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

As part of this course, students will learn traditional- expanded sculpture techniques, from, assemblage, found object, wood and ceramics. This course is an inquiry into spatial realities through tools, objects, and beyond. The students will begin to critically analyze objects. 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.

Lab/Materials fee:$150 Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time