Reliquaries in Clay: High School Pottery Lesson:
Project Description:
You will be designing a vessel to hold an object that has personal significance. The vessel will be required to reflect characteristics of the object it is holding in its shape, color, texture, and imagery.
Inquiry Questions:
On your digital sketchbook you must have :
Grading Criteria:
___/30 Planning & Ideation:
Your digital project page must include:
What object did you choose to create a vessel for? Why is this object important or meaningful to you? Where did this object sit before you built a reliquary for it?
What makes your reliquary a suitable home for your meaningful object? How do your artistic choices of form, surface design, texture, and color communicate information about the object your reliquary holds?
What is your favorite aspect of your reliquary, conceptually or physically? That is, what about it's concept or design appeals to you most?
Project Description:
You will be designing a vessel to hold an object that has personal significance. The vessel will be required to reflect characteristics of the object it is holding in its shape, color, texture, and imagery.
Inquiry Questions:
- What gives an object personal significance?
- How do the memories and emotions we attach to an object transform it into something more special or important?
- How can we create a vessel suitable to hold an object so special?
- How does the form of a vessel affect the function of that vessel?
- How can the appearance and structure of a vessel communicate information about what it holds?
- The vessel must be hand-built using the techniques of slab, pinch, or coil building.
- The vessel must reflect characteristics of the object it holds shown through your artistic choices of shape, color, texture, and imagery.
- The vessel can be open or closed and your object can be accessible or inaccessible.
- You must document your brainstorming, sketches, work in progress, and final product in your digital portfolio under a project page labeled "Reliquaries in Clay."
On your digital sketchbook you must have :
- A list of 4 to 5 meaningful objects
- 3 photos of word webs relating to 3 meaningful objects from your list.
- Pictures of 5 sketches of possible vessels for your reliquary (3 of the 5 must be of entirely different vessels. 2 of the sketches can be elaborations of the same vessel.
- Please answer these questions as you design your reliquary:
- 1. How did your idea for your vessel change as you sketched your ideas?
- 2. What parts of your design do you think will be difficult to fabricate with clay? What parts will be easy?
- 3. How does the form of your vessel reflect its function? How does its surface design, color, shape, surface texture and other design characteristics tell us something about the object it holds?
- Pictures of your design sketches in clay.
- Pictures of your work in progress.
- Pictures of your final piece.
Grading Criteria:
___/30 Planning & Ideation:
- The student has interpreted the assignment thoughtfully and with originality. The student brought another level of interpretation into the project, instead of simply fulfilling the basic criteria.
- The student thoughtfully participated in brainstorming and ideation activities that helped to develop their designs and final product.
- Student has shown skillful use of artistic media, technology, and/or techniques. Student must appropriately employ the techniques learned in pottery including slab, coil, and pinch methods of hand building, surface design and texture, and glazing.
- The student's final artwork should show a relation between form and function. The vessel created should tell the viewer something about the object it holds.
Your digital project page must include:
- A list of 4 to 5 meaningful objects
- 3 photos of word webs relating to 3 meaningful objects from your list.
- Pictures of 5 sketches of possible vessels for your reliquary (3 of the 5 must be of entirely different vessels. 2 of the sketches can be elaborations of the same vessel.
- Please answer these questions as you design your reliquary:
- 1. How did your idea for your vessel change as you sketched your ideas?
- 2. What parts of your design do you think will be difficult to fabricate with clay? What parts will be easy?
- 3. How does the form of your vessel reflect its function? How does its surface design, color, shape, surface texture and other design characteristics tell us something about the object it holds?
- Pictures of your design sketches in clay.
- Pictures of your work in progress.
- Pictures of your final piece.
- Artist Statement answering the questions below.
- Persistence and effective use of class time is always demonstrated.
- Materials are always properly used and cared for.
- Work area is always cleaned up at the end of each studio session.
- Come prepared with all needed supplies. (i.e. Sketchbook, laptop)
- Participate in class discussions in a thoughtful way.
What object did you choose to create a vessel for? Why is this object important or meaningful to you? Where did this object sit before you built a reliquary for it?
What makes your reliquary a suitable home for your meaningful object? How do your artistic choices of form, surface design, texture, and color communicate information about the object your reliquary holds?
What is your favorite aspect of your reliquary, conceptually or physically? That is, what about it's concept or design appeals to you most?
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