Street Art Assignment: Packing Tape Sculpture

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Unit 3: Packing Tape Sculpture Assignment

We will be making our own "street art" for a public space. We will be working with packing tape to make sculptures, similar to street artist Mark Jenkins.

Scissors

Watch the video above to see how to cast an object using packing tape.

See some of Mark Jenkins' work in the video on the left, or look at the links below. Pay special attention to his packing tape sculptures; that is what we will be doing in class.

Mark Jenkins' Street Art

Mark Jenkins' Art in Nature

This video shows how a high school class have used this technique to construct "street art" sculptures to display in their school.