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Benchmark Series:Ceramic Slab

• Includes Descriptive Criteria and Sequential Skill Development

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Art Education

Fulton County Schools

2009

Emerging

Proficient

AdvancedBenchmarks:

Ceramic Slab

Descriptive Criteria

• Verbal descriptors of visual benchmarks

• Describe traits of emerging, proficient and advanced artwork

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Emerging Traits

• Lids do not fit or were not attempted

• Unintentional cracks and warping

• Limited understanding of structural stability

• Simple or little surface treatment

• Surfaces are partially unintentional, neither smooth nor intentionally textured

• Uneven glaze application or glaze does not enhance form and content of work

• Unintentional rough edges

• Clunky, chunky thick slabs that are uneven

• Form and Surface do enhance each other

• Form does not engage 3-D space and/or surface design does not engage picture plane space

• Flat; not sculptural; Viewpoint not considered from all sides in construction

• Some effort put into design but is unsuccessful or limited

• Trite subject matter and/or composition

• Simplified form/ design/composition

• No personal voice

• Teacher driven projects with little student input

• Images are not emotive or carefully observed

Artistic VisionCompositional SkillTechnical Skill


Proficient Traits

• Increased and intentional surface decoration and treatment

• Construction shows more than just the additive process

• Surfaces, edges, rims look intentional and are smooth or rough as decided by the artist

• Applies basic techniques in a sophisticated manner

• Emergence of mixed media

• Overall technical skills are strong; all parts of the pot are well-crafted

• Increased awareness of surface and how it relates to form

• Thoughtful use of positive and negative space in form and surface decoration

• Integrates design elements and principals to create unified, exciting work (repetition, variation within unity, emphasis, movement, rhythm)

• Emerging personal voice is evident

• Student is beginning to take risks and thinking more divergently

• Less teacher- focused assignments

• Shows personal thought and concept development



Advanced Traits

• Shows range and control over medium and technique

• Firing and glazing are purposeful integrated with form

• Alternative firing techniques: Raku, sagar, smoke, terra sigillata enhance the form

• If used, mixed media is integral to the design and totally unified with the clay

• Variety in mark making and surface texture

• All surfaces and forms look 100% intentional

• Masterful use of positive and negative space in both form and surface decoration

• Development of series

• Extreme in complexity...or simplicity

• Stability/balance/weight shift in slab creates movement, rhythm, or elegant balance

• Seamless incorporation of design elements and principles in all parts of work

• Intent is evident; student is “thinking outside the slab”

• Development of a personal voice

• Shows risk taking and confidence in all phases of creation

• Use of media expresses intended message or concept

• Understands connections between historical/traditional ceramics and their own work and that of contemporary artworks



Sequential Skill Development

A listing of skills, related to this benchmark, that are developed at each level:

– Middle School Art Courses

– High School Introduction to Art

– Ceramics 1 and 2

– Advanced Placement 3D

VIP: Art History, Criticism, Aesthetics Are Woven Into All Units Return to thumbnails


Middle School and Introduction to Art Ceramic Skills

Note: Art History, Criticism, Aesthetics Are Woven Into All Units

• Elements and Principles bridge from 2D to 3D

• Roll a uniform slab; control over measurements and form

• Proper adhesion: score, slip, score and bond

• Construction issues; leather hard, handling and drying slabs at different stages, controlling warping and the difference between soft and hard slab techniques

• Simple mark-making techniques/ implied texture and basic surface decoration

• Basic knowledge of the history and vocabulary of clay

• Introduction to throwing and rolling slabs, using templates and types of molds


Ceramics 1 Slab Skills

• Firing and Glazing; experiment with multiple techniques and purposeful applications

• Development of technical skill with templates, planning, measurements and joining seams

• Elements and principles interact from multiple viewpoints; thinking “in the round”

• Relates the construction and firing processes to the communication of an idea

• Develops personal expression of ideas

• Understanding the range of media

• Extend use of tools and media; varying stages of dryness, piercing, texture, greater concern for craftsmanship

• Understanding form versus function

Ceramics II, III, IV and Advanced Placement 3DMastery and extension of all previous topics and add:


• Firing and glazing selected to enhance form and message in work

• Mastery of technical skills; push media and technique

• Seamless use of design elements and principles in the artwork

• Complex compositional development

• Complex mixed media compositions

• Development of a personal voice in a piece or in a body of work

• Mastery of construction, surface design, glaze application and/or finishing treatment

• Clear ability to create the intended idea or concept

• Alternative firing techniques used to create selected surfaces and content

• Student understands connection between their work and historical and contemporary ceramic work

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