Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0140 - Material Worlds: An Introduction to Sculpture

As part of this course, students will learn traditional sculpture techniques as well as expanded sculpture that incorporates Rasquache art, Folk art, readymades, and ceramics. This course is an inquiry into spatial realities where settler colonial history, tools, objects, and human bodies interact. The students will critically analyze objects that have condensed and abridged meanings and histories. Scholar Lisa Lowe points out, "artifacts appear to abbreviate the whole course of history into a finite object", while simultaneously refusing to yield this infinite multiplicity." In Material Worlds, students will engage in embodied learning and making that situates them within their worlds and raises questions of existence and social responsibility. Keywords:Sculpture, Rasquache art, settler colonialism and ceramics

The content of this course deals with issues of Race and Power Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. Lab/Materials fee: $165