8TH GRADE

L E S S O N

P L A N

SIX ONE-HOUR CLASSES

LOUISE NEVELSON SCULPTURES

USING PREVIOUSLY USED DONATED MATERIALS- STUDENTS MAKE COLLAGE SCULPTURES IN THE STYLE OF LOUISE NEVLESON!

Students use recycled junk to create sculptures!

Its amazing how much stuff people throw away every day! Instead of lling up landlls with little odds and ends, people should consider donating their junk to a local art teacher or scrap supply place. Great art can be made from many different things, and assemblage sculptures are one of the easiest ways to utilize your scraps into pieces of art. Sculptures in the style of Louise Nevelson provide a great use for that stuff that would have been tossed!

STEP ONE: GATHER MATERIALS

STEP TWO: GLUE IT TOGETHER

STEP THREE: PAINT ONE COLOR

PROCESS:
Beforehand: Ask students to bring in materials to use on project. Discuss options like old toys, old electronics, styrofoam... Day One: Talk to students about Louise Nevelson. Hand out Arts and Activities Magazine featuring Nevelson. Ask students to read and ll out worksheet on Nevelson. Talk to students about what the project is about and lead discussion analyzing Nevelsons work. Have students divide into groups of three or four for each project. Have groups brainstorm and sketch a design for their sculptures. Day Two: Give students at styrofoam to start with, have them add materials as designed with glue. Day Three: Students continue adding pieces to sculptures. Day Four: Students nish up adding pieces to sculptures. Day Five: Students choose one color to paint the entire sculpture. Students mix paint color and start painting all over every piece on their sculptures, making sure to get paint into every nook and cranny. Day Six: STUDENTS ARE ABLE TO WORK AS A GROUP TO BUILD THEIR SCULPTURES, PROMOTING COLLABORATIVE LEARNING Students continue painting their pieces. When nished, students hang them on the wall for class critique. LOUISE NEVELSON

LOUISE NEVELSON

Dawn's Wedding Chapel IV- 1959

Royal Tide I, 1960

One of our classes nished pieces. Looks a lot like Nevelsons doesnt it?
Rain Garden II

PHOTOS!

ABOVE: STUDENTS WORKING ON PAINTING AND ASSEMBLING SCULPTURES.

WHEN THEY STARTED THE PROJECT, MANY STUDENTS WERE HESITANT ABOUT IT. THEY THOUGHT THAT WHAT THEY WERE MAKING LOOKED UGLY. WHEN THEY FINALLY FINISHED THEM AND THEY WERE PAINTED THEY WERE SURPRISED HOW WELL THEY CAME TOGETHER IN THE END.