Thanks to John Dononvan, the Assistant Professor, Foundations with MTSU's Art Department, for coming up with this great lesson for the 4th Grade Art Club. John will be a guest artist here at Lockeland for September and October.
The children will first be looking at: Edward Hicks " Peaceable Kingdom"
( you can see the image here)
http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/Hicks_Peaceable_Kingdom.htm
The students will study "Peaceable Kingdom" and choose an animal to first draw
and then create out of raku clay. The culuminating activity will be to fire them
in a trash can with saw dust - here at Lockeland or in the yard of a nearby home.
Students will also learn about other pit fire artist and we will be looking at these
examples, along with others in class.
http://magdaleneodundo.com/
The students could get an idea of how the clay looks after fired. The semi-reflective sheen to her work is similar to what will result from the terra sigilatta, if we choose to use it.
Another clay artist working with pit-fired forms I have always enjoyed is Daisy Youngblood. She worked in New York City for a long time, and would dumpster-dive behind fast food restaurants for her pit kiln fuel. She swore that all the chemicals in fast food scraps gave her work lots of interesting colors & surfaces. She recently moved to Costa Rica. Here is her page from a gallerythat represents her in New York:
https://mail.nashville.gov/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://mckeegallery.com/artists/daisy-youngblood/
About the firding process
http://www.robertcomptonpottery.com/Method%20of-Pit-Firing-Pottery.htm
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