Ceramics

Stabilizing Shifting Time”. Jane is a junior here at Long Beach State and is currently majoring in ceramics. When I first walked in i was surprised, I really wasn’t expecting to see what I saw. I felt like I walked into a coloring book or a cartoon world. Everything was so colorful and felt like they were just outlines of the real world. There was a lot of colorful strings holding things up like ceramics, baby’s clothing and other things. After settling in I noticed that there was a lot of…

collections.They comprised ceramics, glass, and metalwork, and also some outstanding jewelry, embroidery, papier-mâché, and wood. Moore's comprehensive collection was formed as an adjunct to his profession, and its main purpose was to provide him and his designers with artistic and technical ideas.A lot of Moore’s metal work were inspired Naturalism and Eclecticism. Moore Thence he introduced new motifs, forms, and techniques to American…

Much of the workflow for ceramics production remains the same over the many years this art form has been practiced. When centuries ago, a potter starting the process workflow of producing a ceramic mug (or more likely a jug), he would go to a river bed and collect the clay. Now, Angel Pottery’s supplier is currently a clay supplier in Amherst, Massachusetts. In this supplier’s factory, they use mixing augurs to produce the raw material clay. From factory to home factory, the clay bags are…

could I ask for? My boyfriend took ceramics for three years, he was incredible at it. I loved watching him do something he loved. That whole year he tried to convince me to take the class the following year. I would just laugh because even though I loved art, I wasn’t any good at it. The end of the year was approaching quickly. He was about to graduate and I was about to start picking classes for the following year. On the course selection sheet the word “ceramics” staired me right in the face.…

This ceramic piece is Shino-glazed stoneware with slips done in 1996. The jars are down in desaturated colors. Two of the jars are browns with a hint of red mixed in with the other jar being a crème color. There are imprints of a stick on each jar which were filled…

could’ve sparked a conversation about the Minotaur in Crete, King Minos, and Minoan culture. Or it could’ve started a conversation about Athena and their love for Athens. The compositions chosen for these pieces were in no way arbitrary. The role of the ceramic pieces, such as this particular stamnos, was crucial to the tradition of Greek…

it. Albert Einstein once said “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of minds to think.” My goal is to be able to communicate with people and to understand and help them. Next, my favorite activities are art and ceramics. I have taken a ceramics class every summer since I was eight years old. I hope to do these in high school. Last year at New Brighton Middle School, I took art and worked with clay as…

Culture plays a big impact on our society and our personal life’s. My adventure, culture/celebrations, artifacts, decorum, education, food, and heritage impact my personal life. The influence in my social life, that not only it affects me, but people around me depending on my social attitude. Culture benefits me because the impact that it has shown me for my historical roots of my culture. My culture shaped me as the person I am now because of the different diversities of it and its regional…

Wendat/Ouendat, also various names Wyandot or Wyandotte people of Ontario. They lived along rivers and lakes where they would be most likely find wildlife, fresh water and good soil for crops. Lake Simcoe, Georgian Bay, Lake Ontario and rivers such as Black Creek. The Wendat lived along Black Creek, located in North York. Black Creek flows south to the The Humber River in Toronto ON, Canada. The area is just North of Toronto in the Municipality of York Region. The area development is a…

Children’s Book Reflection Origo Deorum is a retelling Hesiod’s Theogony, a large-scale synthesis of Greek religious traditions and fables concerning the gods and the universe. The children’s book recounts the birth of the gods and the gradual emergence of Zeus’ dominance and his formation of cosmic order. The story is told in three stages, the castration of Oursanos by Cronos, the deception of Cronos by Gaia and Zeus, and the victory of the new gods over the Titans. The myth does not follow…