ARTS 140 is an introduction to visual thinking in three dimensional form and space. Its objectives are to teach concepts and develop some of the many skills used in conceiving and making sculpture. A tour of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden initiates the semester and provides a sample of 19th and 20th century sculpture as a context for the work to be done in the studio. Sculpture offers students the opportunity to exercise there sensibilities and objectify their ideas as three dimensional form.
Students work in traditional and contemporary materials and methods.
Sculpture 1,the semester, is divided between three projects. A complementary small, outside-class construction, will be assigned at the same time. The third sculpture assignment is to be modeled in clay and is therefore made by the additive process. This clay model will be cast in plaster from a waste mold and may be finished in a faux-bronze patina. Each assignment will begin with a lecture and discussion, sometimes with illustrative slides, describing the use of tools and materials and their potential for generating new forms and stimulating ideas.