For our lab this week, we fired pots we made last week in kilns we constructed. The pots were made of “arb clay,” or clay extracted from the college’s arboretum, and from standard, regular clay that a beginner might work with due to its ease of handling. We were broken up into three groups to…

Due to the nature of this lab, most of the data I collected as data collector is qualitative and anecdotal to my experience and the experience of my group members.  Learning to Spin The first activity we didi in this lab was learn to spin using out hand spindles that Alejandata gave us. The spindle…