NWSA- ART 3D Comprehensive: November 2018

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Assignment #7: Natural Materials Exploration

NWSA: Art 3-D Comprehensive

Fall 2018 /Friday 1:10pm - 3:45pm / Room 5102

Instructors: Hans Evers & Lauren Shapiro

Assignment #7: Natural Materials Exploration

Due date 12/14

Create a floor or wall sculpture using exclusively materials that occur naturally. You will have to collect many ofthe same type of item for this project and figure out how to join those items together to make a sculpture- without using hot glue, screws, or artificial materials.

Material suggestions: Palm fronds, driftwood, long grasses, tree pods, anything interesting that you can access a lot of. Possible solutions for joining: Weaving, braiding, sewing, tying, bending, piercing, joining, stacking or whatever technique you come up with to make an object out of separate natural materials.

The Sculpture must be three-dimensional and stand and support itself on the floor or must project from the wall.At home and during the in-class workday you will try different techniques of arranging or joining your objects together to make one unified form.

Size Requirement:The sculpture must be 3 feet long in at least one dimension.

November 26 2 fully developed sketchbook drawings due to instructors via reminds

Must indicate how you intend to construct the piece

November 30 bring sketches and work in progress and materials to class

Work in class on fabrication

December 7 no class –At Basel

photos due of work in progress

December 14 final crits

December 21 wood working tool demos and intro of next assignment

Artists to research:

Spencer Byles , Nils-Udo, Sally J. Smith , Martin Hill , Doris Salcedo, Andy Goldsworthy, David Nash

Friday, November 2, 2018

#6 Inflatable Sculpture

Project #6 GIANT INFLATABLE Sculpture

Create an full-size inflatable form. Your sculpture can be a representation of a single creature/object, or an imagined combination of 2 or more creatures/objects. In addition to basic craft/fabrication skills, the conceptual idea we will be focusing on is:

1.How volume and mass can be impermanent or temporary.

2.How volume and mass can be made up of something that is not solid.

3. How abstraction can be applied to form as both simplification and description.

Choose a a form to create that has multiple extremities and features. ( legs,tails, antlers,ears,) Imagine the slow transformation of deflated nonsense into a recognizable animal form. Where is a good spot to vent in air ?( legs/ tail?)

Projects will be constructed in and out of class with the project

Project requirements

1.Minimum size 6 feet long

2.Design and construction are well-planned

3.Recognizable form or animal ( when inflated)

4. Made of plastic ( recycled)

Considerations:

What will the scale be? full size? Research and find out exactly how big your animal is .... What are your material choices? do they say anything about the animals behavior? are they ironic? what colors? How do the extremities connect to the body? Can you embellish the surface? Draw on details/ patterns/ markings? Does the sculpture have to be airtight? Does the method of connecting seems have an aesthetic appeal?

11/2- Presentation and discussion (before soft sculpture crit).

Homework: sketch ideas and gather materials.

11/9- MATERIAL DISCUSSION/ WORK DAY ( preceded by the soft sculpture critique) : plastic bags/ garbage bags/ plastic sheets etc. ( recycled materials) clear packing tape ( you will need at least 3 rolls) supplies to embellish and mark the out side? Sketches made of how to make animal, supplies to work on inflatable animal.

GRADE ASSIGNED FOR COMPLETING THE CONNECTION CUPPLING THAT CONNECTS YOUR SCULPTURE TO THE FAN.

11/16- Critique day. PROJECTS DUE!

RUBRIC FOR GRADE:

1.Consistency of finish.

2.balancing levels of detail and abstraction.

3.the ability to hold air / the ability to hold form.