Make a Sculpture That…

From April 30 to August 18, 2017, inspired by the PMA’s Summer of Sculpture, The Workshop’s Make a Sculpture That… encouraged you to create sculpture of every variety. 

Visitors spun a wheel for a challenge to create sculpture inspired by a select idea using hand-crafted, magnetic wooden blocks. 

Whether they spent 20 minutes on one elaborate creation or tested out five different challenges, they discovered all the ways in which creating a sculpture requires a different approach from painting on canvas or drawing a picture. Instead of working with the illusion of space, scale, and light, sculptors contend with balance, symmetry, pattern, and shadow in three dimensions instead of two. After experimenting with sculpture, visitors were inspired to return to the galleries to find these ideas at work in three centuries of sculpture.