How to Make Cardboard Assemblage
In our latest Pop-Up Studio, Director of Teaching and Learning Julia Tanner shares how to take inspiration from Louise Nevelson’s sculpture Full Moon (1980) to create a cardboard creation with interesting shape and texture.
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Materials needed
→ Clean corrugated cardboard cut to 10” x 10”, for base
→ Clean corrugated cardboard scraps to create shapes (teachers: Precut some rectangles and triangles of various sizes using a heavy-duty paper cutter.)
→ Wood glue
→ Scissors
→ Acrylic paint in black, white, or gold
→ Brush for paint
Note for the classroom: The project can be done in 50-60 minutes. Spend 25
minutes cutting and arranging shapes, then about 10-15 minutes gluing. Prepare by
looking at images of selected works by Nevelson, including Full Moon.
Louise Nevelson can be found on Google Arts and Culture, the National Gallery of Art,
the Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among other collections.
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