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The technique you use to create a pinch pot.
What is pinching?
True or False: the oldest piece of pottery dates back over 27,000 years ago.
True
Super wet clay that is like mud is called this.
What is slip?
This is the name of the oven that clay goes into to be fired.
What is a kiln?
James Hubert Blake's nickname was ____.
What is Eubie?
Long snakes of clay we use to build a pot.
What are coils?
Doing this gets the clay ready to be shaped and gets the air bubbles out.
What is wedging?
This is the stage of clay that is fresh out of the bag and great to make something new.
What is plastic?
Bisqueware is clay that has been _____ but not glazed.
What is fired?
Blake played this instrument.
What is the piano?
In order to stick clay to clay, you must do this.
What is scratch and attach (aka score and slip)?
Clay left out uncovered will do this.
What is dry out?
This is the stage of clay where it is completely dry but hasn't gone into the kiln yet.
What is bone dry?
This is the name of the reddish clay that is fired at lower temperatures in the kiln.
What is earthenware?
Blake was born and raised in this city.
What is Baltimore, Maryland?
What a flat, rolled out piece of clay is called.
What is a slab?
The walls of a pinch pot should be about the width of a ____.
What is a finger?
This is the stage of clay that is great for etching and building with slabs.
What is leather hard?
This is the gray clay that is fired at higher temperatures in the kiln.
What is stoneware?
This is the year Blake High School first opened.
What is 1998?
The machine potters used to spin the clay as they shape it with their hands.
What is a potter's wheel?
This is the amount of time that is takes pottery to decompose.
What is tens of thousands of years... or never?
This is what we call any clay that has not yet been fired in the kiln.
What is greenware?
Stoneware clay fires at over this temperature.
What is 2000 F degrees?
Blake High School was originally going to be named after this other creative genius (hint: he created Kermit the Frog).
Who is Jim Henson?