1. Gather Materials: Collect various small objects like buttons, beads, cardboard scraps, paper clips, bottle caps, and any other small, interesting items that can fit inside a pizza box. Basically, clean out your junk drawer.
2. Explore Shapes and Textures: Talk about shapes (like squares, circles, and triangles) and textures (like smooth, rough, and bumpy) with the students. Show examples of Nevelson's artwork and discuss how she used different shapes and textures in her art.
3. Fill the Pizza Boxes: Distribute the pizza boxes to each homeroom and department faculty and staff. Encourage everyone to fill their boxes with the collected objects, arranging them in interesting ways to create patterns and textures. We ordered pizza boxes in different sizes to share with homerooms, faculty and staff.
4. Think About Composition: Discuss with the students how they can arrange the objects to create interesting compositions. Encourage them to experiment with different layouts before gluing the objects down.
5. Glue or Arrange: Depending on the preference of the art department, either glue the objects down to create a permanent arrangement or simply arrange them inside the box without gluing for a temporary display.
6. Spray Painting: Once all the pizza boxes are filled, the art department can spray paint them all in a unified color scheme, just like Nevelson often painted her sculptures in monochromatic tones. We bought an array of colors different brands too.
7. Installation: Finally, the art department can arrange the painted pizza boxes into a large assemblage, perhaps stacking them or arranging them in a grid pattern on a wall or display area.
Throughout the process, emphasize creativity, experimentation, and collaboration among the students and faculty. Encourage them to have fun and enjoy the experience of creating art together in the spirit of Louise Nevelson's assemblage artworks.
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