It is suggested that sandstone makes a good inexpensive medium for sand sculpture. It is available at foundries, or it can be made out of sand. Two formulas for making sandstone are included. (KC)

Contemporary ceramic artist William Daly's stoneware work entitled "Shang Play" is discussed. Art activities to help elementary and secondary students learn about ceramic art are suggested. (RM)

Clay sculpture is difficult to produce because of the requirements of kiln firing. The problems can be overcome by modeling the original manikin head and making a plaster mold, pressing molding slabs of clay into the plaster mold to form the hollow clay armature, and sculpting on the armature. (IS)

Instructions are provided for creating three-dimensional designs by plaster coating honeycomb paper. (SJL)

This art activity involves secondary students in sculpturing netsukes, Japanese carvings dating back to the seventeenth century, from bars of soap. How the activity can be adapted for use with elementary students is also discussed. (RM)

Discusses Picasso's freestanding sculpture Baboon and Young, and art activities for using the sculpture with elementary and secondary students are suggested. A listing of resources is also included. (RM)

Techniques to help art students in grades 3-12 make soap sculptures are described. From a series of wild doodles students choose a single striking shape to render in soap. (RM)

Describes a sculpture project for emotionally disturbed children conducted by a New York artist. (SJL)

Presented is a clay sculpture exercise which has proven to be a quick, successful warm-up and exploratory lesson in using clay to look at and learn about sculpture. The directions are written for children. (KC)

Born in Sweden in 1929, Claes Oldenburg was brought to the United States as an infant and raised in Chicago (Illinois). Oldenburg came of age artistically in the early 1960s with the pop art generation. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated the power of the imagination to transform the everyday environment. This teaching guide gives an…

An activity called "Concrete Sculpture in the Community" proved to be an outstanding educational and mainstreaming opportunity for interaction between handicapped and nonhandicapped students. During the course of the project, the students learned about handicapping conditions and discovered each other's strengths and limitations. (SW)

Described are the methods and materials for an introductory sculpture experience in the Bauhaus foundation program. Bauhaus, a German art school founded in 1918, stressed science and technology as major resources for art and architecture. Hand-held sculptures were created to increase tactile sensitivity and three-dimensional spatial concepts. (KC)

Four teaching strategies are described. Secondary students do pop art sculptural forms emulating aspects of the forms of George Segal and Duane Hanson, do a sculpture of an everyday object, and create their own room-sized works. Elementary students do a sculpture in the style of Marisol. (RM)

There is a natural progression from making single objects to creating sculpture. By modeling the forms of objects like funnels and light bulbs, students become aware of the quality of curves and the edges of angles. Sculptural form in architecture can be understood as consistency in the forms. (CS)

Described is a demonstration to illustrate the storytelling qualities of "clayscapes" and to suggest just one of the innumerable sculptured environments that are possible with clay. Clayscapes are sculptures which are minilandscapes made of clay. (KC)