ART 283 - Sculpture in the Ever-Expanding Field

No longer restricted to orthodoxies of traditional methods, materials, and modes of display, the “expanded field” of sculpture is a broad artistic framework, encompassing a variety of forms and media-including installation, collaboration, performance, appropriation, multi-sensory experience, environments, social practice, and more. Accordingly, this course approaches sculpture as a situated practice open to an expansive and changing definition of its own structures and limits. Students will learn studio techniques and making processes (e.g. textiles and metal fabrication, etc.) while also working with experimental assemblages of materials, and ideas of critical craft, artistic research, and performance that link activities of the art studio to broader social spheres and intellectual discourses. Course readings and discussions will engage with theory and contemporary art history toward the development of artworks that are critically engaged, process-based, and responsive to site/situation.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Instructional Method: Studio
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Repeatable for Credit: May be taken 2 times for credit.
Notes: Enrollment limited to 15. Registration priority is given to intended / declared art majors.
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a non-English language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a non-English language, or works of the visual or performing arts).