Cuneiform Pottery Lesson

Teacher: Eric Azcuy, visual arts

School: Urban Assembly School for Applied Math & Schience

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Project Goal(s): To understand how to create a slab of clay that is a specific thickness and size using canvas and pressure.To understand the origins of written language. To clearly and neatly write your name using cuneiform from Mesopotamia. To understand technical manipulation of the medium of clay to realize a desired likeness.