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Exploring and Changing Cardboard: Close Looking: Charles Luce

What material is this free-standing sculpture made from?

Why do you think the artist choose to work with cardboard instead of paper to create this free-standing sculpture?

Did the artist use any techniques that you tried? Which ones?

Charles Luce. Stacking Stones. 1999-2016. Corrugated cardboard and India ink,

48 x 20 x 12” (on cover)

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Exploring and Changing Cardboard

In this lesson, you will �explore different ways to cut and change cardboard.

You will need:

Corrugated cardboard �(from shipping boxes)

Thin cardboard (from paper towel rolls or cereal boxes)

Scissors

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Exploring and Changing Cardboard: Cutting

Look at the corrugated cardboard you’ve collected. What do you notice about the cardboard? How is it different from paper?

Cut some large and medium geometric shapes. You can cut a straight line through the middle of a large rectangle to make two squares. How can you cut a square to make two triangles?

Cut as many shapes as you can and keep them for the next two lessons.

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Exploring and Changing Cardboard: Cutting Lines

You can change your shapes further by cutting different lines onto the edge of the corrugated cardboard.

What kind of line will you cut? Try a zigzag or a curved line.

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Exploring and Changing Cardboard: Cutting Thin Cardboard

Now choose a piece of thin cardboard from cereal boxes and a paper towel roll.

Cut straight lines from the boxes to make wide strips.

How can you cut the paper towel roll to make circles?

Cut as many wide strips and circles as you can to use for the next two lessons.

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Exploring and Changing Cardboard: Rolling, Peeling and Folding

Explore changing the cardboard by rolling, peeling, and folding. Which type of cardboard works best for each action?

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Exploring and Changing Cardboard: Reflection

What new shapes did you cut out of cardboard?

How did you change the cardboard?

Where did you notice patterns?

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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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