Art 3D Syllabus
3 Dimensional Art is a graded course where students are evaluated on their work habits, creativity, and overall effort. This 18 week course will have students explore many different types of 3D art, and go in depth with control and skill building strategies with these materials. Students will have the opportunity to find areas of 3 Dimensional Art that are interesting to them, and also try other materials that they may have little experience.
The students’ responsibilities are as follows:
The projects are split into 3 main categories: Wire and plaster sculpture, Clay, and Recycled Art. Each project will have a research day in which students work together to find good resources, facts, and websites. Students will become experts in the backgrounds and materials as they are creating their projects. Final Presentations will be chosen based on this information! There is a chance we will present one of the units, but possibly all three!
Each project will run about 5-7 class periods (work times may be adjusted according to the teachers observation). Students will participate in a self-evaluation of their work, a class evaluation (where noted), and a final evaluation from the teacher.
Your potential projects will be as follows (time permitted):
Wire and Plaster Sculpture
Wire sculpture: Using all wire, create a subject such as an animal, object, or person. This subject must be recognizable!
Contemporary Sculpture: Students will discuss what contemporary sculpture means, and create their own sculpture using wire, plaster, and paint.
Action Figure: Create a person using movement out of wire, paper mache, and paint. This person must show some sort of recognizable movement (self evaluation)!
Carving a Free Form Sculpture: This project has you pour your own plaster block and carve out of it after it has set. Students will
Clay Creations: Create your own creature. This creature can be fantasy, cartoon-like, or a possibility of being real (Duck-Billed Platypus, Jackalope). Build this creature from clay. This creature must be 3 Dimensional, and at least 6 inches in height. Acrylic paint will finalize these projects (self evaluation). Creativity is a must!!!
Ceramics: Create a coil pot, slab pot, pinch pot, and press mold pot using the techniques demonstrated. Be creative!
Wheel Pottery: Learn to use the wheel! Learn centering, shaping, and molding of a clay vessel on the wheel.
Recycled Art
Recycled Sculpture: Recreate a functional or aesthetically beautiful project out of recyclable objects! Materials will be cans, cardboard boxes, milk jugs, glass jars. will bring in materials, or feel free to bring your own!
Junk sculpture: Go hunting for treasure! Find left over junk out of the garage, janitor’s closet, or anywhere! Build some sort of contemporary sculpture that has a new creative twist on this old junk!
Duct Tape Attire: Using your creative nature, create some sort of functional object out of Duct Tape. This can be clothing, an item that you would carry with you, or something that is used on a daily basis. This item needs to be completely made out of duct tape and scrap objects! No using the same object and putting duct tape over it (class evaluation)!
Papermaking: Using a molding by pressing or casting by pressing, and create your own paper sculpture. Paint and mount onto a background or base, paint, and present.
PowerPoint Presentation - You will choose one great artist. This great artist can be well-known, obscure, or local! You will do research on your own time about this artist, and present the last week of the semester! Your power point needs to include the following:
3 Dimensional Art is a graded course where students are evaluated on their work habits, creativity, and overall effort. This 18 week course will have students explore many different types of 3D art, and go in depth with control and skill building strategies with these materials. Students will have the opportunity to find areas of 3 Dimensional Art that are interesting to them, and also try other materials that they may have little experience.
The students’ responsibilities are as follows:
The projects are split into 3 main categories: Wire and plaster sculpture, Clay, and Recycled Art. Each project will have a research day in which students work together to find good resources, facts, and websites. Students will become experts in the backgrounds and materials as they are creating their projects. Final Presentations will be chosen based on this information! There is a chance we will present one of the units, but possibly all three!
Each project will run about 5-7 class periods (work times may be adjusted according to the teachers observation). Students will participate in a self-evaluation of their work, a class evaluation (where noted), and a final evaluation from the teacher.
Your potential projects will be as follows (time permitted):
Wire and Plaster Sculpture
Wire sculpture: Using all wire, create a subject such as an animal, object, or person. This subject must be recognizable!
Contemporary Sculpture: Students will discuss what contemporary sculpture means, and create their own sculpture using wire, plaster, and paint.
Action Figure: Create a person using movement out of wire, paper mache, and paint. This person must show some sort of recognizable movement (self evaluation)!
Carving a Free Form Sculpture: This project has you pour your own plaster block and carve out of it after it has set. Students will
- pour their plaster into a small-large cardboard container. and wait for it to set up (2-3 days)
- Sketch their sculpture idea onto their brick on all sides.
- Carve out using the tools provided.
Clay Creations: Create your own creature. This creature can be fantasy, cartoon-like, or a possibility of being real (Duck-Billed Platypus, Jackalope). Build this creature from clay. This creature must be 3 Dimensional, and at least 6 inches in height. Acrylic paint will finalize these projects (self evaluation). Creativity is a must!!!
Ceramics: Create a coil pot, slab pot, pinch pot, and press mold pot using the techniques demonstrated. Be creative!
Wheel Pottery: Learn to use the wheel! Learn centering, shaping, and molding of a clay vessel on the wheel.
Recycled Art
Recycled Sculpture: Recreate a functional or aesthetically beautiful project out of recyclable objects! Materials will be cans, cardboard boxes, milk jugs, glass jars. will bring in materials, or feel free to bring your own!
Junk sculpture: Go hunting for treasure! Find left over junk out of the garage, janitor’s closet, or anywhere! Build some sort of contemporary sculpture that has a new creative twist on this old junk!
Duct Tape Attire: Using your creative nature, create some sort of functional object out of Duct Tape. This can be clothing, an item that you would carry with you, or something that is used on a daily basis. This item needs to be completely made out of duct tape and scrap objects! No using the same object and putting duct tape over it (class evaluation)!
Papermaking: Using a molding by pressing or casting by pressing, and create your own paper sculpture. Paint and mount onto a background or base, paint, and present.
PowerPoint Presentation - You will choose one great artist. This great artist can be well-known, obscure, or local! You will do research on your own time about this artist, and present the last week of the semester! Your power point needs to include the following:
- Title Page with the name of the artist and your name.
- Name, birth, death (if deceased), place of birth.
- Family background.
- Artistic background.
- Examples of his/her artwork.
- Fun facts/ interesting things about this artist.
- Why did you choose this artist?
- Is this artist inspiring to your art?
- Resources
2nd Quarter Goals
The students will finish their 3D individual recycling projects and write a summary of how they accomplished the project and what they have learned during its progress.
The students will learn about clay and vocabulary of working with clay. There will be three main areas that they will explore:
1. Reacquainting themselves with the four areas of clay building: Coil, slab, wheel, mold and sculpture
2. The will use a combination of these methods to create an advanced, viable clay vessel that is both decorative and functional.
3. They will create an expressive sculpture of their own selection in clay.
During these nine weeks they will look at the history of pottery, including 'In The News' quizzes, use vocabulary lists to write an essay. By learning the history and methods associated with clay the students will take away an understanding of how these figure into our history and culture.
The students will finish their 3D individual recycling projects and write a summary of how they accomplished the project and what they have learned during its progress.
The students will learn about clay and vocabulary of working with clay. There will be three main areas that they will explore:
1. Reacquainting themselves with the four areas of clay building: Coil, slab, wheel, mold and sculpture
2. The will use a combination of these methods to create an advanced, viable clay vessel that is both decorative and functional.
3. They will create an expressive sculpture of their own selection in clay.
During these nine weeks they will look at the history of pottery, including 'In The News' quizzes, use vocabulary lists to write an essay. By learning the history and methods associated with clay the students will take away an understanding of how these figure into our history and culture.