(13) Week of November 26th

You'll be working with clay for the remainder of the quarter.... Working on the potter's wheel is
especially messy so dress appropriately!
If you have long fingernails, this is a good time
​to cut them!

MONDAY:  

• Daily drawing
• Welcome guest artist, David Camden - wheel throwing demo. (hopefully, there will be time for one or more of you to try it)

WEDNESDAY: see HW

• SB CHECK 
• Review unit of study, vocabulary/processes, and related deadlines
• TBD....continue wheel-throwing OR hand building demonstration/review (while you are waiting to work on a wheel, you will be making hand-built forms)

FRIDAY:

• Figure Drawing Friday!

PROJECT DEADLINES: These are greenware deadlines:

• DUE Dec. 5th (6th at the latest) = Wheel-thrown chawan (@ least 1, stoneware, trimmed). Must have time to dry fully to be bisque-fired in time to be glazed on Dec. 12th, in order to be raku-fired on Dec. 17th. 
• DUE Dec. 19th = Hand-built chawan (@ least 1, earthenware). Will dry fully over beak, to be bisque-fired upon our return and glazed/fired thereafter.  ​
• NOTE: There WILL be more time to work after the break. You will be making other vessels/forms/containers, inspired by Mizusashi and Natsume (multiple, earthenware). 

HOMEWORK DEADLINES:​ 

• ONGOING (but really should be done by Monday) = Read/annotate handouts: 1) What You Need to Know About Clay/Ceramics, and 2) Japanese Aesthetics. Use this information to prepare for & generate ideas for the clay forms you will be making.
• WEDNESDAY = SB CHECK. NOTE: this check has been updated to also include the VMFA field trip assignment & AS #7
• DUE Dec. 12 = SB #3 (includes D.C. field trip assignment)

HAPPENINGS:​​​​​

• MON. - WED. = Bob Ross waffle sales during lunch (@ concessions)!!!
• WEDNESDAY = Art Club @ 11:45 am - 12:15 pm (work session for YAM flags unless you are helping to sell waffles)
• FRIDAY = Figure Drawing Friday!
• Dec. 7 = Washington, D.C. field trip
• Dec. 12 = CONTEST DEADLINES - Youth Art Month Flag and Scholastic
• Dec. 14 = Figure Drawing Friday!
• CHECK THE SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF EVENTS AND DETAILS​​​​