Senior Mathew Wolfe started doing ceramics in the fall following in his older sister’s footsteps in his junior year. “Ceramics is kind of a nice change of pace for the day, I like doing something with my hands. It’s different from the other classes where you got to do a bunch of work on paper” Wolfe said. ” I took ceramics because I asked my sister to help me pick classes for a semester and she recommended I take Ceramics”

This student starts the process of an recreating a Greek soldier from history.

In this advanced class, students spend a long time carving and making small details into their projects to create fantastic artwork. Students usually spend several days working on these intricate details to make their projects stand out for the art show and for the State Fair.

During Ceramics 2, students start creating different sculptures that will eventually go to the California State Fair for prizes. Students spend a couple of weeks on a singular project ranging from different animals to people in nature. There are only a few students who attend advanced classes in ceramics.

Since they can choose whatever they feel like making, they can make their projects more abstract or complicated to their skill level. This student is finishing their project and chose a more complicated piece of a woman in the middle of a tree and bushes.

During his second period, Ethan P., senior takes his time making a structure for his sculpture. He carefully spends a long time on his base to make sure it is stable and makes the small wood-like details on his base to make his sculpture stand out.

In his second period, Austin Binon, senior, works on his first project of the semester making a dog. The rest of the Ceramics class makes beautiful pieces through the semester which eventually going into the school’s art show and the California State Fair.

Ceramics students don’t always do sculptures on people, they also make a lot of sculptures on many animals as well. This student carefully makes the scales of the fish by creating small dents into the clay to make their sculpture more abstract.