Celebrating Excellence in Ceramics Home

Introduction
Links
Refrences
Credits

Student Welcome

Lessons

1 More than Preference

Surviving Time
Junk
The Value of Ceramics
Collections
Preferences
Judgments
Experts
Review / Quiz

2 Proportions and Profiles

Part One: Proportions and Forming Processes
Pinch and Slab Vessels
Coil Vessels
Thrown Vessels
Cast Vessels
Earthenware, Stoneware, and Porcelain
Firing
Part Two: Space and Profiles
Parts
Profiles
Review / Quiz

3 Expressive Patterns

Finishing
Patterns in the World
More Patterns
Pattern-Making Process
Julio Mora’s Step-By-Step Pattern-Making Process
Organizing Patterns
Happy Interdependence - Youthful Beginnings
The Scheiers’ Profiles and Glazes
The Scheiers’ Expressive Patterns
Patterns: Ancient and Contemporary
Review / Quiz

Tracks

Reflection
More than Preference Reflection
Reflecting on An Expressive Profile
Reflecting on Patterns

Inquiry
An Excellent Ceramic Vessel that I Like
Proportions and Profile of My Vessel
Analysis of an Expressive Pattern
Final Essay

Celebration
Criteria for My Celebration Vessel
My Decisions about Proportions and Profile
Building an Expressive Pattern
Final: My Celebration Vessel and Artist Statement

Mathematics
Reporting Preferences and Judgments
Estimating Proportions
Predictable Patterns