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Adventures in Collage

Adventures �in Collage

Lesson 4

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Cutting Shapes

Take a close look at your collage.

What new shapes did you make using scissors?

Did you like cutting shapes more than tearing? Why?

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Cutting Shapes: Writing

Choose two different shapes from �your collage.

How are they different?

How are they the same?

Write your answer using these �sentence starters:

Both shapes are _________ .

One shape is __________ but the other �is ________.

Small, large, round, organic, geometric, smooth, bumpy, curvy, zigzag, circle, square, rectangle, triangle

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Cutting Shapes: Sketchbook

Choose 1 shape from �your collage that you like.

Draw it on your paper.

Add details to the �shape to change it into �something else.

What does it remind you of? An animal? A car? �A kind of food? What details can you add to change it into that thing?

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Cutting Shapes: Close Looking

Look closely at this �collage by Romare Bearden.

What geometric shapes do you notice?

What organic shapes do you notice?

Do you notice any places where the artist overlapped the shapes?

Resource:�Collage Lesson on �Shapes from The National Gallery of Art

Romare Bearden, Woman and Child, 1940, colored and printed papers and pencil on masonite board

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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

Andrea Burgay Jill Slaymaker Belinda Blum Nicola Giardina Paul Urevitch

Traci Talasco Monika Zarzeczna 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.