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Non-Traditional 2D Materials
Students needed to explore, plan, innovate, and compromise in order to meet this timed challenge successfully. Along the way, students discovered that using the same material repeatedly reveals patterns and creates a sense of unity in the work,
Non-Traditional 3D Materials
What artful thing might you do with yarn?
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Toilet paper rolls and paper clips?
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Creating parameters and restricting materials tests prior knowledge and forces innovative problem-solving , as seen here!
Problem-Solving Prototypes
On day 2, partners wrote copy and made presentations explaining and touting their problem-solving inventions!
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Tape as Sculpture Material
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They discovered the properties of tape, its challenges, and its benefits as a sculptural material. They used studio habits of mind like persistence and patience to come up with sculpting strategies and to negotiate and compromise with their
The resulting sculptures remind us of densely populated metropolitan areas, ships, craters, tanks, nests, city squares, and so on. Third graders broadened their own minds about using tape as a sculptural material. Have they changed yours?
Art Tools Challenge
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Artists then explored mark-making. What kinds of marks can each tool make? Students shared tools and explored textures by dragging, stippling, spinning, and pressing their tools to the paper.
Their large, abstract group paintings led to a lesson on Abstract Expressionism , the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world. Students were excited to ide
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