1. Ceramic Building Processes Wedging: The way you prepare clay to get rid of air bubbles. Slip and Score: How you join two separate pieces of clay together. Pinch: Hand building technique that requires pinching the clay into a form. Coil: Hand building technique that requires rolling the clay into coils. Slab: Hand building technique that requires flattening the clay out into a large slab Slip: Watered down clay that can be used to join two sections of clay together, to paint designs on greenware (when stain is added to it), or can be poured into molds. Green ware: A piece of ceramics that hasn’t been fired. Bisque ware: A piece of ceramics that has been through the first firing. Slump Mold: Process where you take a slab of clay and drape it over an object to create a vessel.

2. Finishing Processes Glaze: A type of paint for ceramics that you fire to add lasting color to a ceramic work. Stain: A powder that can be added to slip, glaze, or rubbed into clay to add lasting color to a ceramic work. Burnish: Process where you polish the surface of a green piece of ceramics to make it smooth. Reduction fire: Process where you use wood or sawdust to fire the ceramics piece at a low smolder. Cone 5 glazes: Glaze that fires at 2100 degrees. Glazes change colors and run during the firing process. Cone 05 glazes: Glaze that fires at 1800 degrees. Glazes do not change color or run.

3. Miscellaneous Information Silocosis: Also known as potters lung. A type of cancer that you can get from breathing to much fine clay dust. Form: Refers to the composition of a 3D work of art. Utilitarian : Type of ceramics that is meant to be used (plates, bowls, etc). Sculptural: Type of ceramics that is meant to be looked at (sculptures).