WorksheetsALABAMA FOLK POTTERY- January 22, 2021, Friday
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 34mins
Folk potters made jugs with anthropomorphic qualities. What does anthropomorphic mean?
Having the appearance of an insect, like an ant.
Having human characteristics
Looking like a fierce animal.
None of the above.
Towns that became centers for pottery production were called by what name?
Clay repositories
Town of jugs
Juglerville
Jug Town
Which town, listed below, was called a jug town, in the assigned article?
Gardendale
Birmingham
Tuscaloosa
Gadsden
A potter, in looking for a place to work his trade would locate near...
running water.
a large city.
a clay deposit.
a farming community.
Stoneware pottery is fired at a temperature of...
2,500 degrees
2,000 degrees
1,500 degrees.
1,000 degrees
One stoneware tradition was to glaze pottery by a process called...
Salt glazing
Gloss glazing
Pickled glazing
Low fire glazing
A second stoneware glazing tradition was called...
alkaline glazing.
High fire glazing
Groundhog firing glazing.
Pit firing glazing
Lime or wood ash was the ingredient used for which glazing tradition of folk potters?
Alkaline glazing.
Salt glazing.
What mode of transportation opened up new innovations of pottery that impacted the folk potter's business?
Large freight trucks
Clipper ships
railways
airlines
What jug brought the highest price to the folk potter?
Face jug.
Crock pot.
Butter churn.
Flower pot.
True or False.
The age of electrification reduced the need for pottery as a means of food preservation.
True
False
What is the name of the Alabama folk potter you read about, Thursday, January 21, 2021.
Bob Green
Wilber Smith
Jerry Brown
Sam Williams
True or False
Traditional folk pottery, in the mid-twentieth-century, transitioned into an art form of folk art.
True
False
The traditional folk potter sold his ware by what means?
by the gallon.
by the weight.
by the color.
by the height.
By what means did, Jerry Brown, turn his pug mill?
By a horse.
By a mule.
By a tractor.
By an electric motor.
True or False
Jerry Brown no longer digs his own clay.
True
False
What pottery piece of Jerry Brown sells for the most money?
Face jug.
Coffee mug
Butter churn
Putcher
Jerry Brown, has five pieces of folk pottery in which museum?
Guggenheim
Smithsonian
Mary Harden Museum of Art
Museum of Chicago
Which method of making pottery does Jerry Brown use?
Pottery Wheel.
Coil Method.
Slab Method.
Pinch Method.
Pottery's main purpose has always been...
Utilitarian
Useful
functional
All the above
