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Expressive Face Assemblage

In this lesson, you will use all that you’ve learned in previous lessons about how a variety of materials from around your home can be used in art making to create an Expressive Face Assemblage.

You will need:

All the tools and materials you have collected

Calixte Dakpogan, Papa Sodabi, 2002

Steel, metal, plastic, glass and other found materials

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Expressive Face Assemblage: Materials

Layout all the materials you have collected over the last several weeks – including your attachment and transformation experiments.

Have all of your materials ready to use for attaching, such as string, tape, glue, safety pins, wire and rubber bands.

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Expressive Face Assemblage: Arranging Your Face

Think about how you will start. �Will you start with the head? �Will you start with the nose? �What materials could be used for the head, nose, eyes, mouth, ears, and hair?

Spend time arranging the face before attaching the materials. Look at your previous experiments and attachments and see what could work for your face.

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Expressive Face Assemblage: Expression

Think back to your expressive face sketches from lesson 2. How can simple line changes, such as angle, shape, size and position change the emotions?

How do straight lines feel versus round lines? Remember that scale can exaggerate certain features and add expression to your face.

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Expressive Face Assemblage: Attaching the Features

Determine a strategy for developing your face by attaching and transforming.

What is the most successful technique to attach your materials to each other? �Is it tying, braiding, wrapping, taping or gluing?

You can also transform with color by adding a colored paper or using paint.

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Expressive Face Assemblage: Adding Details

Where can you add more texture, color or shape? What details can you add to enhance and portray a specific expression or personality for your assemblage?

This artist used a marker to add pupils to the eyes and crumpled the metal around the face to add more texture.

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Expressive Face Assemblage: Reflection

How did you start creating your face? What facial feature did you create first?

What challenges did you encounter? How did you overcome them?

What techniques did you use to transform your materials?

Calixte Dakpogan, Ambassadeur, 2010

Metal, plastic, paper, lightbulb, synthetic hair and other found materials

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Remote Arts Learning Partnership

Module One �

Studio in a School NYC Team

Julie Applebaum, Senior Director

Remote Arts Learning Partnership Project DIrector

Writing Team Project Team

Nick DeMarco Jamie Powell Belinda Blum Nicola Giardina Paul Urevitch

Robin Holder Tim Thyzel 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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