Narrative Coil Vessels

Materials

  1. 1. Porcelain Clay
  2. 2. Black Slip
  3. 3. Sharp Etching tools

    4. Methods and Activities

    Day One

    I will give the students the assignment to find or write an abstract story that they could represent in pictures.

    Day Two

    The students will have to create 3 sketches of their story and ways that they can represent it.
    They should also be thinking about the type of vessel they will create.

    I will create a movie to play on the screen for the week of narrative vessels.

    Day Three

    I will give a brief demonstration of coil building and show them how to create different types of vessels.

    I will pass around a book about an artist who works solely in this method as well as have a movie playing with a slideshow of his work and others that are similar.

    They will have the remaining time to work.

    Day Four – Ten

    The students will have this time to create their vessel and let them dry.

    They will dry over the weekend for the next stage.

    Day Eleven

    The students will dip their bone-dry vessel into the black slip.

    It will dry over night.

    Day Twelve – Nineteen

    The students will have this time to carve their story into the black slip and get their vessel fired.

    When they are finished they will begin working on their wheel project.

    Day Twenty

    The vessel must be done for a peer critique where we will share the story of each vessel.

    Assessment

  4. Pre:
  5. 1. The students will write a story then represent it in pictures (in a pen drawing). The students will get a ball of clay to make coils and attach them with me while I give the demonstration.
  6. 2. The students will participate in a discussion about coil building as well as on narrative pottery.
  7. Formative:
  8. 1. The students will create a coil vessel using the techniques shown to them.
  9. 2. The students will translate their story into an (essentially) etching on their vessel.
  10. Post:
  11. 1. The students will turn in their completed vessel that is coil built and tells a story.
  12. 2. Their story must be easily recognizable in the peer critique.

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