Harvard Students

Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Adam Stack (above), a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student in the Department of Anthropology, believes the "Cast in Bronze" workshop has transformed his approach to teaching. "The class gave me a whole new array of ways to use objects, and not only bronze objects, in discussion and lab sections in class," he said.

“One of the great things about doing this kind of hands-on experience, the same as fieldwork, is that it challenges you to think about materials or a subject in an entirely new way,” Blier said. “As teachers and scholars, it’s important that we provide as many opportunities as possible to get students into the realm of challenging what they know about their field of study, and finding new ways of looking at objects or cultures.” - source link here.

Graduate Program

University of Florida

Graduate
The graduate sculpture program is a professional studio program designed to further the conceptual development, aesthetic presentation, technical skills, and career goals of the M.F.A. candidates in sculpture. The main objective of the program is directed toward the creation of works of art culminating in a significant body of work.

Graduate students may choose to work within any medium and to direct their study to any three-dimensional specialization such as installation, performance, public art, environmental sculpture, or any of the studio practices. No particular style, aesthetic, or theoretical approach is stressed over any other. Students are encouraged to learn other disciplines and to integrate those practices into their sculpture.

Facilities
The Sculpture Area has three large individual studios for graduate students within the sculpture facility, one private studio in Yon Hall, and the use of two courtyards for large work. The Sculpture Shop consists of a wood shop, metal shop, and foundry. Equipment includes the following: AC/DC arc welders, MIG and TIG welders, plasma cutter, electric spot welder, oxyacetylene cutting and welding equipment, overhead chain fall, stationary sandblaster, portable sandblaster, metal roller, metal brake, metal shear, bench grinders, drill presses, table saw, planer, joiner, wood lathe, three vertical band saws and one horizontal band saw, belt and disc sanders, foundry furnace for bronze and aluminum casting, gas powered kiln for lost-wax, gas-fired forge, anvils and swage blocks in addition to a large assortment of small electric and hand tools. The Sculpture Shop is fully equipped with all the technology needed for metal fabrication and wood construction. Graduate students in Sculpture have unlimited access to the facilities.

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Sculpture + Extended Media Summer Studio Program

Virginia Commonwealth University
The Summer Studio Program at Virginia Commonwealth University (SSP@VCU) is an 8-week studio-intensive program for artists interested in developing work in a supportive hothouse environment. The program fosters development of professional attitudes and skills with an emphasis on individual investigation. The program provides students with an opportunity for concentrated studio practice at an advanced level within a community of talented and motivated artists. This two-month, non-credit, post-baccalaureate-style residency studio program is appropriate for the artist developing a portfolio for application to graduate school, as well as the artist interested in an opportunity for uninterrupted immersion and development of a studio practice in a challenging and supportive environment.

WHO SHOULD APPLY

• Sculptors, painters and printmakers with undergraduate degrees who want to develop a body of work to serve as a portfolio for application to excellent graduate programs.
• Sculptors, painters and printmakers with undergraduate degrees who are interested in further developing studio work and critical thinking in a creative professional environment.
• Mature independent sculptors, painters and printmakers who wish to participate in critical dialogue in order to push their work to the next level.
• Talented college seniors who are serious students of art.

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UC Santa Cruz

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