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The Artist-in-school Residency
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Artist and participating students
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Lesson 0 Dipping Objects
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Lesson 1 Impression of My Belongings
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Lesson 2 Molding My Book
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Lesson 3 Painting My Book
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Lesson 4 Graffiti on My Book
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Annie’s words
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Publication Information
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To have simple communication without technology, installation artist Mr Lo Chi Kit guided our students to be connected through different colors of ribbon. Ribbons
Making Art, Making Connection
above the atrium were not only an installation in school, but a visible connection to the current issues in Hong Kong. All the connections
Ceramic artist Miss Annie Wan leaded our students
With the popularity of communi-
finally merged into incredible
back to the basic to have touches from their hands to
cation devices, we can easily reach
forms of Arts.
explore different possibility of clay. Clays were con-
people through iPhone, Facebook
nected to their daily stuffs and with their own touches
and What’s app, but can we make
adding on each objects, clays became the container of
it through a simple ribbon? We all
their touching story.
love to touch our advance multitouch screen, but do you still re-
With the fully support from A-school, the artist in resi-
member the touch of clay ?
dence program finally came true. Hope you all can enjoys their artworks and have a connection with Arts ! Akai Law Visual Arts Panel 18.06.2012
Artist-in-School Residency 2011-2012
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Artist And Participating Students ARTIST
Annie Wan Lai Kuen
TEACHER
John Li
STUDENTS
Yau King Hang Lo Rachel Manuel Ho Queenie Chan Tsz Kwan Poon Tiffany Yip Chung Hin Law Hong Shing Choi Chun Wai Kong Tsz Lam Lau Valerie Lin Wendy Zhou Lo Kwok Ip Sung Yu Kwong Leung Hiu Sum Mok Wong Yin
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Lesson 0: Dipping Objects Throughout the artist-in-school period, clay slip was prepared. Students come to dip their objects, also paint books and papers. Artist, Annie Wan, also mould the books by slip-casting method that students can come to talk & understand the idea and process.
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Lesson 1: Impression of My Belongings STUDENT PREPARATION: Every student has to bring some small favourite objects (e.g. keys, candies, wallets, handkerchiefs, etc) MATERIALS: Clay, Talc powder, Vaseline, A4 paper, colour stains TOOLS & EQUIPMENT: Rolling pins, wood strips for slap-making, wire, cutting and sculpting tools, sculpting tools,
heaters or hair driers, smaller containers for slip, newspaper DOING STEP BY STEP: 1/ Make some small clay tiles. 2/ Impressed images from the small personal belongings by clay tails. 3/ Hand-make a three dimensional clay object by directly impressing clay on their personal belongings. 4/ Color the objects with color clay
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STUDENT PREPARATION: Every student has to bring a book of any kind. MATERIALS: Clay (Dave Porcelain), colour stains, Sodium Silicate, CMC gum TOOLS & EQUIPMENT: Rolling pins, wood strips for slap-making, wire, cutting and sculpting tools, sculpting tools, heaters or hair driers, smaller containers for slip, newspaper DOING STEP BY STEP: 1/ Use blender to mix the clay and colour stains. 2/ Apply the colour clay slip to every page of a book 3/ Fire it to high temperature
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Lesson 3: Molding My Book
STUDENT PREPARATION: Every group has to bring one thin book or a pile of newspaper. MATERIALS: Cheap clay for making fences for moulding, plaster, Vaseline, Clay (white stoneware), underglazes
TOOLS & EQUIPMENT: Cutting and sculpting tools, newspaper, buckets DOING STEP BY STEP: 1/ Make the fences for plaster moulding 2/ Make a two-piece plaster press-mould of one book
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Clay is an intimate and friendly medium. However, making ceramics involves complicated techniques and processes, such as throwing, glazing and different
Artist words
types of firings. Thus I can see the difficulties of teaching ceramics to a big group of students in the teaching mode of secondary school art lessons with limited space, time and facilities. Correspondingly, I take this
At some other time, they learned
chance to share some of my techniques and ideas, which
how to mould books and trans-
include both traditional and new techniques of making
formed them into ceramic art
ceramic books. Through projects, we explore the na-
objects, which was indeed not
ture of clay and experimented on its physicality.
an easy technique for secondary
I hope it helps to extend students’ notions on possi-
students. But through repeti-
bilities of making art by using clay. At the beginning,
tive manufacturing process of
I found the students have some constraints.
Per-
moulding, also failure and retry,
haps they were under pressure of examination, or per-
students were eventually able to
haps they were used to follow step-by-step guideline.
manipulate this technique and
But gradually after they have warmed up, I was happy
most importantly, they enjoyed
In this residency programme, I am interested most in the idea of
to see them become more initiative in expressing their
the process of making. Though
“introducing ceramics art in contemporary approach to Second-
own ideas.
the time for this programme
ary School students”. This objective implies two points: first,
is short, I hope it has brought
ceramics has gone through the process of development from tradi-
some stimulation and inspiration
tional to innovative, which we call contemporary ceramics; second,
to students in making ceramics
contemporary ceramics has hardly been taught in secondary school.
art, through which, they express
Actually, I am not familiar with secondary school art education, but
their personal ideas, intentions or
as interviewer at the Academy of Visual Arts every year for JUPAS,
meanings.
I can only find very few three dimensional works in applicants’ portfolios. Ceramic works are even less, and furthermore most of them are
Annie Wan
quite naïve works.
Jun, 2012
Acknowledgment Forum Guest Speaker: Luke Ching
Teacher Team Akai Law, Davis Chan, Sam Tang, John Li
Coordinator Vangi Fong
Artist & Students Portfolio of Artist-in-School Residency 2011-2012 Editior: Vangi Fong, Akai Law Design: Jim Wong Photography: Work and Workshop Published by: Hong Kong Baptist University Affiliated School Wong Kam Fai Secondary and Primary School First publish in Jun 2012 in 500 copies All rights reservedŠ by Hong Kong Baptist University Affiliated School Wong Kam Fai Secondary and Primary School
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