3-D Design in Ceramics - Glenda Guion, Instructor
About Instructor Glenda Guion
Ceramics Honors I Syllabus
Ceramics Honors II Syllabus
Clay Blog
Ceramics I is primarily an intensive studio activity, supplemented with slide lectures, demonstrations, critiques, and lectures on clays and glazes. Each assignment is designed to teach a specific building/modeling technique along with learning the principles and elements of art. Each project lends itself to the individual student mastering the clay materials and developing ideas into three-dimensional forms. All assignments begin with a discussion of the project, a written handout explaining the assignment and requirements, examples of related works and a construction demonstration.
MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS REQUIRED DURING THIS CLASS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
design tiles - glazed broken bowl - glazed slab/coil vase - sawdust fired or glazed box - glazed, painted or sawdust fired teapot - glazed, painted or sawdust fired cardboard form - stained or sawdust fired mask - beginning throwing on the potter's wheel - research work and slide presentation - sketchbook.
Advanced Ceramics is primarily an intensive studio activity, supplemented with slide lectures, demonstrations, critiques, and lectures on clays and glazes. Each assignment is designed to teach a specific building/modeling technique along with learning the principles and elements of art. Each project lends itself to the individual student mastering the clay materials and developing ideas into three-dimensional forms. All assignments begin with a discussion of the project, a written handout explaining the assignment and requirements, examples of related works and a construction demonstration.
NEWS
2008 Graduation Gift
The senior gift was a tile mural created by clay teacher Glenda Guion. The design for the gift incorporated the new FAC logo. Last spring each senior received a tile as a graduation gift from the school.
This summer visual arts students Kyle Sanders and Eli Robertson were accepted into the ArtLab summer program at the Kansas City Art Institute. Students are accepted into the four-week program based on portfolio reviews, academics, and recommendations. As high school students, Kyle and Eli each received three college credits for participating in the program.
Fine Arts Center clay students designed and created two large sculptures for the Butterfly Garden at the Roper Mountain Science Center. The students took a field trip to the Center in October to view the potential sculpture sites and to draw from the butterfly collection. Ginger Kopkal, Master Gardner and the developer of the garden, presented a program about the life cycle of a butterfly and their host plants. In December the students presented their designs to Bill Bradshaw, the director of Roper Mountain Science Center, and Ms. Kopkal. After refining the designs, the students worked together to build the sculptures out of red earthenware clay. The surface of the forms included leaf shapes, vines, and all of the stages of the butterfly. They are now installed as a permanent part of the beautiful garden.
Clay teacher Glenda Guion exhibited thirty-four ceramic wall relief sculptures at the Pickens County Museum during July and August. The exhibit was a twenty-year retrospective of works completed since her first one-person show there in 1988. Her artwork was also on exhibit in the Alumni Exhibition at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN during the month of September. Upcoming exhibits will include: Greenville Chamber of Commerce; Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, NC; Columbia College; and a one person show at Lander University in the spring of 2009.
