Classroom Activity Art Starters: Louise Bourgeois Part of Art Tales for Pre-K Louise Bourgeois made many sculptures of spiders. Some are just a few inches tall (as big as an apple) and some are over thirty feet tall (as big as a building). To the artist, the spider—patient and protective—was a symbol for her mother. Louise Bourgeois, Spider , 1996, cast 1997, bronze with silver nitrate patina, Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 1997.136.1 Grade Level Pre-K–Kindergarten Subject