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The Original Recycler: Louise Nevelson
Created by Lee-Jean Lin
January 2025
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Students will create their own free form relief sculpture with cardboard, foil, foam sheets and recycled materials using American sculptor Louise Nevelson’s monochromatic, wooden wall pieces as inspiration.
OBJECTIVES
● Students will learn about American sculptor Louise Nevelson, known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor installations.
● Students will create their own free form relief sculpture with cardboard, foam, foil and other recycled materials using Nevelson’s style as an inspiration.
SUPPLIES (Docents)
● Hot glue gun
● Hot glue sticks
SUPPLIES (PER STUDENT)
● one (1) 6” x 9” Chipboard or recycled cardboard from shipping box
● one (1) 8.5” x 11” Black cardstock
● 9“W x 11”L x 2mm (1/16”)D or more in thickness foam sheet (any color and cut into 4 sheets) If using foam sheets, give 1⁄4 of the sheet per student. (In lieu of foam, you can use 3-4 wood coffee stir sticks or straws per student for framing the composition.)
● one (1) 9” x 12” aluminum foil or larger (regular or heavyweight)
● foam brush
● pencil #2 with eraser
● scissors
SUPPLIES (Shared per 2 students)
● One (1) Tbsp Black Acrylic Paint
● One (1) Tbsp White Glue
● Masking Tape
● Scissors
● Recycled Materials (cardboard scraps, mesh, buttons, berry basket, popsicle stick, twine, Lego, rubber bands, dried pasta shapes or any small objects that are not too thick or sharp) Suggestion: have students in each class bring in recycled materials they have collected. Docents may supplement with foam shapes.)
ART VOCABULARY
Elements of Art – are stylistic features/ building blocks used to make a work of art. The seven most common elements include line, shape, form, space, value, texture, and color.
Assemblage – assemblage is a broad ranging term referring to sculpture or installation art that ‘assembles’ various found objects. In contrast with two dimensional collage, assemblage art is generally three dimensional.
Monochromatic – art with one color only. Mono means “one.” Chroma means “color.” Nevelson felt that one color paint can give her assemblage the feeling of unity, a principle of design.
Line – Element of Art. A basic yet impactful visual element. Lines can be used to define shapes and figures, but also to indicate motion, emotion, and other elements.
Texture – element of art that refers to the way an object feels to the touch or looks as it may feel. Can be real or an illusion.
Shape – element of art. We typically think of a shape as a closed contour. So, if you take a line and enclose it, then you will have created a shape.
DOWNLOAD
▪ Original Recycler Presentation
▪ Original Recycler Lesson Plan
▪ Original Recycler Tutorial Video
TEACHERS/PARENTS RESOURCES
▪ Distance Learning Tips – Suggestions to help make this experience enjoyable for all.
▪ Elements of Art – Resource sheet with vocabulary used by artists.
The Summer Show
July 20 – August 17, 2024
Juried all-media exhibition hosted by and open for submission only to members of the Palos Verdes Art Center’s seven active artists groups: Artists Open Group, Pacific Arts Group, Paletteers, Peninsula Artists, Photographic and Digital Artists, The Artists Studio, and Third Dimension.
JUROR: HIROMI TAKIZAWA
Hiromi Takazawa was born and raised in Nagano, Japan, and lives in southern California. Curiosity, experimentation, narrative, and materiality encapsulate her artistic practice. Hiromi has exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Heller Gallery and Urban Glass in New York, Orange County Museum of Art, CA, and group exhibitions at the Museum of American Glass in New Jersey and Huston Center of Contemporary Craft, Texas. S12 Gallery, Norway. Hiromi is an Associate Professor in Glass at California State University, Fullerton. She has taught workshops at Pilchuck Glass School in WA, Haystack Mountain of School of Crafts in MA, and Toyama Glass Institute in Japan.
