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!

WELCOME!

                                                 Welcome to Adv. Sculpture and Ceramics!  

I am looking forward to a great year with all of you!  It is important to remember that we are all responsible for creating a respectful learning environment.  Our goals as learners include: collaboration, creation, critical thinking and communication.  Each of you should have also created your own personal goals for Adv. Sculpture and Ceramics in accordance with the 21st Century Skills that we discussed in class.  We will be checking in periodically with your goal cards to see where your strengths and weaknesses are in class and to also plan new ways of meeting your personal goals while in Adv. Sculpture and Ceramics this year.

In Adv. Sculpture and Ceramics we will be creating various types of sculptures ( relief and free standing), using various materials like paper, cardboard, recycled books, wire and plaster!  We will continue to learn about the elements and principles of design in each of our projects to strengthen the compositions within your sculptures.  This year at the advanced level, you will be making personal choices in your selection of media with each given assignment.  You will also be more challenged to think independently and problem solve more on your own as you explore your own choices of media. Each project will include sketches and visual reference research.  Sketchbook assignments are 15% of your class grade and must be completed!  Homework is 20% of your grade and it must also be completed on time.

I am already impressed with the work that you all have begun to create this year!  Your two dimensional abstract charcoal drawings are fresh, loose and free - I want you all to challenge yourselves to carry out this freedom of expression in your upcoming projects as well! Keep up the great work!