Student explores process, casting and materials. She casts fiberglass and resin into packing supports. Push pins were used to hold the form up and became embedded in the final form.

Students are to explore the sculptural potential of text.  

 Student creates a video documenting the coating of her body in glue, letting it dry and molting off her semi rigid clothing. Then exhibits the video documentation on the clothing. 

Student creates a painting in response to a video made about his bedroom and his guests. The painting initially appears as a modernist non-objective abstraction, but viewers soon notice that formal elements in the painting are designed to coincide with elements from the  video. 

Over the course of a semester I repeatedly critiqued two students who were working on collaborative body of work. The final result was an exhibition in the student gallery. This is one of the pieces in the series. Themes that came up were humor, play, temporality and materials. 

Independent study with a student who designed an alternative visual calendar for normally private experiences. 

Student designed a play that incorporated her own sculptures, videos, and costuming as props. 

Student designed a sculptural environment that translated an aesthetic style that he developed in printmaking and video work. He wanted to make a work that incorprated 2-D/3-D/and 4-D elements into a cohesive form.

I asked students in my drawing course to explore the potential meaning of everyday objects to speak about the sublime. I require them to draw from life by constructing a miniature controlled environment and a fixed plane in which to view that space. The use of common objects and materials is something I encourage in most of my courses from sculpture and installation to begining drawing. I provide readings to contextualize the value in this, such as "The Education of the Un-Artist" by Allan Kapro. 

Students recreate an object, or series of objects that conjure memory. 

Students create an object or series of objects that conjure memory. 

Students transform simple planar material into a more complex form that considers principles and elements of 3/D design. 

Students transform simple planar material into a more complex form that considers principles and elements of 3/D design. 

Students learn basic woodworking techniques, and basic principles of 3/D design by replicating an everyday object into a new material. 

Students learn basic woodworking techniques, and basic principles of 3/D design by replicating an everyday object into a new material. 

I often encourage students to explore the concept of hybridity. In this case the student used the opportunity to critique the cosmetic industry. She combined a mascara wand with a tree. 

I often encourage students to explore hybridity. In this case the student favored a more absurd cmbination of a phone and a Tank. 

I find opportunities to encourage my students to explore movement, time, and participation as it relates to form. 

In this case the student combined his interest in sacred geometry to create a public sculpture that encouraged a social situation.  The blend between craft and concept is important to my method. In this case the student replicated the aesthetic of an iconic tree swing. 

Student found a tennis racket case that was also a cigarette advertisement. She wanted to highlight the irony of the corporate apporpriation of the feminist slogan to sell a product that is harmful to people.