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Article: Free-standing cardboard sculpture.(Cover Story)
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- Arts & Activities
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- May 1, 2005
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Wonderful sculpture can be made with simple materials and imagination. Cardboard is readily available to use as a flat painted surface and a three-dimensional sculptural object. This is just what art teacher Jean Hanna did with her seventh- and eighth-grade Art II students at Spencer Butte Middle School in Eugene, Ore.
Jean began by showing slides of work by Alexander Calder, the American artist who built mobiles and stabiles, initially out of paper, then large sheets of steel. She also showed slides of some of her students' projects from previous years. She then asked students to work in teams of two to three to design and build small, 12-inch tabletop models of ...