Some ideas are best expressed in three-dimensions. This course combines Sculpture and Textiles for a 3D-focused fine arts all-day studio program.

This studio is an exploration in working three dimensionally to understand the interaction between form and space. By experimenting with a variety of materials and techniques, including woodworking, mold making, casting, wirework, and site-specific installation, you experience the ways in which these choices affect a sculpture's form.You investigate the concept of occupying space by considering line, plane, volume, composition, rhythm, balance, color, proportion, and scale as well as how context and presentation influence the perception of a piece.

This course introduces students working in diverse disciplines to the creative potential of cloth and string. From woven forms to surface design to handwork, students explore a wide range of hands-on textile techniques in both two and three-dimensions including felting, stitching, netting, crocheting, dyeing, fabric printing, and weaving. Students are encouraged to work experimentally and to push the boundaries of the media, using both traditional and non-traditional materials.

Class discussions address ideas of positive versus negative, interior versus exterior, static versus dynamic, and representational versus abstract.

While creating projects that range from object-oriented pieces to experimental, time-based, and collaborative work, you explore conceptual approaches to sculpture in order to express ideas and issues.

This studio includes field trips exploring San Francisco's dynamic public art scene and museums.

Pre-College 2024 application opens September 15, 2023.