New Orleans Center For Creative Arts: Visiting artist workshop, Site Specific Exploration. The objective for this lesson was for students to visualize and think abstractly as they draw their concepts for an installation using clay. They were challenged to consider how a space can be alternated to create an experience, new narrative, or shape a new reality.
Ceramics - Slab Construction, Title “No Right Angles”: This project ask students to create a form using slab construction. The objective is to create a form that does not have a right angle anywhere in the design. This creates opportunity for students to begin to understand timing and moisture content of the material and how it is necessary for different shapes. The secondary objective of this assignment was to explore surface decoration and tell a narrative about objects an activities that define who they are. The final work becomes a expressive investigation of form, surface and narrative.
“Linear Framework: Interlinking Lines” Create a 3D Form composed of 9 (Wood) framework units. Then using mix media materials (Thread) add volume and planes with interlinking lines.
Title: "Light, Shadow, And Space", This assignment was to create an architectural scale model of a space the student finds intriguing due to the space, architecture, lighting, etc. The student had to recreate a room in a smaller scale with the proper proportion and measurements and display an appropriate amount of a well researched artist's work- then fit to “scale” in a productive and successful way within the model. The objective of the assignment was for the student to develop awareness and ability to control space as a design element.
Ceramics - Coil Construction, Title “Historical Vessel a Hybrid Animal”: The objectives of this assignment were to research a historical ceramic vessel, merge it with an animal of the students choosing, and create the final design using coil construction.
Ceramics - Pinching technique, Title “Pinch Pot Redux: The objectives of this assignment were to explore the technique of pinching by creating 20 small pinch pots. Then students were asked to create a form by cutting and combining the pinch pots in a way that conveyed an emotion or feeling. This activity is a great way to introduce the material to students and starts scaffolding for future projects as pinching can be utilized in combination with all other techniques.
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“Nature, Form, Movement” is a Stop Motion Animation. The assignment's objective is to determine what nature means to the student and investigate how elements of nature can be used to create form and movement using clay as our medium. To consider the transition of one three-dimensional object to another and how its shape and outline affect that transition. Observe how sound and its emotive properties can affect the perception of a composition. The instructions of the assignment were to create a 30 second animation from still images made out of clay that tells a narrative with movement and form.
Nature, Form, Movement is a Stop Motion Animation.
Nature, Form, Movement is a Stop Motion Animation.
Nature, Form, Movement is a Stop Motion Animation.