It’s practicum season, which means the opportunity to test out a lesson plan in a structured environment with expert guidance and supervision! This lesson will be taught to elementary kids who typically use paper in various forms for their projects, so I’d like to provide them with a more sculptural experience, or at least something that uses a unique material. While being enrolled in an Art Metals class at Stout, I’m tempted to try to bring some of that experience to the kids at my practicum experience.
The idea that I want to go forward with is a project using copper plating/foil/tooling and wooden tools to mark and emboss a design. In essence, this creates a kind of relief sculpture, which is a great subject for showcasing interesting examples across history. To my mind, relief sculptures are some of the oldest examples of art that we have, and can be found across virtually every culture. Typically, we find reliefs of things that people found important and wanted to preserve. I’d like to carry this into the lesson, and have the students engrave something that is important to them, or something that they would like to celebrate and preserve in the more permanent medium of metal.
What makes this difficult is that such a prompt would be difficult enough to plan and draw for an elementary student using a paper and pencil, and that marking a sheet of metal is significantly more difficult. In light of that limitation, I’m opting towards something more simple and abstract, like using unique letters to form their favorite nickname.
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