Today you will need… 1 piece of 9x12 white paper 2 fine line markers, any colors you like 1 thick marker, any color you like Your pencil Be prepared to be inspired!

Inspiration Use the markers to write the word inspiration onto the 9x12 white paper. Think of the last time that you were inspired. What were you inspired to do? Who inspired you? Write your name and team name on your paper.

What inspires Mrs. Henry? “My family, my pets and famous artists inspire me to make art.” Carly and Jess Bonnie and Clyde Gustav Klimt – Artist Inspired by Egyptian motifs.

Face Jugs – “Ugly Jugs” Date to the 1850’s Created by slaves and freedmen Edgefield District of South Carolina Jim McDowell carries on the tradition

FACE JUGS ~ a southern tradition ~ created by Sonia McDowell

Face jugs attributed to a slave potter in Edgefield, South Carolina, about 1850.

Face Vessels, Stoneware, United States, 19th and 20th century, Makers unknown. From the Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne Collection of American Folk Art

Dig the well before you are thirsty. Ancient Chinese Proverb Copy the Ancient Chinese Proverb above onto your “face jug” sketch paper.

Before beginning the clay form… What will your jug look like? –Handle (s) on jug –Eyes –Ears –Nose –Mouth –Horns –“Accessories” –Inspirational message?

What basic form will produce a jug?

A Cylinder

What basic shape can be made into a cylinder?

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Steps to make a clay cylinder… 1.Set up with the required materials. 2.Get rolling pin and dowels to share. 3.Mix up slip to share with partner(s). 4.Get a pattern and clay slab. 5.Roll out the slab; dowels on both sides. 6.Cut out pattern. 7.Score and Slip edges together. 8.Make an imprint of cylinder on remaining slab. 9.Attach cylinder; score and slip. 10.Cut away excess. 11.Store clay cylinder properly under damp towel and plastic.

Materials to share are ‘d.

Continue to “dig the well”… Add or circle the following drawing on your “face jug” sketch paper: Make your final decision… –Draw the basic shape of the face jug that you want to make; for ideas, look at the example jugs that are on the worksheets and also those made by Jim McDowell and other contemporary potters. –Add a handle or handles to your face jug; make a decision as to where the handle(s) will be located on the jug.

Please make your desk look like the desk in the picture below.

Sketch the shape of the nose that you will add to your face jug, from a front view and a side view.

African -American Face Jugs Face Jugs – “ugly jugs” Date to the 1850’s Made by slaves and freedmen - originating in the Edgefield District of South Carolina Jim McDowell – “the Black Potter”, a contemporary face jug potter who is from western PA Original functions- grave markers, ward off evil, contain moonshine and tonics (scare off children), water vessel…

WEBSITES –Websites of slave face pots – article your looking for is “Making faces: Southern Face Vessels from 1840 – 1990http:// –other websites of more recent artists influenced or carrying on the tradition -not activewww.janesaddictions.com/jadmain.htm – check folk art areawww.janesaddictions.com -not activewww.blackpotter.20f.com - kid oriented sitehttp:// -not activewww.annsjugs.com article “Southern Tradition of Face Jugs” Antiques Roadshow in Miami: Face Jug 2002http:// =web&ots=Dt13ZjkEXs&sig=L42kkKVJybEKgPgh-o7Gz1KKXTg#PPA66,M1 - Information about Edgefield Slave Face Jugs from Oxford History of Art: African American Art pg.66http://books.google.com/books?id=2598QQgoRP8C&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=face+vessels&source =web&ots=Dt13ZjkEXs&sig=L42kkKVJybEKgPgh-o7Gz1KKXTg#PPA66,M1 On- line Lesson Plan - More Information at SPECIAL THANK YOU to Pat Poitinger, Linda Johnson, and Robin Rodgers for their assistance and teachings on ceramic face jugs