Springing into Installation

For our final project, students chose a site (both indoors and out) to interact with. There were no limits of scale, material, or place, except that it had to be within a 5 minute walk of Harder Hall. A myriad of processes and materials were used to create cohesive site-specific installations.

Steel Works!

For the third Intro to Sculpture project, we explored the possibilities inherent in steel. The tensile strength and malleability of steel make it a vital sculptural material. Students were expected to explore the concept of personal space in sculptural form. As in the mold making project, using mixed media was encouraged.

Alternative Mold Making

      For the second project in Intro to Sculpture this spring, students were introduced to the mold making process. Instead of working in metal, they were expected to work with alternative materials such as soap, candy, plaster, and beeswax, as well as any other material necessary to complete their sculptures.

Intro to Sculpture, Wood Style

This spring's Intro to Sculpture class dug into traditional and non-traditional methods of sculpture making. Themes discussed throughout the semester include paying attention to how materials connect to one another, how to bring idea into form, and exposure to new processes and ways of making. Students investigated sculptural concepts through four projects. The first project was focused on wood. Students had to make a sculpture larger than 6 feet in one dimension with 5 or more joins in the wood. We went to Eddy's Lumber and picked up two truck loads of local rough-cut ash, maple, cherry, walnut, and oak and went hog wild in the wood shop.