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Exploring and Changing Cardboard: Close Looking: Louise Nevelson

Look closely at this sculpture by Louise Nevelson.

What lines and shapes do you notice?

How did this artist arrange the forms? Where do you see forms that stand? Stack? Lean? Balance?��Resource:�More work by Louise Nevelson: http://www.artnet.com/artists/louise-nevelson/

Louise Nevelson. City on the High Mountain. 1983. Painted steel, 20 ft. 6 in. x 23 ft. x 13 ft. 6 in., Storm King Art Center, New York. (on cover)

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Exploring and Changing Cardboard: Materials

Artists pay close attention to the materials they use. In this activity, �you will explore your materials and �what makes them unique.

You will need:

A piece of corrugated cardboard �(from a shipping box)

A piece of thin cardboard �(from a paper towel roll or cereal box)

2 pieces of paper or a sketchbook

A pencil

Your shapes from Lesson #5

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Exploring and Changing Cardboard: Writing

Take out your paper, thin cardboard, and corrugated cardboard. Pick up each material and notice how it looks and feels.

In your sketchbook, or on a piece of paper, make 3 columns.

Label one column “Paper,” one column “Thin Cardboard” and one column “Corrugated Cardboard.”

In each column, write 3-5 words that describe that material.

How are these materials the same? How are they different?

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Exploring and Changing Cardboard: Sketchbook

Look at your cardboard pieces from Lesson #5.

How did you change them?

What new shapes did �you invent?

Take some time to observe these new shapes and draw them.

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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.

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