| Introduction to Sculptural Practices |
1101 (001) |
Kelly F. Kaczynski |
Thurs
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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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.
Prerequisites
Open to Freshmen only.
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Class Number
1712
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Area of Study
Furniture Design, Public Space, Site, Landscape
Location
280 Building Rm 023
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| Introduction to Sculptural Practices |
2001 (001) |
Max Guy |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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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.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be a sophomore or above.
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Class Number
1706
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Location
280 Building Rm 023
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| Introduction to Sculptural Practices |
2001 (002) |
Jeffrey Prokash |
Fri
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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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.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be a sophomore or above.
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Class Number
1714
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Location
280 Building Rm 023
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| Mold Making and Casting: Materials and Processes |
2008 (001) |
Jeffrey Prokash |
Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course builds upon the fundamentals of mold making and casting as a means to replicate, transcribe, and gather material information from the world we inhabit. You will be introduced to a broad range of mold making and casting materials and processes, including multi-part plaster molds and plaster casting, silicone and latex rubbers for molding and casting, ceramic shell and lost wax, alginate and life casting, 3D printed molds, slip casting, plastics, and various organic materials. We will use these materials and processes to investigate and record the surfaces and volumes of objects, bodies, sites, and environments, and translate them into sculptural form. Drawing from a rich history of mold making and casting practices, we will consider how traditional processes, time-tested conventions, and innovative experimentation can inform contemporary sculptural practice while facilitating the production of new work. Through hands-on experimentation, we will examine how mold making can generate meaning, reveal information, and open new possibilities for sculptural inquiry.
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Class Number
1709
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Location
280 Building Rm 030
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| Pattern Making for Sculpture |
2074 (001) |
David Sprecher |
Wed
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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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.
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Class Number
1719
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Area of Study
Product Design
Location
280 Building Rm 127
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| Foundry Basics |
2113 (001) |
Jonathan Lanier |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course introduces the aesthetic, technical, and historical aspects of the casting process as it relates to sculpture. Students learn basic skills in waxworking, investment applications, furnace and kiln operation, metal finishing and chasing, and patination. Lost wax and ceramic shell will be the primary techniques utilized for pattern generation and molding in this course. Students develop these skills through a series of studies that culminate in a final project.
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Class Number
1707
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Location
280 Building Rm 030
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| Sophomore Seminar: Interdisciplinary |
2900 (071) |
Nyeema Morgan |
Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
What are the concerns that drive one's creative practice? How does one set the terms for its future development? Sophomore Seminar offers strategies for students to explore, reflect upon, and connect common themes and interests in the development of an emerging creative practice that will serve as the basis of their ongoing studies at SAIC and beyond. Students will examine historical and contemporary influences and contextualize their work in relation to the diverse art-worlds of the 21st Century. Readings, screenings, and field trips will vary each semester. Presentations by visiting artists and guest speakers will provide the opportunity for students to hear unique perspectives on sustaining a creative practice. One-on-one meetings with faculty will provide students with individualized mentorship throughout the semester. During interdisciplinary critiques, students will explore a variety of formats and tools to analyze work and provide peer feedback. The class mid-term project asks students to imagine a plan for their creative life and devise a self-directed course of study for their time at school. The course concludes with an assignment asking students to develop and document a project or body of work demonstrating how the interplay of ideas, technical skills, and formal concerns evolve through iteration, experimentation and revision.
Prerequisite: Must be a sophomore to enroll.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be a sophomore to enroll.
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Class Number
2039
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Location
280 Building Rm 032
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| Installation Art |
3030 (001) |
Juan Angel Chavez |
Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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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.
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Class Number
1715
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Area of Study
Community and Social Practice, Interaction and Participation, Public Space, Site, Landscape, Public Space, Site, Landscape
Location
280 Building Rm 127
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| Performing Objects |
3039 (001) |
Jefferson Pinder |
Thurs
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Performing Objects is an expansive, interdisciplinary studio course that merges elements of Performance Art, Ritual, Theater, Installation Art, Body Art, Social Practice, and Sculpture. Grounded in object-making, this course invites students to explore the performative potential of their creations through physical interaction and live engagement. We will develop installations that invite audience participation, extend our work beyond the classroom into public spaces, and experiment with new ways to activate objects through performance. Emphasis will be placed on crafting dynamic relationships between performer and audience using material, movement, sound, text, spectacle, scale, and environment.
