My experience in teaching with clay started in 1998.  I learned to use an electric kiln at Beuvoir summer camp at the National Cathedral.  At Horace Mann Elementary, I was fortuate to guide students in coil pots, slab construction, gargoyles, vessels with handles and tiles. The documentation of clay experience is light due to the time period and then once new building construction settled, technology and documentation resumed!

Legacy tiles 1998-2011 by 5th grade prior to new building.  

Legacy Tiles along with Medallion Sun as gift to new building.  Quote selected by Kate Spaller Class of 2010

The excitement to glaze is palpable!  Students do take a moment to envision prior to glazing coil pots.  They do have special parts like tails!

2nd grade expand on pinch and coil methods through attaching special pieces.  Glaze work is applied in layers to enhance creative surface design. 

4th graders create 3D portraits of historian along with Deguerrotype in connection with classroom unit in social studies.

4th grade create masterful minatures. Extra clever with laminating film as glass cake cover!

5th grade explore pose and pattern in a dyanamic presentation uniting 2D & 3D media

Students celebrate with installation of new kiln by creating clay stamps and kick up their heels on new turf outside new art room! 

Students love these time saving sample tiles that show matte and overglaze finish.

Handbuilt Pots for the Homeless fundraiser $5 each for S.O.M.E So Others May Eat

We were fortunate to share our kiln with the organizers of the 1,000,000,000 Bones project and also make clay bones to contribute to the displayed on National Mall to create genocide awareness. 

5th grade Texture tile

5th Texture Tile