Social Commentary Narrative Vases

Inspired by contemporary artist Grayson Perry, Ceramic 2 students at NWHS created narrative ceramic vases in response to a social issue they felt passionate about.

This project culminated in students sharing their vase forms on the social media site Instagram using the hashtag #nwsocialcommentary. In addition, students were instructed to write their artist statement describing their social issue in a sentence supported by key phrases they want to call out with additional hashtags. This supports my action research project that explored the integration and implementation of technology within the high school ceramic arts classroom.

Students engaged with the task of disseminating their vases by documenting images of their finished pieces and creating a supporting digital artist statement to be published on the social media site Instagram, where clickable hashtag links can be utilized to support these statements.

I encouraged students to include relevant links to start dialogues, acting as a digital gateway to further explore issues the students investigated.

Students were required to use the hashtag #nwsocialcommentary in their statements so that when clicked, each student’s piece displays under the header #nwsocialcommentary.

Students engaged with the task of disseminating their vases by documenting images of their finished pieces and creating a supporting digital artist statement to be published on the social media site Instagram, where clickable hashtag links can be utilized to support these statements.

I encouraged students to include relevant links to start dialogues, acting as a digital gateway to further explore issues the students investigated.

Students were required to use the hashtag #nwsocialcommentary in their statements so that when clicked, each student’s piece displays under the header #nwsocialcommentary.

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Social Commentary Narrative Ceramics spread

Spread of Ceramic 2 artist inspiration and student processes of developing their own narrative ceramic vases that explored social issues through their own visual narrative commentaries.