Sculpture

BFA Sculpture

The sculpture area at EKU offers courses structured to meet the needs of a variety of students, both from within and outside the BFA program, whether majors or minors.

The first two courses in the Sculpture sequence, beginning with the core, emphasize traditional techniques such as modeling, mold making, carving, foundry casting and direct fabrication. Courses at the intermediate and advanced levels are more open in nature, and stress personal development through elective projects based on the student's interests.

The Sculpture program benefits from having one of the finest studio facilities designed for undergraduate instruction in the region. An extensive suite of spaces includes separate areas and state-of-the-art equipment for work in almost any media respective of modeling, wood fabrication, metal casting and construction, and stone carving. An industrial hoist and track system, together with large outer and partitioning doors, make is possible to work at large scale and with heavy materials. The bronze-casting area is particularly well-equipped. Space is also made available for the exclusive and private use of BFA majors and other advanced students.

The facilities of the Sculpture program have made it possible for students to produce a body of high-quality and diverse work that prepared them well for graduate school. To date, all sculpture majors at EKU who have applied for graduate work have been accepted into their first-choice schools and been granted assistantships for their first year. This alone is testimony to the strength of the program and the accomplishments of its participants.

Courses and Descriptions

ART 220 - Sculpture Survey I I, II.
Provides an introduction to basic sculpture problems, approaches, and techniques. Course problems are in additive, substitutive, and subtractive techniques.

ART 321 - Sculpture Survey II I, II.
Continuation of sculpture sequence, with basic sculptural problems set in foundry, constructive and mixed-media processes.

ART 322 - Intermediate Sculpture I I, II.
Provides an in-depth exploration of sculptural problems at the intermediate level, developed through projects designed to fit personal interests in foundry processes.

ART 423 - Advanced Sculpture I, II.
The students sculptural directions are refined and directed at the advanced level through individually tailored extended projects.

ART 820 - Sculpture
Formerly ART 827. Prerequisite: Six hours of work in sculpture or consent of instructor.