Louise Nevelson Assemblage Sculptures

As we continue looking at shapes, the first grade students are digging a little deeper than just circle, square, and triangle. We started talking about how other shapes, maybe shapes without names could be a part of our artwork. We talked about what a sculpture was and what it means to make an assemblage. In order to look at all of these things, we framed the lesson by learning about famous sculpture artist Louise Nevelson. I found a great PowerPoint online (click here) which I just edited a little bit for our purposes. Then we used this great Smart board activity (found here) to practice placing found objects in our assemblages and how they should lay close to one another, fill up the space, and may even overlap or go off the page!

 

 

Then students began the gluing. I had a lot of wooden shapes from previous art teachers and someone donated a bunch of Styrofoam pieces. I thought, what a perfect time to have these donated! The kids are still in the process of gluing down their found objects. I'll be sure to post a follow up to these awesome Louise Nevelson-inspired assemblage sculptures!