Category Archives: Pottery

BHS Empty Bowls Project

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Berlin High School Empty Bowls Project

This March, the BHS Art Department will host it’s first Empty Bowls event. The Empty Bowls Project is an international grassroots effort that began over 25 years ago to raise both money and awareness in the fight to end hunger. Schools and organizations across the country have utilized this unique concept as a way to join together the visual arts and the community.

The event will take place Thursday March 10, 2016 in the BHS cafeteria, from 5:30-7:30 pm. Tickets are $10 for children/ students and $15 for adults and will be available for sale at the door.

Guests attending the event will be share a meal of soups, pastas, breads and desserts, and choose a handmade “empty bowl” to take home and keep as a reminder of all the people within the community that do not have a meal to eat. These ceramic bowls are one of a kind artworks, handmade by the students and staff at BHS.

Proceeds of the event will be donated to the Berlin Food Pantry to aid families within our own community.

For any questions please contact Caitlin DeSorbo at cdesorbo@berlinschools.org.

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2016 Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards Competition!

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We are very excited to announce that Rebecca Soderburg has been awarded an Honorable Mention in at the 2016 Regional Connecticut Scholastic Art Awards! Rebecca is one of Mrs. DeSorbo’s Pottery I students this year!

The Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards Program is a non-profit, all volunteer activity which is sponsored by the Connecticut Art Education Association.  This program is a high quality level, professionally juried event which recognizes only the best CT student art work. All CT art students in public, parochial and private schools are encouraged to participate and submit high quality art work. Student artwork is juried by professional artists and university art faculty and is selected on merit for inclusion in a state-wide art exhibition held at the Hartford Art School. Beyond the honor of being selected for this high quality exhibit, students may be awarded Gold or Silver keys and Honorable Mention Awards.

Rebecca’s artwork will be on display January 17th – February 5th at Silpe Gallery, Hartford Art School on the University of Hartford campus. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm and weekends from 12 pm to 4 pm.

Please join us in congratulating Rebecca on her achievement!

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Alternative Firings Workshop

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On March 18, 2015, Mrs. DeSorbo’s Pottery II and III students took a field trip to the studio of artist Vicente Garcia.  Garcia is the ceramics professor at Central Connecticut State University as well as a nationally recognized ceramic and sculpture artist.  Throughout the day, students participated in an Alternative Firings Workshop where they had the opportunity to finish their pieces using smoking techniques and the Raku process.  Raku refers to a type of firing that was developed in Japan in the 16th century.  Within in this process, the pieces are loaded into a hot kiln and heated until the glaze is molten.  Then the pieces are transferred into a metal can filled with combustibles.  The carbonaceous atmosphere causes a reaction, creating unique effects with the glazes.  Students were also able to use slips, copper and hair to finish their work.

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