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4.00 Credits
and 4030 4 credits ( per semester). Special topic (offered irregularly) Furniture design and making for the individual studio artist. Wood, metal, plastics, and other appropriate materials are discussed in solutions to applied problems. The history of furniture design is also studied. Prerequisite: VSC 2020
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) This course provides an opportunity to work with a visiting artist on a variety of exercises that reflect the artist’s expertise. Students are asked to expand their personal concerns in the light of new information, attitudes, and techniques offered by the visiting artists. Prerequisite: VSC 1010 or permission of the head of the Sculpture Board of Study
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every third semester An extensive investigation of the figure and organic forms as sources of ideas for sculpture. Initial work is from the figure; further work uses the figure as a springboard for the illumination of other metaphoric and/or abstract possibilities within the vocabulary of organic form. Mold-making methods are fully explored. Prerequisite: VSC 2200 or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every third semester This is the conclusion for those enrolled in VSC 3060, when those works are cast in bronze. It is also designed to enable new students to enter this sequence of courses here. Students produce forms in clay or wax and cast them in bronze. The traditional methods of lost-wax casting are explored, and students participate in all aspects of bronze foundry work. Prerequisite: VSC 3060 or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
and 3180 Site-Specific Sculpture I and II 4 credits ( per semester). Fall The varied natural environment offered by the Purchase College campus provides the setting and materials for outdoor projects during the first half of the semester. Students also work indoors on longer-term projects that involve site selection, preparatory drawings and maquettes, and final execution in full scale. Study of the relationships between contemporary sculpture modes: sculpture and architecture, sculpture in the landscape, sculpture as place. Prerequisite: VSC 2040
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4.00 Credits
and 3210 4 credits ( per semester). Spring Using Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space as a text, students investigate the idea of shelters and structures, both built and imaginary, as a source for 3-D work ranging from the miniature to the environmental, from the substantial to the ephemeral. Prerequisite: VSC 2040
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2.00 Credits
2 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) Takes advanced students through the process leading to the fabrication and installation of a public art commission. Students answer a call for proposals for a specific site, then create and present a proposal, including a written statement, maquette, drawings, budget, and fabrication schedule, to a committee of practicing professionals. Prerequisite: VSC 3170 or 3190 or permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every semester An introduction to video as a creative visual, auditory, and spatial medium. Students learn the fundamentals of video production with the goal of making original work in the genres of single-channel tape, performance, and installation. At the same time, students are introduced to key works in the history of time-based arts in a weekly thematic program of viewing, listening, reading, and critique. Prerequisite: VSC 1010
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every semester A workshop devoted to the production of independent video projects. Students are expected to have some facility with electronic cameras, sound, and editing techniques and to be highly motivated in the use of video as a creative tool. The course is strongly (though not exclusively) focused on video installation, exploring both its unique properties as a mixed-media, time-based form and its relationship to other contemporary 3-D practices. Prerequisite: VSC 3410
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) An introduction to carving as a discipline in sculpture. Initial emphasis is placed on technical issues of tools and process with the intent of using carving as a method of producing art objects. Historical and contemporary issues are also explored. Prerequisite: VSC 1010 and 2040
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