Ceramics and Pottery

Ceramics & Pottery

The Art teachers, Miss Alison Vella and Mr Gabriel Galea and the Ceramics artist, George Muscat is making the students aware of how to make a clay model and the students are very interested and enthusiastic to work with clay.These students learnt how to use a cutter to make forms of butterflies, hearts, birds, etc. to have amazing sculptures in the garden. These students are aware of the two different types of clay; hence the soft clay and the rough clay. They use the soft clay which looks like play dough to make the different forms. To open the clay they put a ball of clay between two strips of wood and roll it to make it thinner.

The students also make use of the kiln to cook the clay.After they finish their work they put it together like a jigsaw puzzle and than they are going to put it in the garden as a sculpture.The pottery class is creating a non 3D texture of natural things. The artist, Lino Borg cuts some thin wood with a saw. Then the students grab a piece of wood and two plastic sticks and they roll them with a rolling pin.To cut the clay, the artist uses a fish-line attached to two iron ends. Basically, the students wash their hands and make a ball of clay. Then they put the clay ball on the throwing wheel (which is a spinning circle that turns clay into vase shapes) and ultimately they form shapes with their hands.

The pottery class is making wind chimes for the garden by using the clay and the kiln. By using cutters and cardboard, the students are creating different shapes for the wind chimes. The artist helps the students to even make geometrical forms. The students are also making flowers out of clay and they intend to attach these flowers to the garden’s mural. It is fascinating that from a few individual pieces they are making a whole picture.

Students that take part in it :

SEPHORA BORG

RITIENNE CALEJJA

NAOMI DEBARTTISTA

SHARON GRACE MICALLEF

MARIE CLAIRE MERCIECA 

LAURA BONELLO

CHARISSE REFALO

LETIZIA CUSCHIERI

AMBER FARRUGIA

JASMINE ZAHRA

MIRABELLE FALZON

GAIL DIACONO

DANIA EL SHKMAK

SIANA ELLUL

CAROLINE PORTELLI

NICOLE BEZZINA

LUANA CASSAR

CHRISTINE FALZON

CHERIE CAMILLERI

MATTHEA PSAILA

MIRAYAH MIFSUD 

OXANA CAMILLERI

KIRA FARRUGIA

KYLIE GRECH

RAISA VELLA

LARISA DANILIN

MARILYN SCERRI

KIMBERLY FENECH

CHEYENNE SHEYCELL

MARIAH SCORTINO

RAISA CIANTAR

LIANA MIFSUD

SHIANNE FABRI

ROXANNE PSAILA

MARIA ATTARD