Collaborative project to create large clay figures.  Each group was given one 25 pound bag of clay, some newspaper, a couple of clay tools and 1/2 an hour to create the figure.  They had to work together to figure out how they were going to build the figure and who was making which part.  At the end, each group had to tell a little story about their figure.  Below are the results.

Students paint out designs on concrete board for their personal mosaics

Students learn how to use tile nippers and glue down cut tile pieces to the painted concrete board

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School & Community Programs at PF/PCA is dedicated to bringing high quality arts services to tens of thousands of participants at schools, nonprofit service agencies, and community organizations working with both children and adults in Allegheny, Beaver, Greene, and Washington counties through our partnership with the Arts in Education division of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.. Our programs are designed to place trained, knowledgeable, and practicing artists into school and community settings where they can share the benefits of the creative process.

We start everyday working in our journals.  The journals were created by cutting out different shapes of decorative paper and gluing them to the cover of a sketch book

Here are some of the students painting and working on designs for future projects in their journals

Idea generating session for collaborative mosaic design.  Students then painted in the outlined final design on concrete board

Pinch-Pot face clay rattles were created by students