Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten students attend their last (for this session) clay class through the City of Santa Monica's CREST Enrichment program...after school classes held at a variety of Public Elementary Schools in Santa Monica. Next week, we paint! I have taught the students … [Read more...] about The (Clay)Work of Our Hands
Slab technique
enRICHment III
enRICHment III First through fifth graders have a blast pinching, coiling, flattening, carving and incising clay in Santa Monica’s CREST Enrichment program which provides a variety of after school classes in Santa Monica Public Schools. In this class, we invited parents and siblings to join … [Read more...] about enRICHment III
enRICHment II
enRICHment II Working in clay with Kindergartners…through Santa Monica’s CREST Enrichment program, at Santa Monica Public Schools…after school. Students "gently pounded" out slabs (flat but not too thin pieces, in this case disks) of clay, and used them as surfaces upon which to … [Read more...] about enRICHment II
enRICHment I
enRICHment I Working in clay with first to fifth graders...through Santa Monica's CREST Enrichment program, at Santa Monica Public Schools...after school. We started with pinch pots. and then moved on to coil pots, using small balls of clay to roll the coils, and spiral them into … [Read more...] about enRICHment I