This document provides instructions and challenges for creating pinch pots and sculptural ceramic pieces. It outlines two challenges: 1) creating a piece by joining two pinch pots together or adding details like designs, feet, or handles; and 2) creating a piece that represents a personal motto or core values through symbols or shapes. The document emphasizes skills like sketching ideas, adding unique details, and ensuring smooth edges through tools or sponges.

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What can you do with 2
pinch pots?
Challenge #1

2. You can join 2 pieces
together to make it whole.

3. Add or subtract?
-cut out designs

4. Functional or sculptural?

5. Adding detail
-using a tool you can create a
drawing on the surface.

6. High Relief

7. Adding a way to balance

8. A hollow form NEEDS a Tiny Air Hole!

10. Sketch your ideas first.
-Must draw at least 2 ideas. (Worth 10 points)
-Idea must be approved before starting.

13. Make it Unique! No copying.

14. Add an interesting “foot”

15. How can you make it stand?

16. Add a handle

17. Be Inventive!

18. CRAFTSMANSHIP!!!
SMOOTH EDGES
USINGTOOLSORA
DAMPSPONGE!!

19. Add
character
and
humor.

20. Challenge #2:
1. Subject Matter -What should your piece be
about?
Your piece must be based on a personal “moto” either that
you come up with or that you find that best represents
you.

21. Other Motos!
What symbolizes your moto?
-Animals, Abstract shapes, people, objects, nature?
-Literal or Metaphorical?
The future is my unknown paradise“Sharing is Caring”

22. 3 Questions to help create your own
personal motto:
1. What are your core values?
2. What values would you most want to pass on to your
family?
3. What values will most improve the person you are
today?

23. Just remember….
1. Slip & Score & Smooth
2. Air hole (if needed)
3. Wrap up unless finished
4. Clean ALL tools & table
'Television is chewing gum for the eyes.' - Frank Lloyd Wright

24. 2013 Student Examples
Sophia Espinosa ‘16 Julie Pena ‘16

25. Tiffany Lu ‘16

26. Quianna Taylor ‘16