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Students continue to develop techniques in joinery, carving and turning through projects designed to build their visual and technical vocabulary. Specified course work increases the advanced student’s understanding of wood as a material for making fine art. Special emphasis is given to finishing processes and additive construction techniques.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DAF 180
The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
This course investigates the interrelationship of process, creativity and concept through various casting techniques. Bronze, iron, aluminum, cement and nontraditional materials are used to explore casting as a process and as a means to a product. Open to non-majors with departmental approval.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 130, DFA 233
This course is aimed at expanding the student’s modeling and casting skills and familiarity with the figure, while building on conceptual understanding of the role of the figure in contemporary sculpture.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 130, DFA 230
This course investigates sculpture object making. Students experiment with a wide range of scale, format, materials and media options, with emphasis on the creation of meaning in personal objects. Presentations and readings provide historical and contemporary context for a deeper understanding of sculpture as object. Readings include Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed .
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 230, DFA 231 OR DFA 332
This course will introduce students to bending birch plywood to create custom curved shapes. Students work through the basics of building, and lamination processes. Paper modeling and other hands-on processes will be used to inform design decisions and mimic construction processes. The plywood bending techniques allow for a wide range of possibilities ranging from lighting fixtures to seating and sculpture. Open to non-majors.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Take DFN-116
This course explores the theory and practice of creative site activation through material, technological and performance-based interventions. Students will have the opportunity to work in extended relationships to site and space, via light, sound, time based technologies like video, and performance. Students will investigate installation as active experience between artist and site, and site and the question of audience. Open to non-majors with departmental approval.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 105, DFA 130, DFA 253
The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Students research and explore sculptural methods and materials through the exploration of both non-representational and figurative approaches.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFN 116 DFN 121 SAC106 (formely DFA-106)
This course teaches the basics for woodworking while introducing the woodshop and the equipment necessary for working in wood. Students investigate, through demonstrations and exercises, various techniques used in woodworking.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFN 116