Ms Hope Chella’s Ceramic Class and Ms Mary Cousins Math Class
and I joined forces at Rogers High School recently (January-May 2015) to create
this Tessellations Mural. 62 students
participated as we studied the work of Escher, the theory behind tessellations
and the clay process of sgraffitto.
After first creating a tessellating puzzle piece, repeating
patterns were generated on paper and transferred onto buff clay which had first
been prepared with three coats of rich black underglaze.
Removing the black areas with a sgraffitto carving tool
revealed the patterned designs.
Student pride was evident as each came by to identify his or
her tile, while we installed this 5’ x 5’ mural in the Math Wing at Rogers. Math and Art combined to make a community
mural!
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