Pointing into the wind: an environmental sculpture. Students will engage, in parallel, in a side-by-side design, development, and prototyping process with the Instructor during a month-long residency intensive at Workshop Residence. During the course, students will discuss the history, imagery, symbolism, and function of a weather vane, reinterpreting the object through their own design process and situating it into a broader context. What is a weather vane? What is a weather vane traditionally designed to forecast and what might it signal in a contemporary context (art and otherwise)? How might a weather vane call attention to a species at risk, or raise awareness about a change of public concern? Students will work closely in parallel and together with the Instructor, as a class, and independently, participating in the different steps that lead-up to the production of a designed object, making decisions about their own imagery, materials, mechanism, and process, while learning from the side-by-side involvement from concept to completion of the Instructor's own weather vane for production in collaboration with Workshop Residence in the Dogpatch. At the culmination of the course, students will have a proposal of their own for an environmental sculpture. Students and instructor will convene at each stage in the design process as a group, sharing learning, and supporting each other's knowledge and decisions about design, sourcing, and fabrication. We will work together to consider potential public locations for installation of the weather vane project, and how to best promote broader public interest. Classes will meet primarily in Workshop Residence, with meeting times TBD.

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