Dakabin State High School, Queensland, Australia
This is the former art room of Justin Kramer, Dakabin State High School. Justin now teaches at North Lakes State College. While at Dakabin, he taught grades 6 and up. Work on these pages was done by
students in Justin's former school. 2004 was very successful in that they won two regional art
competitions with a huge prize pool that has supported an on
going artist-in-residence program. Students also walked away
with first prize awards. They were also successful in a $15000
grant for an artist in residence program to build a sculpture
with electronics in it out front of the school. Students are
also having their first public exhibition in a regional
gallery this year. An artist contacted Justin in 2006 and has
worked with students for an exhibition that goes for the whole
month of June.
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Organic Form in Clay - Shells
Submitted by: Justin Kramer
From Judy: I have been watching the list for posts where I can connect
to Dale
Chilhuly's glass installations. The majority of high school teacher's
do not have access to glass -- but they do have clay. Justin Kramer's
Shells Lesson fit the bill. Justin has also seen Chilhuly's
installations and has always been overwhelmed by them. See also Gregg
Luginbuhl (fish and Creation Series).
Resource: Thais
- Shell Images
To come: PDF document -- Year 10 test paper to go with this unit of
work for the appraising art component.
Justin's students looked at several ceramic sculptors who are inspired
by nature. He selected shells as the source of inspiration for his
students since they are readily available to him. Students made sketches
and planned their construction process.
Using pinch and draped slab techniques - the shells took shape. Surface
decoration/textures was important. The pieces
are larger than life - in some cases 40 to 50 cm in length.
Adapt Lesson Plan by Maria Lengauer: Organic
Form in Clay |
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They experimented with glazing techniques and sandblasting to mimic the shells
colour. Justin was
quite surprised how well they handled the concepts of layering glaze
colours to achieve an effect. Justin has entered the installation into a collaborative art
competition for secondary students.
Resources for 2-D images throughout history:
Select any of these wonderful examples of Shells
in Art. Page by Juan Carlos M. Coll and Alfonso Pina. Reverso
Web Translation gives you a very accurate translation from Spanish to
English.
Justin submitted lessons and other work he's done at Dakabin. You can see it by clicking on the arrow below:
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