The Art of Hand-Built Pottery: One Child's Creativity (Volume 1)

The Art of Hand-Built Pottery: Non-fiction Picture Book for Children. The satisfying outcome that will be achieved through these most simple steps and efforts makes clay a perfect and natural medium for children to be creative and also relaxed in the process of making the piece of art.The Art of Hand-Built Pottery becomes a relaxing therapeutic process. The philosopher Schopenhauer once wrote “Through art that human beings find release...”The book, The Art of Hand-Built Pottery, is an instructionally designed unit, designed to help young children (Pre-Schoolers, and challenged children) progress in stages towards building their own pieces of art. This curriculum is grounded in the following rational philosophical approaches: Constructivism, Existentialism and Humanism. These philosophies of learning allow space for diverse learning opportunities, providing children the opportunity to organize their own experiences in creating their own pieces of art. This instructionally based unit is the result of the integration of complex, practical, learning processes and theory. In the unit, experience coincides with theory and philosophy.I hope you will also enjoy this process.Osanna Kazezian Rosa

About the Author: Osanna lives in Sonoma County California with her husband Joe. They both enjoy yoga, hiking, sailing and cooking. Osanna has been involved in voluntary works, working with children from different settings. She has taught pre-school age children in a Montessori setting. She also admires the philosophy of Maria Montessori and her approach to the young child. Osanna's great passion is working with young children. She and her husband home schooled their two children, both of whom earned graduate level degrees. Adding to her unlimited passion she also enjoys constructing and hand building her well recognized ceramic platters that each presents an aura of the infinite cosmic explosions of colors. Selected pieces of her art work in ceramics were exhibited in Santa Monica, Sonoma State University and Lake Tahoe. Osanna has a B.A. in history and philosophy from UCLA and an M.A Curriculum Teaching and Learning from SSU.