Erin Hayes on wed 26 apr 00
Hi All!
I teach at a community college in Washington state, and the geology
instructor and I are set to offer a learning community between Physical
Geology with a Lab and Beginning Handbuilding. For those who aren't
familiar with the term, a learning community is a linked pair of classes in
which both instructors are present for both classes, and in which ideas are
connected between the two disciplines to help break down the sometimes
artificial barriers placed between disciplines. We are now to the stage
where we are looking at specific concepts and working on ideas for clay
projects.
Dave (the geologist) understandably looks at clay in terms of the students
making models of thrust faults, and I look at thrust faults in terms of
their visual design. I think we can make it work, and it will be a good
learning experience for everyone. I have started with Mimi Obstler's "Out of
the Earth, into the Fire," and Yvonne Hutchison Cuff's "Ceramic Technology
for Potters and Sculptors" as a place for Dave and I to look at connections
and ideas.
I'm looking for a few ideas that you all might see as important connections
we could make from a beginning Handbuilding techniques class (pinch, coil,
slab, additive and subtractive sculpting) to a beginning level Physical
Geology class, where the main topics re identification and origins of rocks
and minerals, basic mountain building forces like plate tectonics and folds
and faults, and mass movement processes like glaciation. We've already
talked about connecting glaze components and the rocks and minerals, as well
as a sculpting project in which the students would use the basic crystalline
shape of a particular mineral as part of their sculptures. The tectonics
and glaciation part are a little more obscure, but we're working on it.
Any ideas you all might have would be very welcome. We have plenty of lead
time - we are set to offer the class in Winter quarter 2001. We're looking
forward to making some connections between Lab Science and Studio Art -
which stereotype suggests are light years apart.
Erin.
Erin Hayes
Art Department, Yakima Valley Community College
Yakima, Washington USA
College e-mail: ehayes@yvcc.cc.wa.us
Personal e-mail: ehayes@televar.com
elizabeth priddy on sat 29 apr 00
you might have them try to mimic the other
materials with the clay with inclusions,
sand, texture, colorants.
They could make clay "geode" SP? type work
with neriage technique, for instance...or slate.
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Clay: 12,000 yrs and still fresh!
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:27:28 Erin Hayes wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hi All!
>
>I teach at a community college in Washington state, and the geology
>instructor and I are set to offer a learning community between Physical
>Geology with a Lab and Beginning Handbuilding. For those who aren't
>familiar with the term, a learning community is a linked pair of classes in
>which both instructors are present for both classes, and in which ideas are
>connected between the two disciplines to help break down the sometimes
>artificial barriers placed between disciplines. We are now to the stage
>where we are looking at specific concepts and working on ideas for clay
>projects.
>
>Dave (the geologist) understandably looks at clay in terms of the students
>making models of thrust faults, and I look at thrust faults in terms of
>their visual design. I think we can make it work, and it will be a good
>learning experience for everyone. I have started with Mimi Obstler's "Out of
>the Earth, into the Fire," and Yvonne Hutchison Cuff's "Ceramic Technology
>for Potters and Sculptors" as a place for Dave and I to look at connections
>and ideas.
>
>I'm looking for a few ideas that you all might see as important connections
>we could make from a beginning Handbuilding techniques class (pinch, coil,
>slab, additive and subtractive sculpting) to a beginning level Physical
>Geology class, where the main topics re identification and origins of rocks
>and minerals, basic mountain building forces like plate tectonics and folds
>and faults, and mass movement processes like glaciation. We've already
>talked about connecting glaze components and the rocks and minerals, as well
>as a sculpting project in which the students would use the basic crystalline
>shape of a particular mineral as part of their sculptures. The tectonics
>and glaciation part are a little more obscure, but we're working on it.
>
>Any ideas you all might have would be very welcome. We have plenty of lead
>time - we are set to offer the class in Winter quarter 2001. We're looking
>forward to making some connections between Lab Science and Studio Art -
>which stereotype suggests are light years apart.
>
>Erin.
>
>Erin Hayes
>Art Department, Yakima Valley Community College
>Yakima, Washington USA
>College e-mail: ehayes@yvcc.cc.wa.us
>Personal e-mail: ehayes@televar.com
>
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