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Class Number
1717
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Area of Study
Animation
Location
280 Building Rm 127
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| Figure It Out: Sculpture and Bodies |
3056 (001) |
Mindy Rose Schwartz |
Wed
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
The figure in contemporary art has long been debated, but just as painting never died as forecasted so, too, the figure. It has morphed, become cyber, stayed representational, been found in the world and fashioned of any medium, while dissolving the line between it and abstraction, making it permeable and evocative. In this course students will be challenged to redefine the boundaries of traditional sculptural representation using the figure as a catalyst for evoking a range of content. We will consider human and animal bodies broadly, as cultural, historical, and constantly changing entities. Through an examination of diverse approaches related to figurative sculpture, students will be encouraged to engage with a variety of sculptural processes and media (such as assemblage, mold making, modeling, carving, welding, mixed media, fund object) to configure forms, as well as and conceptual frameworks in order to articulate personal and social narratives, and cultural critiques.
Addressing a range of cultures and historical periods, our inquiry will focus on: To what ends has the figure been employed (portraiture, faith, identity, gesture, embodiment, fragment, ritual, allegory, affect)? How does a work refer to without fully representing the figure? Why has it been an enduring subject/form? What are challenges and opportunities does it offer us today? Our inquiry will be guided by readings (Gordon Hall, Elizabeth Grosz, Katarzyna Trzeciak, Elaine Scarry, Sara Ahmed, and others) and viewing/museum visits of such artists as Jaime Isenstein, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Simone Fattal, Sarah Peters, Hew Locke, Rachel Harrison, Nicole Eisenman, Anna Mendieta, Yinka Shonibare, Simone Leigh, Kiki Smith, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Wangechi Mutu, Louise Bourgeois, Thomas Houseago, Kimsooja, David Altmejd, Lee Bul and Cajsa von Zeipel.
Course work includes assignments, readings and in class activities that support the development of three finished projects for critique.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: SCULP 1101 or SCULP 2001
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Class Number
1727
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Area of Study
Gender and Sexuality, Class, Race, Ethnicity
Location
280 Building Rm 015
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| Moldmaking: Replication and Translation |
3057 (001) |
Stephen Reber |
Thurs
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course is designed for students who have prior moldmaking and casting experience. Students investigate in-depth project development, implementing and articulating ideas through class discussions and proposals. This course also aims to offer a deeper understanding of the social, historical, and aesthetic implications of replication. Such subjects as the instability and significance of object/material relationships, and the complex and expansive nature between the authentic, the surrogate, and the copy are explored.
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Class Number
1718
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Location
280 Building Rm 030
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| Twist and Rout |
3060 (001) |
Paul Martin |
Wed
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
The history and techniques of bending and shaping wood are explored, from the stage coach wheel to the sculptures of Martin Puryear, from the cambered truss to the violin. Projects include a variety of practices such as laminate bending, form fashioning, steam bending, and vacuum pressing.
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Class Number
1711
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Area of Study
Furniture Design
Location
280 Building Rm 023
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| Writing Sculpture: Building Language |
3061 (001) |
David Sprecher |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Writing Sculpture: Building Language exists where the material dimension of language meets the literary potential of objects. The words that shape artworks can augment, deform, rescale, and align them with narratives that radically shift their performance. Conversely, language can gain weight and be stretched, folded, carved, fractured and rebuilt to echo rather than explicate sculptures. How can poems and exhibitions structurally inform each other? How can creative writing help us understand what our work wants to be? Through the lens of embodied cognition, the hypothesis that thinking is a physical act anchored to our sensory-motor experiences and interactions with our environment, we will leverage the powerful collusion between words, actions, and objects. We will explore forms of writing, object-making, performance and installation that open sculpture to the wilds of narrative imagination.
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Class Number
2385
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Area of Study
Narrative, Theory
Location
280 Building Rm 015
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| Metalworks |
3063 (001) |
Dan Price |
Tues
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Metalworks is a let's-get-to-basics class for working with steel. Join the class to learn basic metal fabrication, including: cutting, forming, forging, welding and finishing. This class will guide you as you build your projects in steel. You'll learn about structural systems and histories relevant to art and design with an emphasis on techniques and methodologies relevant to metalwork. You will integrate your learning to produce a set of finished works using historic and contemporary technologies. If it's metal, It's here. Designing, Fabricating, Forging, Finishing. Make it in metal.
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Class Number
1724
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Area of Study
Digital Fabrication
Location
280 Building Rm 127
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| Hybrid Objects |
3113 (001) |
Andrew Bertholf |
Tues, Tues
3:30 PM - 9:15 PM, 3:30 PM - 9:15 PM
In Person
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Description
This studio course explores the interconnected nature of our physical and digital realities and their implications as technical, physical, and conceptual tools for understanding and presenting spatial ideas. This course teaches students to integrate the digital and the analog through process demonstrations including 3D modeling, 3D scanning, digital visualization, 3D printing, CNC output, mold making, pattern making, as well as metal and wood fabrication. This course covers planar and spatial construction methodologies.
