Umpqua Valley Arts Association
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Carol Ratliff
About the Artist
Carol Ratliff has over 20 years experience as a professional clay artist creating wheel thrown and hand built pottery, tiles, paintings, and sculptural works. She has a degree in Fine Art having majored in ceramics, and now runs her own studio and gallery, Clay Potential Pottery, located in Riddle.
Carol teaches art classes to grades K-12 and adults in South Douglas County. She developed and wrote grants for the ceramics program with the Riddle Education Center Charter School. Their high school students come to her studio two days a week to focus on basic skills in hand building and mastering the pottery wheels in a real working artist’s ceramic studio.
Grade Levels
K-8
Teaching Objectives
I strive to give students the basic skills necessary to successfully create various forms in clay or other mediums. Experiencing any art medium allows students a different way to see and practice skill building both mentally and physically while they learn to solve artistic problems and explore their creative ideas. An important goal is to build self esteem by creating art, gain an understanding of using clay or other materials, understanding the elements and principles of art and have fun doing it.
Residencies
Carol’s residencies can range from a simple class experiencing and learning clay building techniques, making sculptures in various mediums, or how to paint with acrylics to creating a program with the teachers integrating art projects into their curriculum.
Pinch pot
Coil and ball
Working with slabs
Making tiles, cups, vases, masks, bowls, fossils, story telling
Sculptural
Making animals & other 3 dimensional form
Using clay, cement, plaster, found objects
Using paper & textures
Pottery on pottery wheel – needs to be taught at artist studio in Riddle
Mosaics
Using paper simulation projects for lower grades
Clay tiles or other products for older grade levels
Murals
Can be done in acrylic paints interior/exterior
Ceramic tiles or mosaic installations – longer term residency may be required
Painting on all of above
Using underglazes, glazes, acrylic paints depending on grade level & projects
Acrylic Painting
Learning about design and use of color
Color mixing
Staff Development
Carol is available for staff development workshops to help teachers understand how art projects can be integrated into their teaching curriculum and work together to make the process of creating these projects comply with state standards of art.
Facility/Supplies
Class content and material costs depend on the student age levels, art medium used, and length of residency. Materials and firing costs for a typical clay class is approx $1-5 per student per day, depending on the project, kiln space required, and the age levels involved.
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