Ms.

Madison Foster Vocab

Texture (textura): the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or

Textural substance

3-Dimensional (tridimensional): having height, length, and width

Sculptures Sculpture (escultura): a 3D object made out of material

(Esculturas con textura) Constraint (restricción): limitation or restriction

Material and Sense Constraint

Arlene
Shechet
What are Constraints?
(restricciónes)

Material Sense Relevant Artists Felice Tagliaferri

1 Only being able to use

one or a few types of
2 Being limited to smell,
touch, taste, sight or These artists use constraints in their work.
Kameelah Janan
Rasheed
material is a constraint. sound, is a constraint. Material, time, sense, and prompt are all
Example: You can only Example: Make a piece used.
use paper to make a hat of work that makes
sound.
Time Prompt
3 Being timed to do
something is a
4 A very specific prompt
can be a constraint.
constraint. Example: Make a self Josephine
Example: You have 5 portrait without actually Halvorson
minutes to draw a purple drawing yourself.
giraffe with 2 heads.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed Josephine Halvorson
Material/ Prompt Constraint: Words and Text
Time Constraint
● Rasheed uses language and words in her work ● Halvorson is an artist who uses sculpture and printmaking but is
● She collects different books, letters, and texts and copies mostly known for her paintings
words and uses them in her art ● She does realist paintings and focuses mostly on natural settings
● Rasheed says that using words in her art helps her make or things she observes
sense of their meanings ● She gives herself 1 day to start and finish each canvas she does

Felice Tagliaferri Arlene Shechet

Sense Constraint Texture
● Tagliaferri is an Italian sculptor who is blind ● Shechet is an artist based in New York that uses
● At museums people usually aren’t allowed to touch the art different mediums in her sculptures
which is the way he interacts with art so he wanted to ● She explores different shapes, sizes and textures in
make sculptures that people can touch her sculptures
● She showcases the different textures of each material
by combining them in a thoughtful way in her
sculptures
 Objective:
So What? Materials:

★ Playdough
Create a sculpture that
showcases different
★ Pipe cleaners textures out of only
We are going to be using a material
★ Beads these materials.
and sense constraint to create textural
sculptures

How can we make art that

can be interacted with
without sight?
Let’s Get
Started!