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Lesson Plans


Re: High School Sculpture

From: Dennis Freeman (freemad)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 08:57:31 PST

>I am looking for a great high school sculpture project that I can do for
>Studio Art classes (mostly ninth graders, but also 10-12th). I already do a
>lot of clay work and I'm looking for something new and exciting.

Last year, my adv. art class did a collaborative project using junk and/or
recycled materials. We used Plains tipis as a focus, and started by
studying these and inviting an expert in to put up a reproduction tipi
complete with robes, bags, backrests, etc. (We shared this with non-art
classes - it was really exciting seeing a 20' tipi in the commons area!)
Following this, students formed teams to reproduce the items needed for a
functional tipi out of recycled or discarded materials. Poles were made
from recycled pipe sections, a local industry donated the ends of some
rolls of reinforced plastic sheeting for the cover and liner, bags were
made from old luggage, beds from old blankets & packing "beans", and
remnants of old latex paint were combined with some acrylic to decorate the
cover and other items.
This was great fun, and you could pick any culture - N'Dbele houses? Yurts?
Iroquois longhouses? The students learned a lot about another culture's
housing & lifestyle, and had to be creative with materials.
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