NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers, Oaxaca 2014 (Proposed)

Oaxacan Ceramic Figurines by Deb Strother

If you would like to use (or adapt) one of these curricular units for teaching about pottery (in Spanish or as an art lesson, for example), please feel free to choose from the materials provided below. Please credit the teacher who made the unit.

• Deborah Strother and Christy Gill, “Stories in Clay: Oaxacan Ceramic Folk Art”
  • Lesson Plan (DOC)
  • Lesson Plan – EdSite Format (DOC)
  • Stories in Clay (PPTX, M4V)

Copyright Free Photos for Instructional Use

• Stills by Deb Strother of Potter Angélica Vásquez of Atzompa: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Stills by Nicole Caracciolo shot in San Marcos Tlapazola: 1, 2, 3
• Stills by Stephanie Wood from San Marcos Tlapazola: 1, 2

• Video Clips by Nicole Caracciolo, shot in San Marcos Tlapazola
• Documentary on folk art with some attention to the potters of Atzompa
• “Pottery Workers of Oaxaca,” by Ralph Adams (1952), an online video in two parts, including a focus on San Bartolo Coyotepec (one could have students take a critical look at the way this material is presented in that period)
• “Mexican Ceramics,” by Reino Randall and Richard Townsend (1966), an online video that includes a look at ceramics in San Bartolo Coyotepec and other places in other states within the republic of Mexico