Sculpture

Overview

Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design curriculum foregrounds studio praxis, generous group conversation, lectures and meetings with visiting artists, and studio electives to enhance each artist’s skills and methods of making. This approach fosters a tight-knit student cohort encouraged to regard each other as lifelong friends and colleagues. We consciously develop critical discourse and interdisciplinary research modalities that actively support varied ways of working and thinking. Students in Sculpture have access to advanced technologies and are encouraged to pursue social and alternative practices.

Graduates with Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design will be able to:

• express an understanding of contemporary visual art

• demonstrate the intention, motivation and skills required to pursue and sustain a career as an artist

• articulate the conceptual framework that informs individual pieces, collections and overall practice

• contextualize one’s practice within the diverse landscape of global contemporary art practice

• demonstrate knowledge of intersectional discourse and methods of making

• understand how to ethically practice within the framework of community engagement

• write syllabi, formulate a teaching philosophy and think through pedagogical hurdles

• support, cultivate and participate in high-level intellectual and academic discourse