This research lab is structured to help put aside the goal of creating finished objects to instead engage in a practice of trial and error. It is centered on experimentation with a focus on creating processes and inventing skills and tools to make work. The course will begin with a set of introductory projects that will help us get to know each other. Drawing on their background, skills and knowledge, every person in the class will be a resource to the entire group. Together we will explore domestic and everyday materials—furniture, clothing, anything close at hand—to engage in projects that take us out of the comfort zones. We will question how we regularly engage in our practice to make room for a new vocabulary of materials and ways of making. After the introductory series, we will collaborate to design a new series of open, interdisciplinary projects, born out of the group and tailored to our individual goals and interests. In the end we will have made a big mess and hopefully no art. Studio Research Laboratory (SRL) classes are designed around a specific interdisciplinary theme that is not bound to a specific idea of medium or production. Classes are limited to 6 students and often do not meet on a regular basis throughout the semester. Depending on the course some courses may have a travel component. These courses may be unique to the timing of a specific one time event and are not repeated. In the past, classes have ranged from topics related to professional development, including grant writing, gallery economics, and professional development to more theoretical propositions, such as the concept of failure within a studio practice or an exploration of the grotesque in contemporary art. They give students crucial experience in creating fully realized projects that are embedded in the art world, and they help them to cultivate a network of fellow practitioners and supporting institutions that can be built upon after graduation.

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