SCULPTURE 2 continues the development of skills and dialogue generated in the 3D Visual Dynamics and Sculpture 1 courses but is also open to Juniors and Seniors in any program. Techniques and actions relating to trajectories of sculpture and the history of making are more intensively investigated through a series of projects designed to engage students in a deepened relationship to materials and methods. Students explore visual, formal and conceptual issues with a heightened level of experimentation and creative ambition. Emphasis will be on the concept, content, and critical dialogue surrounding the work, advancing the idea of sculpture as an intellectual as well as material pursuit. Students will engage with the world around them, and participate in a larger social dialogue. Artist statements and photo documentation will be required, as students begin moving toward an individualized practice shaped around sustained curiosity and personal inquiry.

Sculpture : WASTELAND will explore a sculptural practice rooted in a conscious engagement with our environment at large. As material artists, we will look at our carbon footprint, inventive solutions, recycled and found materials, toxic materials and processes, the chemical composition of materials and their impact to our fragile ecosystem, and a much larger exploration of WASTE as it relates to our social, emotional, psychological, biological and spiritual lives. In addition to field trips, a tour of Recology, and visiting scholars, there will also be readings assigned, with discussions to follow.

Think of this class as a laboratory in which you will expand your preconceived notions of ‘sculpture’.

This semester, Scupture 2: Wasteland will be part of an exciting program at CCA which funds ‘scientists’ to come into the classroom and co-teach. Last year students in this program explored ‘Water’. This year I am excited to announce that we will explore the issue of WASTE (in the expanded field!). You will have the opportunity to be part of a larger interdisciplinary Exhibition at the Galleries on Broadway/College Ave. in which a handful of classes will be responding to ‘WASTE’. Invention and imagination on your part are required as is your ability to take initiative in beginning to uncover those areas of exploration that most deeply impact you and capture your imagination.