Older Children

The downloadable guides listed below are intended for older children to use with the guidance of an adult. By studying individual works of art, they explore themes such as biomorphic and geometric abstraction, appropriation, and symbolism.

Jim Dine Guide for Older Children
Subject: Appropriating objects
Activity: Creating a collage of your life
Materials: Magazines, small objects, glue, paper
Vocabulary: Appropriation, bronze, depict

Mark di Suvero Guide for Older Children
Subject: Balance
Activity: Creating a sculpture that balances
Materials: Acrylic paint (optional), chopsticks, pencils, or Popsicle sticks; adhesive tape, glue, string, or twist ties
Vocabulary: Angle, balance, crane, lift, vertical

Raoul Hague Guide for Older Children
Subject: Carving methods
Activity: Carve into a piece of wood
Materials: A piece of wood, a chisel, a hammer
Vocabulary: Biomorphic abstraction, direct carve

Seymour Lipton Guide for Older Children
Subject: Anthropomorphic forms
Activity: Create a sculpture using anthropomorphic forms
Materials: Aluminum foil, double-stick tape, scissors
Vocabulary: Anthropomorphic, biomorphic abstraction, geometric abstraction, Monel metal, nickel-silver

Beverly Pepper Guide for Older Children
Subject: Geometric abstraction
Activity: Making a drawing using vertical and horizontal lines
Materials: Paper, pencil, a ruler
Vocabulary: Geometric abstraction, horizontal, iron, vertical

Joel Perlman Guide for Older Children
Subject: Geometric abstraction
Activity: Creating a sculpture that uses a frame
Materials: Glue and different shapes or sizes of cardboard or balsa wood
Vocabulary: Diagonal, geometric abstraction, horizontal, steel, vertical

Antoine Pevsner Guide for Older Children
Subject: Symbols
Activity: Making a symbolic, geometric image
Materials: Pencil, paper, ruler
Vocabulary: Bronze, diagonal, geometric abstraction, symbol

Ursula von Rydingsvard Guide for Older Children
Subject: Building up volume
Activity: Making a sculpture by building
Materials: Cardboard or tongue depressors, chisel and/or sandpaper, colored chalk
Vocabulary: Biomorphic abstraction, graphite powder, western red cedar