Sculpture and Design:

Transformations

We go that extra dimension.

In Beginning Sculpture and Design, students become familiar with the fundamental skills of art-making, develop visual literacy and practice artistic thinking.

The Advanced Sculpture and Design students will have the unique opportunity to explore a variety of advanced sculptural media and techniques including but not limited to throwing on the wheel, digital design, mold-making, plaster casting and advanced woodworking.

Advanced Sculpture and Design

Exquisite Corpse creations

Artists: Rhys B, Jack H, Sani K, Aarya S

These ceramic Exquisite Corpse figures were inspired by a famous Surrealist game. From MoMA’s website:

A game in which each participant takes turns writing or drawing on a sheet of paper, folding it to conceal his or her contribution, and then passing it to the next player for a further contribution. The game gained popularity in artistic circles during the 1920s when it was adopted as a technique by artists of the Surrealist movement to generate collaborative compositions.

Our creations were centered around the students’ first-ever attempt at creating a thrown vessel on the pottery wheel. The wheel-thrown component forms the torso and is sized so that the parts are all interchangeable.

Beginning Sculpture and Design

Three ceramic projects

The First Year students started with clay this semester and have completed Four projects so far:

 Patterned Trays inspired by Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Kuba patterns, Trompe l’oeil Food made using ceramic and Slab-built ceramic birdhouses.

Ceramic Face Jugs made as pinch pots

These works are inspired by a distinctive type of ceramic face vessel first appeared in the American South in the mid-1800s. Jugs such as these are attributed to a small number of black slaves working as potters in the Edgefield District of South Carolina.

Artists: Laurel M, max d, Ashley m, Sophia j

Our Patterned Trays were inspired by Art Deco and Art Nouveau - two late 19th and early 20th century western art movements and Kuba patterns created in the 17th-19th century in Central Africa.

Artists: Lauren H, Olivia G

Trompe L’oeil, French meaning to fool or deceive the eye, is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions and is used most commonly in painting. We created actual 3 dimensionalTrompe l’oeil Food made using ceramic and glazes to re-imagine our favorite foods.

Artists: Greer K, Adam B, max D, Preston T, Laurel M, Olivia G

Our Slab-built ceramic birdhouses first began as paper patterns taped together to realize a scaled three dimensional form from a sketch. The slabs of clay are rolled out by hand and connected to create an architectural form in clay.