Ceramics/Sculpture Studio- This class at Sayre High School centers on the creation of 3D projects.The design of projects, selection of materials, and development of techniques demonstrated are the focus of the studio offering. A variety of 3D options are shown within the studio class that cover both ceramic and sculpture areas to give the students a well rounded 3D experience. All projects are both evaluated by the instuctor and self-evaluated by the students. This class continues the study of art history from the Design Studio offering. (Full Year)
Semester 1	To begin, the students are made familiar to the terms, tools, and materials used within the ceramics/sculpture studio. The students are guided during this semester to design, manipulate and complete a coil project based on accepted ceramic chacteristics with dimension requirements. They will also create a cardboard construction to reinforce planning and construction skills that will be needed throughout the year. Cardboard designs are to be original, colorful and based on a single theme or concept. At the end of the term, the students will create a simple subtractive plaster carving to be used later in their slab experience.(Report: The art of Greece) Lesson Plans:Coil Creativity Lesson Plans:Cardboard Crazy Lesson Plans:Subtractive Stamps
Semester 2	This course continues with the students returning to the ceramics area using the slab method. Students are reminded of their perspective skills and required to create sketches, then create projects that have corners to demonstrate the skills shown in this area. Emphasis is placed on creativity and clay embellishment, in the form of stamping, created by subtractive carving of plaster. In addition, the students will also complete a pewter gravity casting that is made from an original design modeled from plasticine clay. Projects are limited by size and (Report: Art of Rome) Lesson Plans:Slab Savvy Lesson Plans:Gravitate to Pewter
Semester 3	This part of the ceramics/sculpture course of study involves the concept of building over an armature and the skills needed to throw on a potters wheel. Armature constuction is shown as a hand building skill and is used by the students to create round, hollow shapes. These spheres are then made tactile by dividing them into sections and embellishing the surface, using subtractive carving,to create a symetrical, positive/negative design. The students are exposed to the potters wheel with two experiences. After the demonstration by the instructor, the students are allowed both a practice day and a grading day during the term on a rotating schedule (2 at a time) throughout the semester. Satisfactory projects created are allowed to be fired and completed by the students. (Report: Byzantine Art) Lesson Plans:Throwing the Wheel Lesson Plans:Spacial Spheres
Semester 4	The final semester in the Ceramics Studio first centers around the representation of the human form in a 3D medium. Students are instructed to design, select materials and complete an original concept using skills that they have developed during the year in this studio. In addition, as a final project, the students are required to create a combination project which must involve at least 2 of the skills shown during their studio experience. As in all studio art offerings, the students must present their 3 best works of the year, as a portfolio grade, for a final evaluation at the end of the term. Lesson Plans:Go Figure! Lesson Plans:Combo-Construction Lesson Plans:Tech-Portfolio
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