This Saturday studio moves sculpture beyond the walls of the studios and classrooms and into the field. Through scavenging and treasure hunting, students will source materials from unconventional and overlooked places — from scrap yards to botanical gardens — allowing them to discover latent meaning embedded in discarded objects.
Frequent field trips will function as research expeditions, where gathering becomes both material and conceptual inquiry. Back in the studio — and then often back out in the world — students will transform found materials into site-responsive installations in unexpected off-campus locations.
Emphasis is placed on material intelligence, context, and transformation: how objects carry history, how place shapes meaning, and how installation can shift perception. Students will experiment with scale, temporality, and environment while developing strategies for working outside institutional frameworks.
This course treats scavenging as a creative act, installation as a form of intervention, and sculpture as something alive in relation to site. This will be a field trip heavy course and will include a weekend camping trip in Grass Valley.

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