New Ways of Teaching: Understanding Clay Through Dough
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SPOKANE, WA – The shift to online classes has presented an extraordinary challenge for fine arts courses at 杏吧原创. The situation has forced art professors to think quickly and efficiently to deliver the same course experience to their students in quarantine. Associate Professor of Art Mathew Rude is implementing a new teaching style using culinary exercises for his now online ceramics courses.
As a professor of 12 years, Rude is always searching for new ways to engage students. With students moving scattered across the country and lacking access to ceramics materials, Rude had to quickly develop a creative way for students to continue sculpting without having to leave their house.
“As a ceramics class, we’ve totally lost our medium. We’ve lost all our course content basically we had to totally change the way we bake,” Associate Professor of Art, Mat Rude
The solution Rude came up with was a new assignment titled ‘Understanding Clay Through Dough.’ Rude created a conversion chart that likens the ingredients in baking to the materials used in clay sculpting. This method helps to demystify the nature of the ceramics materials playfully and cultivates an understanding of the firing process by using household ingredients.
Student Elise Nicols prepares her tartine sourdough for Professor