This semester's students were able to engage in a new sculpture project! First students were introduced to the street artist, Mark Jenkins, and learned about his sculptures and how they are meant to trick the viewer into thinking they are real.
Then the students were placed into groups and they had to figure out a way to trick the viewer with their human sculptures in the school some way.
Then started the casting part of the project! Each group decided on a model and then the other group members would wrap the model in packaging tape by wrapping one layer sticky side up and then two layers sticky side down. After carefully cutting the casted body part off the model the group had to simply tape the parts back together and voila! They had a tape casted human being.
The final step of this project included the students dressing up their tape sculptures and displaying them within the school building while we critiqued them. They sure did scare some teachers!
