The studio is a laboratory for exploring how we merge content and material.
The basics of design and development of manual skill initiates the search to finding an individual or collaborative visual language.
Sometimes we work from a place of abstraction and pull meaning from the action of transformation.
Sometimes we work from an idea and search for the best method of conveyance.
The hope is to cultivate a growth mindset; flexible and not beholden to previous, fixed expectations.
(goals-acknowledgement of effort, embrace failure(1in100aregood) no growth without labor-werklehre, encouraging creative rule breaking/bending/stretching/interpereting, liberation pedagogy, BMC holistic approach, importance of study outside art)
Clayton Bi, 2023, Honors Project
Kaitlyn Parks, 2022 Honors project
Public Art course installation, 2021
Students were limited to a single 2x4
Inflatables. Students were tasked with replicating something without the use of tape measures or rulers, creating their own tools for measurement and working as a team. The inflatable becomes a space for gathering.
3D design project that builds on foundational skills of constructing precise geometric shapes.
Tape casting
Students were tasked with creating a sculpture that transforms.
Line in 3 dimensions.
An excercise in texture's affect on form
Modular sculpture. Students were tasked with using many of one thing.
Student Kaitlyn Parks' project emphasizing the connection of organic and artificial forms