From Fits Function : Thematic Tea Sets

the students in Adv. Sculpture and Ceramics created tea sets based on their own chosen themes.  The challenge was to create a "set"of ceramic pieces vs. their usual "one of a kind " pieces.  The students' varied themes made for an interesting exhibit of work!

Wearable Art: Corrugated Cardboard Hat Designs

The students in Adv. Sculpture and Ceramics used their sculpting skills to create wearable art to communicate a message about themselves through the use of shape, form and texture in their fashionable designs!  Their hat designs all made bold statements as they wore them around the classroom on critique day.  The students' inspirations came from contemporary sculptors and hat designer pieces that they researched on their own prior to their sketching phase of the assignment.

High School Students Using Their Ceramic Skills to Teach Pre School Students

The Adv. Sculpture and Ceramic students demonstrated  their artistic skills to Mrs. Barbieri's and Mrs. Coreira's Child Development Class when they created ceramic heart designs with their pre-school students!

The pre school students made two trips to the high school Sculpture and Ceramics, room C1-12, to work on clay Valentine projects .  They learned about the properties of clay and the process of ceramics. It was a collaborative project that combined the teaching skills of highschool students with the learning process of  preschool students.  There is a beautiful article in the Cranston Herald http://www.cranstononline.com/stories/To-Daddy-with-love,79122 that describes the connection of the students' ceramic hearts to a very special community project developed by The Child Development Program Director, Charlene Barbieri.  The collaborative ceramic project, along with other collaborative projects, created by the pre school students and high school faculty members, were part of   a community service project. The project inluded a video conference with a soldier serving in Afghanistan. The soldier, a former Cranston West graduate, is father to a child in Child Development
Program at Cranston West.

Adv. Sculpture and Ceramics: "Line Through Time Sculptures" , Student's Choice of Media

Some of our finished sculptures, using our choice of media, to create our own ideas about "Line Through Time:

Line Through Time Sculptures in Progress

We began our projects with sketches regarding the theme "Line Through Time". From their we made faces out of one continuous piece of wire. We based our wire face sculpture off contour line drawings we completed in our sketchbook. After the wire face we began our final "Line Through Time" Sculptures. Students were given the opportunity to choose their own medium, including clay or wire. The students are now working hard to complete a free standing sculpture with the medium they choose to reflect, "Line Through Time".
                                                        Here our projects in progress!