My Clay Handbuilding Notes

I taught ceramics classes in college during my grad tenure at Utah State University (Thx John Neely and Susan Harris!) While doing so, I came up with a number of handouts. These have spread around the internet, but the original batch went away long ago.

I still get nice notes from teachers who use them and if they are available for free. (If you want to hit the donation button on the way out, it’s always appreciated.)

Here are the originals. I am releasing these under a Creative Commons License.

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Here they are:

what is clay made up of?

What's up with glaze?

firing pottery

Pinch pottery lesson

soft slab lesson

hard slab lesson

Glaze lesson

coil head lesson

coil sculpture lesson

multimedia lesson

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Garden Basket

wire and wood basketScratched this up from some scrap in the back yard. We got tired of carrying stuff in our shirts.

I wanted to keep it narrow, but the handle seemed to be in the way, so I decided on this design.  Not the strongest, but we’ll see how it goes.

I’ve seen other wire and wood baskets and hear that it makes it easy to hose things off. I put mine up on little feet to keep things out of the dirt and help drying.  The can is holding a scissors, but I can see it good for other handy tools one might want have.

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Cthulhu fob

small stuffed doll. blueSomething to grace my USB stick so I am less apt to forget it.  Not just scary and ugly, but poorly crafted as well. (The later is not intentional, just due to weak skills.)

 

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Just a quick note to say I’m still around.  I have more than a few ideas I will need to be blogging about. Some art related, others more on the social media and collaboration side…stay tuned!

Also exploring a bit of Google+

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Health Org’s Communities and Perceptions

Contrary to what one might think, how much empathy an online community seems to have may not be driven by its community’s social bonding.  For healthcare organizations, it is communities that could effectively inform, and not socially bond, which were perceived to be empathetic. 1

Not as surprisingly, communities where one felt the other members were similar to themselves, homophily, were perceived to be more empathetic. 1

What might this mean for a community manager?

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