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Extended Education - Sculpture

Welding Workshop

OAK 244
Instructor: John Poole
Sat. & Sun., 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., August 2–3
2 sessions. $140; $25 materials fee payable to instructor at first session. Noncredit. Prerequisite: none

Designed for artists and designers who want to integrate metal into their work. Participants learn basic welding skills using the MIG welder, as well as the use of metal fabrication equipment, including the chop saw, bandsaws, and grinders. Emphasis is placed on skill development and safety as applied to welding. A fast-paced, hands-on course for students with no welding experience and those who need a refresher.

Materials fee covers supplies and a welding mask. Please come to class wearing a long-sleeved cotton shirt, pants, leather boots.

Concrete Garden Bowls

OAK 246
Instructor: Ellen Babcock
Sat. & Sun., 10 a.m.–4 p.m., June 28 & 29
2 sessions. $120; $35 lab fee payable at registration. Noncredit. Prerequisite: none

Participants create large bowls for outdoor use as simple sculptures or functional objects in their gardens. Explore the various colors and aggregates that can be added to concrete mixes, which are then reinforced and cast into concave forms. Using found plastic or metal containers and packed wet sand as molds, students investigate the potential for simple forms to yield pleasing and durable shapes.

Lab fee covers concrete and pigments. A materials list will be sent to registrants.

Metal Casting

OAK 248
Instructor: John Poole
Tues. & Thurs., 6:30–9:30 p.m., July 8–August 7
10 sessions. $300; $35 materials fee payable to instructor at first session. Noncredit. Prerequisite: none

Come explore the process of casting. While focusing on traditional bronze/aluminum casting using the investment and sand processes, students also investigate nontraditional methods and materials. Participants learn direct working of wax and mold making (plaster and rubber), as well as metalworking techniques (TIG welding and chasing) through the final patination of finished metal pieces. An ideal course for those first-time casting enthusiasts, as well as those who are more experienced.

Materials fee covers wax, plaster, and sand. Cost of bronze/aluminum extra.

3D Visual Dynamics:
Some Assembly Required

SF 800
Instructor: Christina La Sala
Mon., Tues., Thurs., 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., June 30–July 31
15 sessions. $1,700 pass/fail* (3 credits). Prerequisite: none

Explore the relationships between form, process, perception, and intention. Focus is placed on space, materials, and form as they relate to issues of content and expression, context and function. Students develop technical skill, formal awareness, and conceptual breadth through a variety of representational and abstract problems in wood, paper, plaster, and other media.

The class works with additive, subtractive, and casting methods, as well as the properties of volume, surface, light, weight, and orientation. Basic joinery in woodworking, mold making, and simple gravity–driven devices are also discussed. Learners develop creative and unique solutions to a series of design problems as they relate to raised conceptual themes. Class time is divided among lecture, demonstrations, research, and studio time.

* This course also can be taken for a letter grade: $3,660