Art Focus®: Making

Shape Stacks: Totems

Grades K-2 and 3-5

Overview: Students create a mixed media sculpture featuring shapes (abstract or representational) in a vertical formation so as to convey a personal totem.

Essential Skills: Learn about Shape & Size Hierarchy. Reflect a theme with abstract and representational shapes. Create a free standing construction with emphasis on balance.

Vocabulary + Terms: Totem, Shape/Size Hierarchy, Abstract, Representational

Artist Inspiration: Guy Zagursky, Russ Vogt, Michael Hough