Metal fabrication is an integral part of the modern world. The practice of welding is used in numerous disciplines such as landscape architecture, industrial design, furniture and construction - professions that relate directly to the practice of sculpture. From bicycles frames to bridges, metal and its processes are used on a daily basis to create all types of products and structures. This course is designed to advance the student's skills with many aspects of ferrous and non-ferrous metal technology. The class emphasis will be on building concepts and creating sculptural works of art while furthering skills working with and fabricating metal. The course will include gas and electric welding, metal cutting, surfaces, forging and blacksmithing, cold and hot metal forming, bending and fastening. The course will also include an introduction to basic machine tools and metal sand casting. Students are encouraged to work in mixed media by combining other materials and process with metal techniques.Dynamic Media in Sculpture interdisciplinary sculpture is designed to explore the application of both standard and emerging technologies in the creation and manipulation of innovative new forms in sculpture. Students will gain practical, hand-on experience and develop both a solid historical nd theoretical background in the field of sculpture and technology to engage the potentials of new technologies in art making. Learning to work with the important ideas behind art and technology, students will gain an important understanding of work encompassing trans-disciplinary sculpture in order to pursue ideas that are larger than the scope of any one sculptural medium. Students are gfiven a broad interdisciplinary grounding in the skills, concepts, and hands-on experiences to the froms and techniques central to technologically based art making. The course will cover precision metalwoking, fabrication for motion, actuator design and integration, activating objects/kinetics, interactive installation and responsive objects. Prerequisite: Intro to Sculpture, Junior standingSculpture workshops are critique-based studio courses that investigate interdisciplinary topics proposed by faculty based on their fieldwork, experience, and expertise. Emphasis is on developing each student's individualized research and expanding their studio practice to consider broader concerns, methods, and contexts.

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