(14) Week of December 3rd

D.C. Field Trip is FRIDAY! Prepare for it!
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You are encouraged to work on the wheel outside of class; you are responsible for thorough clean-up.

MONDAY:  see HW

• DISCUSS: What about Hokusai's work can be applied to your chawan and other ceramic work? How can you take something "Japanese" and make it your own?
• QUICK: First-round D.C. field trip assignment review/questions
• Wheel-throwing/trimming with guest artist, David Camden - TRY TO MAKE AT LEAST TWO so you are sure to have at least one :)
  • If you are not on a wheel in the clay studio, you will be making hand-built chawan in the art room, using earthenware clay (not for raku)

WEDNESDAY: 

• QUICK: Last-chance D.C. field trip assignment review/questions
• Wheel-throwing/trimming with guest artist, David Camden - TRY TO MAKE AT LEAST TWO so you are sure to have at least one :)​
  • If you are not on a wheel in the clay studio, you will be making hand-built chawan in the art room, using earthenware clay (not for raku)

FRIDAY: D.C. Field Trip

PROJECT DEADLINES: These are greenware deadlines:

• DUE WEDNESDAY (you can work on Thursday but you are on your own) = 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 (the remainder fo Q2). You will be making other vessels/forms/containers, as inspired by both Mizusashi and Natsume (multiple, earthenware). 

​HOMEWORK DEADLINES:​ 

• ONGOING = Prepare for the D.C. Field trip by FRIDAY - set up your sketchbook, use museum links to make decisions, start research, etc.
• ONGOING = Review current unit of study, vocabulary/processes, and related deadlines
• DUE MONDAY = AS #7
• DUE Dec. 12 = SB #3 (includes D.C. field trip)

HAPPENINGS:​​​​​​

• FRIDAY = Washington, D.C. field trip
• Dec. 12 = NAHS
• Dec. 12 = CONTEST DEADLINES - Youth Art Month Flag and Scholastic
• Cancelled: Dec. 14 = Figure Drawing Friday!
• Dec. 14 = INTERIM (check Powerschool/follow up as needed)
• Dec. 19 = Art Club
• Jan. 19 - 21, 2019 = Art trip to Philadelphia!
• CHECK THE SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF EVENTS AND DETAILS​​​​