This course engages themes of identity and place in sculpture and presents the idea that these concepts are expressed uniquely via this hybrid process. However, students in this course are free to choose the content of their own work. Practical application of technical demonstrations build on lectures and discussions considering works by Tauba Auerbach, Macarthur Freeman, The Long Now Foundation, Charles Ray, Spurse, Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi), Amanda Williams, and Wim Delvoye among others. Students will work individually to create 3 artworks to be presented in a final critique. Students will share these artworks in-process in 2 or 3 informal critiques. Each student will also complete a short written research project.
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Class Number
1716
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Location
280 Building Rm 127A, 280 Building Rm 127
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| Foundry: Industrial Morphologies |
3115 (001) |
Julie A. Nagle |
Wed
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Advances in metallurgy and foundry practices provided the spark for the Industrial Revolution that transformed the world. In this intermediate level metal casting course, students explore how technological developments, material innovations, principles of mass production and distribution, and the mechanization of work have influenced the shape of contemporary social, economic, and political structures. While emphasis is placed on foundry techniques in this course, a variety of industrial materials and processes are explored including computer scanning, data manipulation and rapid-prototyping technologies. Students learn to access industrial services via the internet and off-campus field trips.
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Class Number
1713
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Area of Study
Product Design
Location
280 Building Rm 030
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| Advanced Sculpture: Interdisciplinary Projects |
4002 (001) |
Juan Angel Chavez |
Fri
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This advanced, interdisciplinary course provides a generative space for developing and understanding creative projects through the discourse of the field of Sculpture. Students in this course come together from various departments to enrich the content of their work through critique and conversation with Sculpture faculty and other advanced level students from across the school. Weekly readings inform the development of self-directed creative projects which form the basis for discussion and may form the basis for a thesis body of work.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 3 credits SCULP 2000 or SCULP 3000-level; open to Juniors and Seniors only.
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Class Number
1723
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Location
280 Building Rm 015
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| Knowledge Lab: Regenerative Practices |
4018 (001) |
Corey William Hagelberg |
Thurs
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Around the globe and across disciplines, people are employing regenerative practices to address climate change, food insecurity, loss of biodiversity, the fracturing of community bonds, and social injustices. Reasserting our connections to ecological and social systems is vital to address these key issues and essential for our personal well-being. Regenerative practices support and restore local ecosystems, contribute to local climate resiliency, and fortify community ties. Through object-making, collaboration, and performance, this course will explore the relationship between the principles of regenerative thinking and contemporary art practices as we develop our own critical framework. We will be collectively innovating and together will be guided by actions, lectures, and readings. Our work will be informed by a broad range of visiting artists, ecologists, anthropologists, and interdisciplinary practitioners to present lectures and guided workshops. Our visitors supplement course content to present practices and philosophies that can help us consider our relationship to each other, the world around us, and to the past and future.
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Class Number
1710
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Credits
3
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Department
Sculpture
Area of Study
Community & Social Engagement, Art and Science, Sustainable Design
Location
280 Building Rm 010
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| Advanced Sculptural Practices Studio |
4020 (001) |
Stephen Reber, Jefferson Pinder |
Tues, Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course provides a forum for in depth critiques and exploration of students' individual directions within the context of sculptural practice. Both technical and conceptual input will be given on a tutorial basis. Group discussions, readings, slide/video presentations, field trips and visiting lecturers may augment this class. Enrolled students will be assigned a studio space in the Columbus building. A maximum of 15 students will be admitted per semester. IMPORTANT: This course requires instructor consent. Please do not email the instructor directly. Instead, fill out the form found at this link, https://tinyurl.com/yjpm32ww, to submit your portfolio and application before the deadline.
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Class Number
1708
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Credits
6
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Department
Sculpture
Location
280 Building Rm 032, 280 Building Rm 032
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| Advanced Sculptural Practices Studio |
4020 (001) |
Stephen Reber, Jefferson Pinder |
Tues, Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course provides a forum for in depth critiques and exploration of students' individual directions within the context of sculptural practice. Both technical and conceptual input will be given on a tutorial basis. Group discussions, readings, slide/video presentations, field trips and visiting lecturers may augment this class. Enrolled students will be assigned a studio space in the Columbus building. A maximum of 15 students will be admitted per semester. IMPORTANT: This course requires instructor consent. Please do not email the instructor directly. Instead, fill out the form found at this link, https://tinyurl.com/yjpm32ww, to submit your portfolio and application before the deadline.
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Class Number
1708
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Credits
6
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Department
Sculpture
Location
280 Building Rm 032, 280 Building Rm 032
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