5 sessions; 45 minutes per session

Objectives: SWBAT…
- understand importance of recycling
- discuss artwork that uses recycled materials
- compare and contrast different 3D forms
- brainstorm new ways to use materials
- create a 3D vessel using magazines

Materials: glue sticks, magazines, rulers, tape, glue/sealant, newspaper, foam brushes

Need these materials? Visit Blick!

- Look at images of work made by women’s collectives in Vietnam and also on Ten Thousand Villages’ website
- Discuss use of recycled materials -- why did the artists start using these unlikely art supplies? Why is important to recycle/reuse?
- How do you think these pieces were made?
- Compare to clay artists using coiling method to make clay vessels
- Demonstrate folding magazine pages into thin strips -- sides should remain parallel
- Use glue stick sparingly and be able to shape vessel later
- Use edge of table to make the paper strips more likely to want to curve
- To make bowl, start with one tightly rolled coil, and continue adding more strips to make circle
- To make vase, wrap strips around plastic water bottle and use small bits of tape; overlap each strip
- When finished forming vessels, coat with thin coat of Mod Podge or glue

Extension: Add spirals to top edge of bowl; brainstorm other ideas for making vessels from recycled materials; make magazine beads (need toothpicks)

Did student…-participate in discussions? -create a 3-D vessel following directions?

http://www.societyofcrafts.org/

and

Ten Thousand Villages store/website

[5-8] Students select media, techniques, and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices

[5-8] Students integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks

[5-8] Students analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art

[5-8] Students describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts

[5-8] Students know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures

[5-8] Students compare multiple purposes for creating works of art

[5-8] Students describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts

Arts and Crafts Movement

Balance, Form, Rhythm/Pattern, Unity/Harmony

Sculpture

Multicultural Studies, Science