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Collaboration in the Clay Room

An art teacher shares successful collaborative teaching experiences that took place in her school’s makerspaces and ceramics studio.

15 November 2024Elementary
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Advocacy: Collaboration, Pride, and Community

Two art teachers share how they collaborate with their local communities to create a sense of pride among their students.

14 November 2024Advocacy
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Aquatic Communities in Clay

Middle-school students create mini coral sculptures and large slip-cast sculptures depicting underwater environments.

15 October 2024Middle School
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ClipCard: Circle-Breathing Ceramics

Middle-school students create a simple object to help them focus and manage stress.

16 September 2024Middle School
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ClipCard: Low-Relief Self-Portraits

High-school students use air-dry modeling clay to create low-relief self-portraits.

16 September 2024Middle School
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Contemporary Art in Context: Jennifer Halli

Multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Halli shares abstract and site-specific works that explore themes of travel, growth, and loss.

15 August 2024Contemporary Art
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Form and Function

This project allows students to think like problem-solvers and innovators. Students use clay to bring their solutions to life.

15 May 2024Middle School
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Museum Musing: Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery

Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery is the first Native American community-curated exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. The exhibition gives voice to the Pueblo Pottery Collective, a group of sixty Native American curators who selected and wrote about works in clay from the School of Advanced Research’s (SAR) Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Vilcek Foundation in New York City.

15 May 2024History
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The Lighthouse as a Symbol

Middle-school students use the lighthouse as a metaphor for expressing who or what serves as a guiding light in their lives.

14 March 2024Middle School
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Contemporary Art in Context: Morel Doucet

Morel Doucet is a Miami-based, Haitian-American multidisciplinary artist and arts educator who explores climate change, gentrification, and displacement among communities of the African diaspora through sculpture, printmaking, and illustration. He views his art as a celebration of nature within the Afrofuturism movement. Afrofuturist art incorporates futuristic and science-fiction themes with elements of black and African culture.

1 March 2024Contemporary Art
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Tiny but Mighty

Young students learn about resilience after listening to a story about baby sea turtles and later make their own turtles out of clay.

15 November 2023Early Childhood
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Contemporary Art in Context: En Iwamura

Sculptor En Iwamura highlights the importance of ceramics in ancient Japanese culture while bringing new forms to life.

15 October 2023Contemporary Art