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Just finished working on some pages for a kids' art #zine we're making for upcoming community #Kwanzaa celebrations. Each child will be given a gift bag with zines, stickers, clay and other little art supplies. Last year, I just attended the celebration and this year I'm happy to be involved. I've never celebrated Kwanzaa in my home, but its a really good way to feel connected and grounded in positive ethics.
#art #AddToBlackSky #BlackFedi #DIY #howto #pottery #clay #kidsart #zines
A green page with white handwritten text, decorated with red, black and green triangles. It contains steps 1-4 of making a clay bowl. There are four closeup photos of my hands performing each step. The text reads: take a small amount of clay and roll it between your palms to make a ball. Lightly pound the ball with your fist to flatten it into a "cookie."
A zine page. The background is green and the text is white and handwritten. The title reads "How to make a bowl from clay" laid over a photo closeup of my hands holding an unfired red clay bowl. Underneath it says Kuumba in Kwanzaa colors: red, green, black (and yellow.) Underneath the text reads: "Kwanzaa celebrates creativity, community and working with our hands, just like shaping a bowl from clay. When we make something ourselves, we honor the spirit of Kuumba--using our imagination to bring something good into the world. As you for your bowl think of it as a small piece of tradition: building, creating and sharing with others.
#art #diy #pottery #BlackFedi #zines #zine #clay #howto #kwanzaa #addtoblacksky #kidsart

Last year, I sent some #clay that I collected to the University of West Georgia Archaeology Dept and they just sent me the results of their experiment. They tested how the addition of sponge spicules (or fired sea sponge) affects the strength of the fired clay. This method of tempering clay isn't common but evidence of its use can be found in pottery shards throughout the world, including here in SW #Florida. Anyway, how cool to be able to assist in scientific #research.
About two dozen dark gray bars of clay lined up in rows, sitting on a wooden table in what seems to be an institutional setting (school lab).
A small, orange-brown, fired rectangle of clay being held by a three-point bend test machine. It's metal with two control panels attached to wires.
Two graduated cylinders. One filled with dry, pulverized gray clay and the other filled with black pulverized burned sea sponge (sponge spicules).
A poster summarizing students' research results titled "Evaluating the Performance Characteristics of Spiculate-Tempered Pottery." There are four blue squares, one in each corner, filled with text with the headings: Introduction, Methods, Materials, Discussion. The rest of the poster is filled photos of test materials, microscopic images, graphs and tables. If you're really interested in the entire contents of this image, message me and I will send you a pdf with readable text.
#research #florida #clay

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