How high school students used foam to create three-dimensional forms on a large scale is described. The students made sculptures that they wore in a Mardi-Gras celebration. (RM)

Outlines a personalized sculpture project for high school students. (SJL)

Describes a high school art activity in creating inflatable sculptures. (SJL)

Outlines a high school sculpture project using plaster and a vacuum forming machine. (SJL)

Describes student sculptures made from discarded materials, such as wire, tubing, and salt blocks. (SJL)

Briefly outlines three sculpture projects for secondary students, two using papier mache, one using wood. (SJL)

Instructions, with illustrations, are provided for three exercises in clay sculpture: press mold, figure sculpture, and composite sculpture. (SJL)

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)

Described is a Ceramic Clayathon, the purpose of which was to inspire and infuse spirit through the cross-fertilization of ideas. Four high schools were involved and events included no-handed-clay, tallest clay form, crazy coil, etc. Pictures of winning entries are included. (KC)

Junior high school students studied the cultural uses, symbolic meanings, and general physical forms of tombs and tombstones and then used basic slab building techniques to construct large clay grave markers. (RM)

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)