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From Relief to Free Standing Sculpture

In this lesson, you will:

Make shapes stand up by rolling, folding, slot-joining
Arrange and rearrange your forms to create a free-standing sculpture

You will need:

2 sheets of paper that are the same color

Scissors

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What is a free-standing sculpture?

A free-standing sculpture �is 3 dimensional. It has many sides, and you can walk around it. It is called free-standing because �it is not attached to a background paper or base.

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From Relief to Free Standing Sculpture: Making Paper Stand

Select a piece of paper and cut it in half. Cut the other paper into thin and wide strips. How can you make �the strips of paper stand up, or become 3D?

Try rolling and folding the strips of paper and standing them in different ways. You can make a slot-joint to create a new form that stands up. Make at least 5 different pieces that stand.

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From Relief to Free Standing Sculpture: Building a Sculpture

Now that you have some pieces that are standing, �you can build with them to make a sculpture. Try turning them onto different sides �and see all the ways they �can stand-up.

Try balancing, leaning and stacking your pieces of paper.

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From Relief to Free Standing Sculpture: Arrange and Rearrange your Sculpture

Arrange and rearrange your pieces in different ways.

Which pieces will you balance, lean, stand and stack?

Remember to turn your sculpture, or walk around it, so that you can see it from many different angles.

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From Relief to Free Standing Sculpture: Reflection

How did you change your paper from 2D to 3D?

How did you make your paper stand?

How did you build with your paper? Which pieces did you balance, lean, stand, or stack?��Resource:�Explore imaginary paper structures in the stage sets of the architect Frank Gehry through the linked article and gallery.

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Remote Arts Learning Partnership

Module Two �

Studio in a School NYC Team

Julie Applebaum, Senior Director

Remote Arts Learning Partnership Project DIrector

Writing Team Project Team

Nina Berinstein Juanita Lanzo Belinda Blum Nicola Giardina Paul Urevitch

Belinda Blum Traci Talasco Andrea Burgay Katherine Huala

Graphic Design

Don Giordano

NYC Department of Education OASP Team

Karen Rosner, Director of Visual Arts

Amber Lodman, Arts Program Manager Kaitlin Trammell, Remote Arts Learning Partnership Project Coordinator

NYC Department of Education Visual Arts Teacher Team

Maria Bonilla Susan Bricker Amie Robinson Lara Tyson

These educational materials were created through a partnership with Studio in a School NYC and The New York City Department of Education Office of Arts and Special Projects (OASP) and made possible by the generosity of The New York Community Trust.