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It all started with a conversation at a barbeque with good friend, art teacher Tracey Suchy. She wanted to create totem poles with her students at West Newton Elementary School, [...]

According to Hendrik Willem van Loon, 'The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. ' [...]

If I were to choose the most memorable and motivational project I've done with my eighth-grade students over the past 10 years, it would have to be these wonderful plaster [...]

PRIMARY Use the Art Print to expand youngsters' knowledge of line. Show students the Art Print and have them use a finger to trace the course of the spiral. Ask [...]

Introduction Artists have used a variety of materials over the years for sculpting. They have been quick to use unusual pieces of technology to make a vibrant and unique statement, [...]

Have you and your students ever experimented with a material that was not only fun to work with, but presented a variety of challenging, creative possibilities? Styrofoam'® is just such [...]

Jack London said, 'You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.' When I checked my desk drawers and supply room, I realized I was [...]

The following project began simply enough. Two third-grade teachers asked if I would do an art lesson with their students for April's display case. This is not an unusual request [...]

How many times have teachers lamented at the failure of teenage students to reach outside their circle of friends, and get to know other students? How many misunderstandings, conflicts, lonely [...]

Popular and noted Western American artist Frederic Remington combined his passion of study of the Old West with technologies of his time to immortalize his artwork. During a journey in [...]

I have been teaching art for over 30 years, continually looking for that miraculous project that would engage sixth graders and ensure their artistic success. I finally composed a group [...]

It's a tree! It's a river! No, it's a Roxy Paine sculpture! My students and I were very excited to have the opportunity to watch a 50-foot stainless-steel sculpture being [...]

Sculpture can strengthen students' awareness of form, texture, contour and depth of field and enrich tactile perception. During this unit of study on relief sculpture I stressed creative thinking. I [...]

A year or so ago, my student intern made a display of student artwork that included wires he twisted to form a tree, from which he dangled display items. We […]

Discarded 24-gauge telecommunications wire offers grand sculptural possibilities. It is fine gauge and very pliable. It is easily bent, curled, twisted, and otherwise contorted into fascinating linear designs. Plastic-coated in [...]

This project was developed for 'gifted and talented' elementary students in grades three through five as part of a summer enrichment program at a local community college. As an accelerated [...]

Several years ago my husband was asked to make a few figures for a parade float. He devised a method of laminating styrofoam pieces, for bulk, and 'macheing' them for [...]

Attributed to the Boread Painter, Lakonian Black-Figure Kylix, interior: Bellerophon and Pegasos Battle the Chimaera, Sparta (in Lakonia), 570-565 B.C., terracotta, height: 4 11/16' (12 cm), diameter of bowl: 5 [...]

Japan, Dancing Fox Netsuke, 18th century, ivory, 2 13/16 x 1 13/16 x 15/16.' (7 x 4.6 x 2.4 cm). Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell [...]

How many of these two- and three dimensional art forms and media have your students been introduced to, in studio or art-history experiences? 2-D ARTWORKS DRAWINGS are made by moving [...]

Art educators are aware that one way to inspire students is to introduce them to prominent artists. We all know that many students have preconceived notions that artists only become [...]

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, who have been married over 30 years, take items from popular culture and transform them into giant sculptures that are on display all over [...]

Democratic Republic of Congo, Vili-Kongo, Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi), early/mid-19th century, Wood, metal, glass, fabric, fibers, cowrie shells, bones, leather, gourds, and feathers, 28 1/3' (72 cm). The Art Institute [...]

Indian, Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur, Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Shiva Nataraja), Choir dynasty, 10th-11th century Bronze, 27 1/4 x 27 1/4' (69 x 69 cm). The Art Institute of [...]

All the time it takes and yet I still want to make another storypot! A storypot is a big clay vessel covered with small student-made sculptures based on a theme, [...]

India, Uttar Pradesh. Dancing Ganesha, tenth century Sandstone, 23 5/8 x 12 3/4 x 6' (60 x 32 x 15 cm) The Art Institute of Chicago, the James and Marilyn [...]

Randolph Rogers. Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii, modeled 1855-56, carved 1858 Marble, 55' (140 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, bequest of Mrs Uri Balcom. 1896.77 This sculpture [...]

'I saw the Angel in the Marble and I carved until I set him free ...' --Michelangelo As an art educator, these words of Michelangelo resonated with me as my [...]

Purpose How to sculpt human proportions in clay Materials Each student is given five pounds of white, earthenware clay (firing to cone 05). Ceramic tools (popsicle sticks can be substituted), [...]

Each year I like to do a series of art experiences with a common thread throughout the elementary grades one through six. This gives students something in common as well [...]

This art problem surprised me. I was taking apart a circuit board and was inspired to put the pieces together to make a Star Trek style scanner. My students saw [...]

How do artists or architects design and build massive structures so they stay upright? This was the main learning objective of my sculpture lesson for my combined-grade middle-school art class. […]

PRIMARY It is safe to say that most youngsters have never seen a swine like the one featured in this month's Arts & Activities Art Print. Share the print with [...]

This sculpture project was inspired by Cows on Parade, a city-wide installation sculpture project held in Chicago, Illinois, during the summer of 1999. Cows on Parade was a cooperative effort [...]

Students of any age are always enthusiastic over their sculpture lesson when the medium is clay. The small clay animal pots created by my Art I and Art II classes [...]

The DVD, Techniques of Sculpture: Geometry in the Clay Portrait, was created by the artists/educators at PCF Studios specifically for secondary-level art students and teachers. The interdisciplinary concept presented in [...]

Artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) created wonderful environments inside boxes using mostly found objects. They were often Surrealistic in nature. Some boxes were designed with glass fronts, and others were meant [...]

The art teacher was introducing a unit on subtractive sculpture. She asked the class for a word 'that starts with an 's' and means taking away.' One child raised her [...]

'Think outside the box!' I wonder how many times I said those words to my upper level sculpture students? In fact it became so familiar that when I designed the [...]

We created functional and fanciful sculptures, integrating language arts and three-dimensional design. The eighth-grade art students translated puns, metaphors, and oxymorons into visual images. This project attempts to strengthen the [...]

Children of all ages love to dream up wild and imaginary characters. Creating unusual ways to draw made-up beings is so much fun; after all an imaginary creature can have [...]