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Re: Sgraffito: how to?

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TwoDucks_at_TeacherArtExchange
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 09:44:03 PDT

In a message dated 10/5/2004 12:48:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Marvin Bartel <marvinpb@goshen.edu> writes:

>I show no examples, but I have students practice on clay scrap before
>doing it on the projects.  For ideas, they make sketches and make
>lists about themselves. We study cultures as a follow up after they
>have fired some work.  Our work is to express our selves and our
>culture just as their work expresses themselves their culture.
>
This is such a great comment! It flips the schedule of teaching upside down in such a great way. Students look with interest on historic examples of media they have already spent time using. I know that this works.
kathy douglas 

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