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Fine Arts |
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Visual Arts - Ceramics/Pottery |
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Artistic Skills and Knowledge
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VA:Ceram.1 Ceramic Technique: Planning
The learner will be able to
uses preparatory sketches, plans, and produces hand-built and/or wheel-thrown ceramic works inspired by personal experience, social issues, observation of natural world, and research into selected cultures or ceramic artists.
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VA:Ceram.2 Ceramic Techniques: Construction
The learner will be able to
demonstrates proficiency in techniques, such as wedging, pinching, molding, scoring, and joining.
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VA:Ceram.3 Ceramic Technique: Clay Management
The learner will be able to
demonstrate techniques of pottery formation such as pinch, coil, slab, molding, combination, and wheel-throwing.
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VA:Ceram.4 Ceramic Techniques: Glazing
The learner will be able to
apply glazing techniques, such as brushing, dipping, pouring, wax resist, and stencil.
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VA:Ceram.5 Ceramic Techniques: Decorative
The learner will be able to
use a variety of decorative techniques, such as graffito, wax resist, slip trailing, stencil, and stamping.
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VA:Ceram.6 Glaze Chemistry
The learner will be able to
demonstrate a knowledge of the basic glaze chemistry (components of glaze compounds and their functions).
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VA:Ceram.7 Firing Process
The learner will be able to
demonstrate knowledge of firing chemistry processes including bisque, glaze, raku, wood, pit, gas, electricity, oxidation, and reduction.
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VA:Ceram.8 Safety and Maintenance
The learner will be able to
demonstrate proper care and safe use of ceramic tools, equipment, and materials.
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VA:Ceram.9 Ceramics and Chemistry
The learner will be able to
examine the many connections between ceramics and chemistry including glaze chemistry, oxidation and reduction atmospheres, and chemical changes in clay during firing.
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VA:Ceram.10 Appreciation of Diversity
The learner will be able to
synthesize knowledge, appreciation, and respect of diverse cultures and societies from a study of their cultural artifacts (ceramics).
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VA:Ceram.11 Ceramic Opportunities
The learner will be able to
identify and discuss career opportunities related to ceramics.
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VA:Ceram.12 Art Education and Life
The learner will be able to
identify and discuss the development and transfer of higher order thinking skills (e.g., include tolerance of ambiguity, nuanced judgment, complex thinking, finding structure within apparent disorder) used in the analysis, planning, and production of ceramics to practical and to workforce situations.
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Critical Analysis and Aesthetics
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VA:Ceram.13 Art Media
The learner will be able to discuss the characteristics and origins of clay as an art material, its possibilities, and its limitations.
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VA:Ceram.14 Ceramic Techniques, Function
The learner will be able to
identify and discuss how specific techniques, functions, and styles used in the creation of selected ceramic works affect the design.
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VA:Ceram.15 Composition
The learner will be able to
explain how elements of art and principles of design contribute to expressive content and/or formal unity in ceramic work from varied cultures and historical periods.
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VA:Ceram.16 Functions of Art
The learner will be able to
discuss the relationship of form (design, technique, and media) and function in selected ceramic works.
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VA:Ceram.17 Criticism
The learner will be able to
critique ceramic artworks using the processes of description, analysis, interpretation, and judgment based on evidence observed in artworks.
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VA:Ceram.18 Self-Evaluation
The learner will be able to
evaluate, based on predetermined criteria, own performance and progress on skills and written and visual products.
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VA:Ceram.19 Aesthetic Issues
The learner will be able to
discuss aesthetic issues such as: Why are hand-made objects sometimes more desirable than machine-made objects? Is form more important than function? Vice Versa? Equally Important? How do Western pottery aesthetic systems differ from those of other societies (Japanese, Selected Native American, Selected African)? Why has man historically decorated functional ceramics? Is pottery an art form, craft, or both? Why do humans have this innate need to add beauty and meaning to his/her world.
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Historical and Cultural Context
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VA:Ceram.20 Technology and Art
The learner will be able to
explain the influence of technology on ceramics/pottery production.
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VA:Ceram.21 Art of Western and Non-Western
The learner will be able to
identify, compare, and contrast major styles of ceramic works, their function in various world cultures, and their role as a visual record of history.
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VA:Ceram.22 Researching Art
The learner will be able to
research, study, and write about ceramics from diverse societies via Internet museums, exhibits, and critiques as well as traditional texts and periodicals.
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