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.

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