Spencer Museum of Art The University of Kansas
Classroom Collection | Checkout Procedures | Teacher Evaluation

The Classroom Collection

An outreach program for Lawrence-area schools
Plate by Michael Bradley Michael Bradley Plate
ceramic

Scanning Questions:

  1. Would you describe the shapes on the plate as geometric and orderly or natural and irregular?
  2. What elements (line, shape, color, texture) do you see repeated?
  3. Besides the painted glaze, how did the artist make the wavy lines?
  4. Does this object look plain and simple or busy and tangled?
  5. Connections to other works in the Classroom Collection
    detail: Turned Bowl by Cotter Mitchell   detail: Snow on the Flint Hills by Clare Bell