SCULP 623 001
Blacksmithing: Sculptural Forging
June 7-June 20, 2009
3 credit hours
Instructor: Michael Rossi
$150 Lab Fee
In this intensive class, we will focus on the fundamental techniques of moving ferrous material while hot, with the intent of producing mid-scale sculpture. The forge and anvil will be the primary tools of achieving form. Emphasis will be placed on responding to the history of metalwork and the nature of the material itself. We’ll also be covering different finishing techniques, and the introduction of color to surface.
SCULP 627 001
Conceptual Practices: Beyond Media
July 5-July 18, 2009
3 credit hours
Instructor: Stephanie Brooks
$100 Lab Fee
Artists working at this moment in history are challenged to respond (not react), construct (not deconstruct), align themselves with a theory and practice, and make provocative, engaging work that communicates. In this class we will focus on concept-driven modes of production working through and beyond materiality. Class projects and assignments will ask students to use topics such as mass media, textuality, ego, irony/sincerity, performativity, and context as mediums for production. Students will have the opportunity to work across disciplines including drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, installation, and video.
SCULP 628 001
Metals: Concept and Craft
July 19-August 1, 2009
3 credit hours
Instructor: Robin Mandel
$150 Lab Fee
This course will focus on the particular sculptural possibilities of metal. We’ll explore its unique strengths – what metal can do that no other material can – and we’ll push its limits, making metal do what it is not used to doing, perhaps has never done before. Steel can be welded, cut, rolled, and drilled, but steel is also magnetic, waterproof, and can produce an audible tone when struck. The properties of steel both familiar and strange will be coaxed, twisted, and pressed into the service of sculpture. The course will begin with an intensive skill-building series of shorter projects, and will then progress to more ambitious undertakings. Emphasis will be placed on combining metal with other materials, the fabrication of moving parts, and modular construction.
SCULP 629 001
Site Specific Sculpture: Situating the Object, Situating the Landscape
August 2-August 15, 2009
3 credit hours
Instructor: Kelly Kaczynski
$50 Lab Fee
This class approaches site-specificity within the significance of landscape; its history as image, experience and discourse in art. Along with a unique community of art making practitioners, Ox-Bow provides a unique setting that allows the opportunity to blur the lines between studio production and the landscape that surrounds daily life. Students will experiment with various traditional and non-traditional approaches to object making such as the augmentation of found objects, casting, carving, construction, and meta-traditional craft. Experimenting with materials to create objects and temporary installations, students will be exploring, adapting from, and creating results in the specific landscape of Ox-Bow. Drawing will play a significant role in the class, serving both as plan and as outcome in a sculptural practice. Along with the relationship of site-specificity to landscape, the class will discuss the meanings of artwork situated in a variety of spaces: indoor/outdoor, rural/urban, natural/manicured, institutional space/living space, sacred/profane, actual/virtual. Students will fabricate, install and critique a different project every three days aided by readings, slideshows, demos and drawing workshops. Presentations on historical and contemporary examples will help to contextualize these modes of working. It is strongly recommended that participants have an active studio practice so as to best take advantage of the rigor of this course.
SCULP 630 001
Mold Processes: Modified Multiples
August 2-August 15, 2009
3 credit hours
Instructors: Norwood Viviano and Sarah Lindley
$200 Lab Fee
This joint ceramics and metals sculpture course goes beyond traditional casting techniques to introduce students to a variety of materials and mold-making processes. Student projects and class discussions investigate the meaning of multiples, repeating forms, and material choice. Additional topics for lectures and discussions include the relationship between artifice and nature, site and the monochrome. Students will create and use an assortment of molds to cast several different materials including wax, clay, plaster, bronze, aluminum and non-traditional materials.
SCULP 631 001
Forging the Future: Blacksmithing for Beginners
August 16-August 22, 2009
Non-credit only
Instructor: Kyle Connolly
$100 Lab Fee
A beginning level blacksmith class where students will learn the ancient art of forging hot steel. This course will cover the basic blacksmithing skills of forging, tapering, upsetting, slitting, and scrolls. Opportunity to work on one’s own project will be encouraged. Past projects have included sculptural as well as functional pieces such as kitchen utensils, hooks, and candle holders.