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Materials: Pottery Clay Kiln Goals: • To understand the pinch pot making process better to best instruct students • To experiment with chipping away with the wire clay cutter for texture • To experiment with creating texture using a pen to create lines and smoothing them out to soften them with my hands In Progress Images: 1: The clay came pre-wedged so the first step was to roll it into a ball, poke a hole in the inside with my thumb and pinch and shape until walls are forme

I’ve been collecting keys since 2021. Friends and family started giving me more and the collection grew. When I lived in Richmond I would get them from ScrapRVA, a creative reuse center that sells donated collected materials from art supplies to bottle caps for cheap. Twelve keys are from a garage sale I accidentally came upon on my study abroad in Florence Italy. After I moved for grad school I heard from a coworker the Upcycle Creative Reuse Center exists and has keys. From

Materials: Roving In Many Colors (fine twisted bundles of fiber) Felting Needles, (36gauge, 38gauge, 40gauge, 42gauge) Single Needle Holder 3 Needle Holder Foam Pad Super Sculpey Oven-bake Clay Dotting Tool for Clay Acrylic Paint Paint Brushes Optional: Spray Paint (alternative: Posca or Tfive markers or me using spray paint for kids outside class) Clear Nail Polish (alternative: acrylic gloss medium) iPhone Polycam app The pink under the horns is meant to be gills incorporat

Materials: Tomato Seeds (found sprouting in a tomato while making a sandwich) Purple Flowers Acrylic paint Plastic Bag Paper Towels Masking Tape Watercolor paper Desk Lamp Clear Cutting Board Rough Linen Fabric Scrap iPhone Final Cut Pro Procreate Dreams FreeSound (https://freesound.org/) Tested but didn't use Stop Motion app, (hit a paywall, I recommend Flip A Clip for students) I taught filmmaking for 4 summers at Light House Studio either as the lead teacher or a TA which