The old guard artists include Dan Flavin, who made sculpture with fluorescent tubes of various colors.
Twice a week for three hours, the children sang songs, made sculpture with homemade play dough and, when they had trouble expressing themselves, used a box that had faces with different emotions pasted on each side to help articulate things like "I feel frustrated".
At the same time, Mr. Gibson was making sculptures with mannequins and African masks.
Even the art world has co-opted the sweet, with artists busy painting, photographing and making sculptures with it.
Ms. Booker, 50, makes sculptures with recycled car tires, objects closely associated with American identity and industry.
Making drawings with stocks, making sculpture with cryptocurrency.
Similarly shy of the limelight is the Dutch artist Stanley Brouwn, who in the 1960s walked the streets of Amsterdam asking strangers to draw him directional maps and, obsessed with measurement, made sculptures that precisely matched his own height.
He stopped painting and started making sculptures, experimenting with many materials.
Auguste Rodin made sculpture modern by wrestling with its past.
Largely unknown in the West, Kudo (1935-90) made sculpture whose fusion of the grotesque with color and craft resonates with Minimalist dissenters of the 1960s like Lucas Samaras, Paul Thek and Yayoi Kusama.
