SCULPTURE 1,2,3
Course #: 112521/212521
Credit: .50
Length: Semester
Fee: $11/Sem
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS: 1: Students will learn how to envision and bring their ideas to life "in-the-round." Students use a variety of tools and apply the following sculpting techniques: additive, subtractive, casting, carving, and construction. Students will sculpt with clay, plaster, wood, wire, and found objects. Coursework will focus on the human form and natural environment, as well as cultural and historical contexts. Students will document ideas, process, problems, and solution in a visual journal.
2 & 3: Students will continue to explore and develop techniques and processes learned in Sculpture 1. Students will also learn to use a wire-feed welder to construct larger outdoor works. Emphasis will be on developing student’s personal style, completing larger scale works, and working more independently. Study will focus on the role of sculpture in society, application of techniques, and a completed body of artwork. Students will document ideas, process, problems, and solution in a visual journal.
SCULPTURE 1
SCULPTURE 2
Wood Carve: Human Figure/Form
Visual Journal Work: Abstraction Sketches
Artists: Arp, Brancusi, Hepworth, Lipschitz, Michelangelo, Moore, Antony Gormely, Jean Louis Corby, Hsu Tung Han
Handouts: Key Sculpture Terms
Slideshows: Wood Works, Pencil Carvings, Looking @ Sculpture, Michelangelo Prezi
Demos & Techniques: Carving Tools, Operating Power tools, Safety, Sand & Stain
Cardboard Form
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans, Maquette Model
Artists: Claes Oldenburg, Chris Gilmour, Lincoln Schatz, Ann Weber, Richard Sweeney, Brian Dettmer, Guy Laramee, Toby Horricks, Daniel Agdag, Shannon Goff, Warren King, Asya Kozina & Dmitriy Kozin, Ernst Haeckel , Josh Gluckstein, Greg Olinjnyk
Oversized Object Cardboard Examples
Slideshows: Cardboard Works & Furniture
Paper Sculpture Art: Blog Site Artists
Demos & Techniques: Construction Techniques & Methods
Wire & Assemblage: Animal or Plant
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans Maquette Model, Contour Portrait
Artists: Calder, Duchamp, Keinholz, Picasso, Man Ray, David Oliveria, Spenser Little
Slideshows: Wire & Found Object Assemblage
Demos & Techniques: Soldering & Contruction Attachments
Unreal Combo
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans, Maquette Model
Artists: Dali, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, Skoglund, de Caires Taylor, Fouts
Slideshows: Unreal Combo (Surrealism)
Demos & Techniques: Paper Cast, Press & Slip Casting, Constructing 2 Piece Molds
Clay: 2D - 3D
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans
Researching 2-D Artist & Collecting Image
Artists: Art for the Blind, Seward Johnson
Slideshows: Historical Paintings
Demos & Techniques: Building Armatures, Clay Properties & Construction, Portrait/Bust Sculpture
Modular Form
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans, Maquette Model
Artists: Le Corbusier, Lewitt, Noguchi, Smith, Sweeney, Zeisel, Martin Tomsky
Handouts: Modular Sculpture
Slideshows: Modular Works
Demos & Techniques: Sculpting w/ Styrafoam
Plaster: Molds & Cast Forms
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans
Maquette Model & Cast
Demos & Techniques: Using Modeling Clay, Flexwax Casting, Mixing & Casting Plaster, Using & Making Molds
Student Choice (weld option)
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans, Maquette Model
Slideshows: Scotch Tape Sculpture
Demos & Techniques: Welding (review procedure & safety), Using ParisCraft Plaster Gauze
SCULPTURE 3
Mobile
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans, Maquette Model
Artists: Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso
Resources: Historical Sculptors
Demos & Techniques: Balanced Construction
Essence of Form
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans, Maquette Model
Artists: Bracusi, Chihuly, Noguchi
Slideshows: Essence of Form
Demos & Techniques: Cement Sculpture
Student Choice (weld option)
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans
Maquette Model
Artists: Claus Oldenberg
Demos & Techniques: Soft Sewn Sculpture, Welding (review procedure & safety)
Student Choice (weld option)
Visual Journal Work: Preliminary Sketches/Plans
Maquette Model
Artists: Joseph Cornell, Marcell Duchamp
Slideshows: David Holmes, History of Assemblage
Demos & Techniques: Box /Frame Building
SPECIAL PROJECTS & EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITIES
Outdoor Installation
Aluminum Pour Workshop 2015-16: Artist-in-Residence Keith Kaziak
See entire project @ http://eastsculptors.blogspot.com/ (Photos courtesy of Peter Vance & video of Colleen Parquette)
Sculpture Garden
Our sculpture garden and outdoor work space is continuously expanding and evolving. Stop by and check it out.
