SARA BLACK: In
contemporary sculpture,
any material or medium is game.
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DAN PRICE: The school
and the department
moreover is really
beautifully poised
to allow students
to engage directly
with the concerns of the
sculptural field that
make sense to them.
SARA BLACK: We
organize ourselves
around curricular
themes, such things
as public practice,
site, systems,
and that sort of a thing
which guide our curriculum
conceptually.
JULIE BOLOT: SAIC
really pushed me
into exactly what I'm working in
now with research, and history,
and writing, and using the art
object as a form of research.
There are a lot of students
that are materially focused.
Some that are almost
purely conceptual.
And the sculpture department
seems to really represent
the range of these
approaches to what art
can be in the 21st century.
DAN PRICE: K-Lab is
short for knowledge lab.
And this is a place
where students
can take classes
that engage them
into environmental concerns,
food politics, social politics,
as those elements filter
into the sculptural field.
SARA BLACK: By the
end of the semester
we're going to be sitting
at a table that we've built.
We're going to be eating plants
that we've grown and foraged.
And we're going to
be eating mushrooms
that will have eaten our table.
So we're really
interested in a way that
creates this kind of conceptual
cycle and illustrates
how things are deeply entangled
and that materials never end.
That they just change form.
DAN PRICE: We have a set
of traditional shops.
Our wood shop, metal shop, CNC
plasma room, a mould making
area, and foundry.
And as well we have a 12 seat
state-of-the-art PC computing
lab which is simply for
sculpture students to engage
with their coursework of
learning how to generate 3D
models, tool pathways for
CNC milling, and so on.
JACOBO ZAMBRANO: I think I have
enjoyed the spaces for critique
the most.
The nature of some
of my work really
requires a lot of
conversation and analysis.
And in that process
you require a lot
of people coming into your
studio, a lot of meetings,
a lot of very healthy
debates and arguments.
And it really adds
more depth to the work.
It's just a lot of growth
in every possible sense
as a person with the
people around you,
with the classes and new
people, the new knowledge,
the different kinds of
professors that you encounter.
And growth, I think
it's very important.
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