinaclay.html The China Clay china clay, one of the purest of the clays, composed chiefly of the mineral kaolinite usually formed when granite is changed by hydrothermal metamorphism. Usage of the terms china clay and kaolin project features ten sequential lessons on clay for kindergarten students based on Chinese history, culture, and geography. www.ezl.com/~limegr/lessons.html Carolyn Hasenfratz offers three online lessons for making jewelry from polymer clay--Introduction and Making Textured Beads, High Contrast Colors, and Analogous Colors. www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/identity/talking_rocks/broelesson.html Talking Rocks is a well-thought-out lesson plan by Judy Broekemeier that investigates rock art and symbols, and includes the making of clay "talking rocks." For Students Directions: Visit the following websites and follow the directions or answer the questions on a separate piece of paper. www.artsmia.org/ceramics/jomon_storagejar/made.html How old is the oldest pottery that has been found? Where is it from? How was it used? What did it look like? Explore the links at the bottom of the page to discover the answers. www.miaclab.org/exhibits/maria/index.html Pueblo Indian Pueblo Indian Any of the historic descendants of the prehistoric Anasazi peoples who have for centuries lived in settled pueblos in what is now northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico, U.S. The contemporary pueblos are divided into eastern and western. pottery from the Southwest also has prehistoric traditions. Click on "Inspiration" at this site. What pottery traditions did Maria Martinez
www.calstatela.edu/faculty/psemrau/lesson.htm Both Jomon and Prehistoric Pueblo pottery Pueblo pottery One of the most highly developed of the Native American arts. Pueblo pots, made only by women of the tribe, are constructed of long “sausages” of clay that are coiled upward and then smoothed out. was made by the coil method. Follow the directions and step-by-step photographs at this site to create a clay coil pot. www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/linda-effigy.htm Study the images, then follow the directions to make a lidded, ceramic effigy EFFIGY, crim. law. The figure or representation of a person. 2. To make the effigy of a person with an intent to make him the object of ridicule, is a libel. (q.v.) Hawk. b. 1, c. 7 3, s. 2 14 East, 227; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 866. 3. vessel that represents an animal. A smaller version could be made with polymer clay. www.ezl.com/~limegr/polymer3.html Follow the directions and diagrams to mix two analogous colors of polymer clay to create beads with different patterns. |
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