Arts and Cultural Heritage Community Arts Learning Grant

Goal of the Project is to educate and expand knowledge and ability for 35 adults with disabilities to work with clay. Artist will understand the difference between functional art concepts vs. narrative expressive art. The art instructor will demonstrate the two concepts and provide examples of each specific concept art work. The artists will demonstrate understanding of each concept by producing an example of a functional art piece independently and then create a narrative expressive art piece while working in small groups. Artist will also be critiqued at various stages of work by peer and community. Artist will be requested to write up an Artist intent to their narrative art piece. Artist will create minimum of two projects and have individual measurable artistic goals that will be documented daily. (See attachment). Artist will demonstrate hand and wheel techniques; along with understanding use of mason stains, liquid clay techniques and glazes to enhance their work. Individual and Group critique will be done at the wet clay, leather hard, bisque, and finished piece. Independent projects will be sold at the 19th Annual Range of Temptation Craft fair and at satellite facility Soho. The group projects will be submitted to the Lyric Center of the Arts as collaborative pieces with artists’ intent to exhibit. Community will provide Artists with feedback at these events.