A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
SAIC faculty member Juan Angel Chavez, a person with medium skin tone and dark hair, stands in front of a studio with artwork.

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Juan Angel Chavez

Assistant Professor, Adjunct

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Bio

Exhibitions: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; FIGGE Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa; Krennart Museum, Champaign/Urbana, Illinois; Chicago Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois; MASSART, Boston, MA; University of Texas, San Antonio, TX; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Linda Warren Projects, Chicago; Matthew Marks Gallery, NY, NY; Margaret Thatcher Projects, NY, NY. Community Public Art projects: Marquette Park Field House, Chicago; Iglesia San Isidro Mosaics, Chihuahua, Mexico. Commissions: Chicago Sun-Times 50th Anniversary Mural; Uprise Skateboard Shop, Chicago. Bibliography: Hoy, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader. Collections: Eaton Corporation, Cleveland Ohio; Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago. Awards: Richard H. Driehaus Individual Artist Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in NY, NY; Artadia Individual Artist Award, NY, NY and 3Arts, Chicago; Joan Mitchell Individual Artist Award, NY, NY. 

Courses

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Description

This course is an introduction to the materials, methods, and concepts of sculpture. We will investigate making in relation to material, time and space. We will consider aspects of sculpture such as meaning, scale, process, social engagement, ephemera and site; and explore the formal properties and expressive potential of materials including mold making and casting, wood, metal and experimental media. We will combine the use of materials and methods with ideas that reflect the history of contemporary sculpture. Demonstrations and authorizations will provide students with experience and technical proficiency in sculptural production while readings and slide lectures venture into the critical discourses of sculpture.

Class Number

1781

Credits

3

Description

This course is an introduction to the materials, methods, and concepts of sculpture. We will investigate making in relation to material, time and space. We will consider aspects of sculpture such as meaning, scale, process, social engagement, ephemera and site; and explore the formal properties and expressive potential of materials including mold making and casting, wood, metal and experimental media. We will combine the use of materials and methods with ideas that reflect the history of contemporary sculpture. Demonstrations and authorizations will provide students with experience and technical proficiency in sculptural production while readings and slide lectures venture into the critical discourses of sculpture.

Class Number

1700

Credits

3

Description

Patternmaking is at the heart of metalworking, woodworking, fashion, architecture and many other disciplines. Why? Because so many materials are available in sheet form. Students in this course will investigate a range of processes by which flat sheet materials like paper, wood, metal, fabric, vinyl, and plastic can be used to make volumetric, three-dimensional forms. Patternmaking for Sculpture will teach the student digital and analogue methods of designing, cutting, and assembling 3D work. Practical strategies as well as contemporary industrial use and the history of patternmaking will be explored to give each student a range of options for making their own work, whether it be art or design.

Class Number

1786

Credits

3

Description

This course is a structural and poststructural investigation of sculptural site activation. The students explore the theory and practice of how work gets contextualized and redefined through its placement within a larger social, political, and economic sphere of meaning. Students investigate options and determinants operative in both indoor and outdoor sites, installations, and environments. Although the focus of the class is contemporary, topics of discussion range from Rodin's Burghers of Calais to the public projections of Krzysztof Wodiczko. An indoor space is available for student use and cooperative interaction is encouraged. Prerequisite: intermediate level work in any media or consent of instructor.

Class Number

1709

Credits

3