Shaping: Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture

This two-quarter program is for advanced visual arts students who are interested in and prepared for focused work in sculpture.  We will make sculpture using additive and subtractive methods and address placement of the work in specific environments.  We will explore the character of sculpture as object and experience, the environmental impacts of material, process and site choices, the human body as generator of form and proportion, and the challenge of developing a personal body of work.

Some of our animating questions: In a world filled with stuff and increasingly given over to abstractions, what does it mean to be a maker of things?  How does sculpture engage space and time?  How does the human body relate to sculptural form, scale and meaning?  How can sculptural objects interact to become a sculptural experience?  What is the role and responsibility of the sculptor working in the environment and in community?  How does studio work inform a sculptor's work in other contexts? 

Some of our program goals: Understanding and mastery of selected materials and processes in making sculpture, experience in conceiving and constructing works, careful responses to site, environmental and community contexts, strongly three dimensional expression, and a well informed, reasoned, and rigorous approach to art making.

For an expanded description of program activities, projects, readings and weekly calendar, see the attached Syllabus.

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