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Pottery – Contemporary Clay

Success Zone / Bhuchar -
2026 Fall

Students step into the role of contemporary ceramic artists as they explore how modern sculptors use clay to experiment with form, color, scale, pattern, and storytelling. Inspired by artists such as Magdalene Odundo, Grayson Perry, Viola Frey, and Jun Kaneko, students create original vessels, figures, and sculptural forms while hand-building and surface-design skills.

Week Lesson Title Lesson Description & Objectives
1 Contemporary Clay Challenge Students complete short buildings and join challenges and learn how moisture, thickness, balance, and strong connections affect the durability of a sculpture.
2 Odundo-Inspired Vessel Students combine pinch and coil techniques to construct a small vessel inspired by Magdalene Odundo and learn how silhouette, proportion, and negative space shape a three-dimensional form.
3 Perry-Inspired Story Plaque Students create a layered clay plaque inspired by Grayson Perry and learn how carved symbols, low-relief images, borders, and repeated patterns communicate a story.
4 Painting Form and Story Students paint their vessels and story plaques and learn how limited color palettes, contrast, line, and repeated motifs can strengthen the meaning and visual unity of an artwork.
5 Frey-Inspired Character Bust Students sculpt a stable character bust inspired by Viola Fray and learn how expression, clothing, texture, scale, and exaggerated proportions can communicate personality.
6 Woodman-Inspired Sculptural Vase Students create a compact vase-inspired sculpture using slabs, curved pieces, and low-profile attachments and learn how artists can transform a familiar functional form into abstract art.
7 Painting Expression and Abstraction Students paint their character busts and sculptural vases and learn how color, pattern, emphasis, and unexpected combinations can change the mood and meaning of a sculpture
8 Kaneko-Inspired Dango Sculpture Students build an oval sculpture inspired by Jun Kaneko and learn how balance, smooth surfaces, repetition, and bold pattern planning can make a simple form visually powerful.
9 Contemporary Clay Mash-up Students create an original sculpture that combines at least two artists, techniques, or design ideas and learn how artists transform inspiration into a new concept.
10 Painting Personal Style and Exhibition Students paint their Dango sculptures and original mash-up projects, arrange their finished work, and create short artist statements. They learn how color, pattern, technique, and presentation help artists develop and communicate a personal style.
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Map/Locations
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Bhuchar Elementary
5503 Thompson Ferry Rd
Missouri City, TX 77459
SZ-SBE-8

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Bhuchar Elementary
Thursdays, Oct 1 - Dec 17
3:45 - 4:45 PM

  No Class Oct 15 & Nov 26

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Grades   2nd - 5th
Price: $ 300 00