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Contemporary Sculptors List

Here are a number of links to lead you to whole new worlds...go discover >> WIDEwalls > Contemporary sculptors you must follow ARTSY > Top 10 Today Wiki > Contemporary Sculptors 1960's Forward ARTsper Magazine > Top 10 Most Exciting Artists in North America Right NOW! ARTstory > Modern Sculptors

Project #5 > FAKE NATURE Up-cycles + Wearables

This project is an exciting one! It asks you to look carefully around your home, or where ever you are right now and think inventively and creatively of all the material that surrounds you! All of it, indeed, has  GREAT  P O T E N T I A L  The project asks you to create a  performative  work that will be video taped and uploaded to our FBsite .  VERY SLIGHT RULE CHANGE:   You can use yourself as the performer You can use a younger sibling Any family member you wish! And, yes, this includes a pet! Jen Pepper . Development of Colour Ranges through the Ages 2015 . Skagaströnd . ICELAND Icelandic wool knit, felted + worn by community members 94" x 40" > 239 x 101 cm. Color Chart published in: Paint & Painting, an exhibition and working studio  sponsored by Winsor & Newton @ The Tate Gallery, 1982 London, UK p.20 + 21 charting color ranges from *Cave *Egyptian * Greek * Italian **18th & 19th Century **20th Century More

Project #4 > Cardboard Construction

Project Objectives Beyond the shoe... Students will be introduced to the wide use of corrugated cardboard within art, design and beyond understand the many uses of corrugation understand the many uses of lamination understand the many uses of deconstruction of the material and construction into a new form understand the many uses of construction from the inside out and the membrane covering understand the strength and fragility of the material Students will create an animate or inanimate object in cardboard inspired by an object from life.  This may include a shoe, a tool, hardware, etc. This is your choice. Before beginning your work, you need to run by me your planned strategy in order to get to the high end finished form. RULE is: 1. Your constructed object MUST measure14" on one length 2. Your constructed object MUST be made entirely from corrugated cardboard 3. Students need to show evidence of the object in their sketchbooks 4. Students n

Project #3 > Plaster Bas-Relief

Additive + Subtractive Casting + Carving                                                                                                     MATERIALS Found hard materials with tactile variety, clay, plaster             IDEA GENERATION  In your sketch books, find 6 bas-relief works, minimum. Glue into sketch book, noting source materials, artist, size, etc. The tactile designs may be the source of inspiration for this assignment. Understand the variety of objects you have at your finger tips and what kind of "mark" they may make into soft clay.  Experiment with a variety of thicknesses and depths being pressed into the wet clay.   Learning Objectives Understanding how formal elements build visual language Become familiar with the sum of the parts to the whole Investigate thoroughly tactile variety, pattern while refining personal involvement with the formal principles and elements of design Idea generation from found forms: natural / human made Sur