Due: Wed., April 29 For this assignment, you will create a Protector or Companion as a soft sculpture hybrid of (at least) two animal forms. The spirit of this assignment is to use found patterns (of two or more animals) and transform them into something creative and new by combining them together. You are provided …
Due: Wed., April 15 mending (verb) repair (something that is broken or damaged). return to health; heal. improve (an unpleasant situation, especially a disagreement). Mending is a powerful way to reclaim and heal an object (or relationship) that might otherwise be discarded or set aside. Mending is also resourceful and can be very personal. As …
Group Proposal Due: Wed., April 1 Create a proposal for a structure and wearable that takes on the theme of Community Care during the time of Covid-19. The designs will be to care for us in ways that we most need at this moment. This can include ideas that are practical, spiritual, aspirational, fantastic, surreal, …
Due: Wed., March 4 “Doppelgänger: (German “double walker”) is a paranormal double of a living person, typically representing evil or misfortune. In modern vernacular, the word has come to refer to any double or look-alike of a person.” (Wikipedia.org) Recreating an everyday object out of new materials, such as fabric, changes our experience of that …
(image: Cattle by Karyn Lao) Due: Mon., Feb. 24 For this assignment you will work with a partner to create an inflatable that alters our experience of a space within the library. You and your partner will use your objects from Part 1 of the Push/Pull assignment as studies for creating an inflatable sculpture and installation. Your …
Due: Mon., Feb. 10 Basic primary forms can transform into expressive and complex shapes through a wide variety of physical manipulations. For our purposes, primary forms include spheres, cubes, cones, and cylinders. By exerting forces on the interior and/or exterior of the skin of the form, a whole world of new shapes, textures, and expressions …
Due: Mon. Jan. 27 Create a written list of 50 different ways you can transform a sewn sphere to create something new. Upload to canvas.
(image above: Anna Hepler, from her Addendum exhibition) Due: Wed., Jan. 22 Create five improvised, unusually shaped inflatables, each at least the size of your head. You are supplied with colorful plastic and tape for this project. You are also welcome to use your own plastic and tape. You are also supplied with straws in …