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"When you put together things that other
people have thrown out, you’re really
bringing them to life – a spiritual life that
surpasses the life for which they were
originally created."
                          Louise Nevelson
Assemblage Art:
Transforming Trash into Treasure

                    By Marie Max

            For students grade levels 9-12
Objectives
• Select recycled items to produce a theme or
  narration.

• Design a sculpture and base.

• Construct and assemble sculpture and base.

• Create a narrative assemblage sculpture.
Motivation
• Re-invent functions of trash
• Social, cultural, and environmental
  awareness
• three-dimensional format
• curiosity for investigating an
  explanation.
Louis Nevelson
Isaiah Zagar
Phoebe Washburn
Essential Questions

• How can the term 'trash' be reinvented to
  define 'treasure' when it is recycled into an art
  piece?
• Can assemblage art successfully be an
  aesthetic narrative of society, personality, or
  culture?
• How?
Transforming Trash in to Treasure
Gather discarded objects.

What might they have been used for?
What were the objects were symbolic of?

Design a layout and base support:
think about layers, or relief surfaces.

Assemble: glue, found wire, etc.

Attach sculpture to base.
Evaluation
•Group critique
•Written responses:

  •What was the benefit of using discarded materials?

  •How did the objects transform?

  •How do the individual objects function as a whole?

  •What Art Elements were incorporated?

  •Do you feel successful in your transformation?

  •Why?

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Transforming Trash Into Treasure

  • 1. "When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created." Louise Nevelson
  • 2. Assemblage Art: Transforming Trash into Treasure By Marie Max For students grade levels 9-12
  • 3. Objectives • Select recycled items to produce a theme or narration. • Design a sculpture and base. • Construct and assemble sculpture and base. • Create a narrative assemblage sculpture.
  • 4. Motivation • Re-invent functions of trash • Social, cultural, and environmental awareness • three-dimensional format • curiosity for investigating an explanation.
  • 8. Essential Questions • How can the term 'trash' be reinvented to define 'treasure' when it is recycled into an art piece? • Can assemblage art successfully be an aesthetic narrative of society, personality, or culture? • How?
  • 9. Transforming Trash in to Treasure Gather discarded objects. What might they have been used for? What were the objects were symbolic of? Design a layout and base support: think about layers, or relief surfaces. Assemble: glue, found wire, etc. Attach sculpture to base.
  • 10. Evaluation •Group critique •Written responses: •What was the benefit of using discarded materials? •How did the objects transform? •How do the individual objects function as a whole? •What Art Elements were incorporated? •Do you feel successful in your transformation? •Why?

Editor's Notes

  1. Inexpensive, environmentally beneficial, learning strategies for creating a narrative, design creativity