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Exploring Paper With Your Hands: Relief Sculpture

A relief is a type of sculpture.

It has pieces that stand up, but it is attached to a background so you can’t walk all the way around it like other kinds of sculptures.

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Exploring Paper With Your Hands

In this lesson, you will:

Use your hands to �change paper into �different shapes
Arrange your shapes �in different ways on �your paper

You will need:

3 different colored papers

Glue or tape

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Exploring Paper With Your Hands: Tearing and Folding

What are some different ways we can change paper using just our hands to make a relief?

Choose a paper to start. Tear the paper to make a shape. What do you notice about the edge? How many interesting shapes �can you make by tearing the paper?

Choose one of your torn shapes and fold �it back and forth like a fan. Choose another torn shape. What happens if you twist it?

Fold

Tear

Twist

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Exploring Paper With Your Hands: Crumple and Fringe

Use your whole hand �and crumple the paper. �What happens if you roll �the paper? Create a fringe by making several small tears in a row.

Can you discover another way to change the paper with your hands?

Crumple

Fringe

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Exploring Paper With Your Hands: Arranging Your Shapes

Arrange and rearrange your shapes on your background paper.

�Try placing your shapes next to each other, far apart, underneath and overlapping.

Glue or tape down your favorite arrangement.

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Exploring Paper With Your Hands: Reflection

How did you change your paper?

How did you arrange your shapes?�

Resource:�Enormous, life-size curving sculptures by artist Richard Serra: https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/21794

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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.