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Course Description
Summary
How do I begin? What's happening already鈥e are the studio.
This course is designed to bring together creative minds who feel the need to take the next steps into understanding how to create an idea three dimensionally. How do I take an abstract idea and begin to translate it into an object or installation. 鈥淏ut this is absurd, and doesn鈥檛 make any sense to anyone else.鈥 These thoughts commonly are where someone gets hit in the gut, because it exudes instinct. We can connect on these levels. This 4000 level sculpture class is directed to the self motivated adaptive thinker who wants to learn how to connect more with complex methods of creation.
The class will participate in presentations that will help exercise uninhibited explorations into personal histories, simultaneously, they will engage in critical inquiry and research, using a central theme as a springboard for developing a unique artistic vision.
Throughout the term, students will balance technical instruction with studio experimentations as well as understand the community responsibilities for maintaining a studio within VAPA. There will be regular discussions, critiques, and readings that will make up the content in which will be evaluated. Each student will begin to learn how to work collectively as well as understand the principles inherent in creative risk-taking. The course culminates in a public thematic exhibition where students will showcase their fully realized works, integrating their technical achievements and conceptual explorations into a class collective show.
Learning Outcomes
- 1. Develop advanced capacities with the equipment for fabrication in analog and digital formats.
2. Develop methods of construction involving wood, metal, plastics, plaster, and textiles..
3. Gain fluency in advanced aesthetics of three dimensional form.
4.. Develop further knowledge of the histories of sculptural practices up to the contemporary moment, in its diversity of cultural perspectives and identities.
Prerequisites
Requires students to have taken at least two studio courses in Visual Arts, and should email faculty for enrollment.
Please contact the faculty member : jumphlett@bennington.edu