Warm up: (in sketchbook) Draw and label the following-

1. Warm up: (in sketchbook)Draw and label the following- Fettling Knife Clay Banding Wheel Clay Sponge Wooden Rib Wire cutter Wire Loop Tool Needle Tool

2. Clay Vocabulary • Wedge – knead clay (like dough) to align platelets and expel (AKA…get rid of) air bubbles. • Score – Scratching the surface of clay in order to attach 2 pieces together • Slip – Clay water • Greenware- Clay that is not fired* • Bisqueware- Clay that has been fired once • Glazeware- clay (bisqueware) that has been silica coated and fired a second time. • *leather hard –clay that is strong enough to hold shape but can still be smoothed • * bone dry – when clay is dry and no longer cold to the touch and can be fired • Kiln- oven used to bake clay at high temperatures. • Pinch Pot- the method of making a vessel by which the clay walls are thinned by pinching with the thumb and forefinger • Coil Pot- the method of creating a vessel by stacking and joining coils of clay one on top of the other

3. A Bit of Clay History • Originally clay vessels were rounded so as to avoid sharp edges, which could crack easily. • Clay was originally fired in pits, known as pit firing. • The potter’s wheel was invented in Mesopotamia between 6,000 and 4,000 bce. • Stone glazeware was created in Chine as early as 15th c. bce. • Artisans usually got clay from the earth that was available around them. Earliest known figures from 29,000-25,000 bce. Etruscan Red Figure Ware Vase, 330 BCE, south Italy.

4. The Funk Art Movement • An artistic movement that began in the Bay Area of California in the 1960’s. • Like Pop Art, Funk Artist’s often depicted objects from our consumer culture. • Unlike New York, which was the center of the art world and focused mainly on abstract painting at the time, Funk Art depicted real objects in ceramics. • Images were often funny to the point of self deprecating absurdity. Robert Arneson, Self Portrait.

5. Viola Frey, Firesuit, 1983, Man Observing, 1984, and Weeping Woman 1990-91. http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4954

6. Viola Frey, Man with Jar II, 1999. Standing Woman, 2003.

7. TRANSFORM 1 a: to change in composition or structure b: to change the outward form or appearance of c: to change in character or condition :convert 2 : to subject to mathematical transformation 3 : to cause (a cell) to undergo genetic transformation

8. Your mission: to transform a coil pot into…. Blue Cocoon on white semi-porcelain, JuditVarga, 2013. Twisted Yellow semi-porcelain Cocoon, JuditVarga, 2013.

9. Flora?

10. …fauna

11. …a sea creature?

12. …something with wings?

13. …what else can you imagine?

14. Planning Your Design • Define Transform. • What will your clay pot look like? Sketch a design for your pot. • What will you transform your clay pot into? Sketch a design for the final transformation. • How will you combine your coil pot with your transformation? • Create a design for your sculpture. • The sculpture may not be any smaller than the palm of your hand or larger than your hand. • You must have designs for your sculpture from at least 2 sides. • You must include at least 2 patterns and 3 different types of texture in your drawing.

16. Warm Up: Write down Coil Pot Building directions Make a clay slab with a rolling pin 2. Cut a slab based, ¼ inch thick 3. Roll coils by hand 4. Score and slip base And apply coil 5. Cut coil as illustrated 7. Merge coils, Using both hands 6. Pinch coil onto slab on the inside 8. Do the same with The outside

17. Completed Pot Example

18. Today • Warm Up • Open Up to your design for your coil transformation • Intro. To Coil Building • Create a coil pot using the correct methods: • Did you score and slip? • Is the inside as smooth as a cereal bowl?