LOUISE NEVELSON
She’s best known for filling abstract boxes with discarded pieces that she found on the New York City streets, giving them “a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.” There’s something so romantic about using found objects. The ability and imagination required to take trash and turn it into art is so inspiring.
Louise Nevelson – Wooden Sculptures
11 Friday Nov 2011
share the spark 
Louise Nevelson stuff is great to do in kindergarten with the wood unit. Also, a great project to talk about positive and negative space. Have the kids create something on a piece of plywood but make sure they keep it to the size of the board and about a few inches high with planned voids that can act like mazes for a mouse, to bring the idea of positive and negative spaces to reality. No towers, etc. to keep it to the theme of Louise Nevelson.
Glue it, dry for a day,
Paint one color preferably only black or white, dry for a day, (parent does touch ups)
Then have the kids “assemble” their works of art all together to make a big mass mural collage and take a photo. Take a picture. Talk about how sometimes art made by one person can be assembled to a larger project made by many.