A study of elements and principles of 3-dimentional design and their applications, with emphasis on form in space, design systems, and contemporary art concepts. Experimentation in both natural and synthetic material. Class meets six hours per week. In-class by faculty and community supervisor. In past years, students have worked in groups with at-risk teens living in foster homes to help them better understand artists of color and their work.
Students also help teens create sculptures based on the artists' work they studied.
These sculptures are now bringing beauty to foster homes throughout Los Angeles. Class attendance, evaluation by professor and Radin Scholar, reflective writings, reflective painting assigment. Students work with middle school children in an economically depressed section of the Valley in order to sharpen skills learned in class while providing arts programming to an under-funded school. A series of watercolor workshops led by CSUN students are based directly on material covered in class. Service eliminates the need for written testing which is normally a requirement for this class.