Stephanie Frank Cliffwood
Elementary School
422
Cliffwood Ave
Cliffwood,
NJ 07721
Sfrank@marsd.k12.nj.us
TITLE: Tooling
Around
CLASS: Grades K-5
TIME: Two
45 min. periods
NJ STANDARDS & OBJECTIVES:
1.1 Aesthetics: awareness of free standing, relief, public
sculptures and connection between Jazz and Art.
1.2 Studio
Skills: select, cut and combine Xerox images of tools, art supplies and musical
instrument shapes.
1.3 Design
& Media: picture - flat, two dimensional vs. sculpture - relief, raised, free
standing, three-dimensional.
1.4 Assessment:
Did pupil use tool shapes in an innovative way? Can pupil see and hear the connection
between Jazz and Art? [Picasso]
1.5 History:
African American artists -Jim Gary creates massive sculptures and dinosaur skeletons
from sheet metal, machinery and car parts. Mel Edwards [Rutgers Univ. Prof. Of
Art] creates assemblage sculptures of welded steel forms and tools while
creating African American history within a contemporary format.
1.6 Design
Solutions: listen to Jazz music while you create a design for a three
dimensional sculpture. Select and cut shapes from Xerox sheets of
"tools". Assemble, and paste together to make a person, animal or
imaginary form. Color, cut, fold, pop-out the background paper or use 3~D 0's
for depth, creating a setting for your installation [city, park, museum].
ASSESSMENT: teacher observation, finished product.
VOCABULARY: sculptor, sculpture, relief, free standing,
assemblage, additive, subtractive, positive and negative space, proportion,
distortion, functional, decorative, two dimensional, three dimensional form.
MATERIALS: Jazz music, books about dinosaurs, scissors, paste,
markers, crayons, asst. paper, 3-D 0 's, Xerox copies of farm implements &
tools, art tools, and musical instruments.
LESSON CLOSURE: Jim Gary and Mel Edwards welded forms to resemble the
shapes of modern industry, farm implements, art materials and musical
instruments. They change the way we think about "tools" and put them
in a new context. While working in their studios they listen to Jazz.
INTEGRATED CONTENT AREA: music, science, social studies.