This beginning sculpture class focuses on materials and form as ways of understanding content and experience in sculpture. Equal time will be spent on making, research and discussion. Students will learn how to use a variety of simple techniques and materials for constructing form and affecting space, including found objects, plaster, wood, and basic mold making.
Questions posed and answered through assignments, readings, research, and discussion will include:
What is the relationship between form and content, materials and techniques, maker and object?
How does context, meaning, and purpose affect form?
How does history and experience inform materials?
What is the importance of the artist’s hand?
When does the process of making become more important than the "object" produced?
Questions posed and answered through assignments, readings, research, and discussion will include:
What is the relationship between form and content, materials and techniques, maker and object?
How does context, meaning, and purpose affect form?
How does history and experience inform materials?
What is the importance of the artist’s hand?
When does the process of making become more important than the "object" produced?
- Teacher: Jess Perlitz