Students work with a variety of metals and tools. Processes emphasized include folding, seaming, roll forming, cold connections, metal pattern drafting, and metal forming to explore their ideas for steel, galvanized, or other metals. Students are advised to bring objects they desire to cast. This course introduces the basic techniques of subtractive sculpture. Students experiment with carving all media, permanent and impermanent.
Much work is done outdoors in the sculpture courtyards.
This course introduces basic concepts and forms through the constructive process of assemblage, using traditional and nontraditional materials and techniques. 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. The primary focus is on lost wax and ceramic shell techniques. Students develop these skills through a series of studies that culminate in a final project.