Ann Weber was born in 1950 in Jackson, Michigan, and earned her BA in art history from Purdue University in 1972. Weber's works are made entirely of cardboard - plain, ordinary stuff she scavenges from wherever, cuts and staples to build shapes, then shellacs. Plentiful, pliable, and lightweight, it's been her sole medium for 20 years, and still offers "limitless possibilities."

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"I'm interested in rela­tionships," says Ann Weber. "Why they work, why they don't work. All the emotions that come and go throughout life. Balancing acts - art, life, family. How far can you go before it all collapses?"

Weber explores these big ideas in her often enormous sculptures, biomorphic forms that have towered as high as 16 feet.

Ann Weber

Boogie Woogie B + W, 2019

Cardboard, staples, polyurethane

55 × 60 × 4 in

139.7 × 152.4 × 10.2 cm

Ann Weber

Almost 16, Almost 15 and 1/2, 2002

Cardboard, staples, polyurethane, steel bases

82 x 48 x 49 (left) and 177 x 38 x 38 (right) inches

Ann Weber

Happiest Days of Our Lives (#7, 8a, 8-11), 2019

Found cardboard, staples, polyurethane

96 × 108 × 12 in

243.8 × 274.3 × 30.5 cm

Ann Weber

Personages (We Three), 2013

Found cardboard, staples, polyurethane

From left: 114.5 x 21 x 23

110 x 28 x 24

119 x 37 x 38

Ann Weber

Little Isamu, White, 2016

Found cardboard, staples, polyurethane

33 × 23 × 23 in

83.8 × 58.4 × 58.4 cm

Ann Weber

My Turn, 2018

Found cardboard, staples, polyurethane

96 × 28 × 10 in

243.8 × 71.1 × 25.4 cm

Start Time: 2:00

End Time: 5:03

A Weber inspired artwork

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• Create plans that include different ideas about your perspective on life and/or the world.

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• Think about what textures and forms you would use and why.

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• What you are trying to communicate with your work, what do you want the viewer to feel?

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• Using intentional textures and shapes, begin to sketch your compositions.

Ms. Tschumper’s Weber Inspired Work

Follow the planning process rubric

The Final Product