ARTS 2384 / 3384
Spring 2025 - STUDIO 277
M, W 9:00-11:30AM
Office hours by appointment - M, T, W
FLEETING AND FOUND: EPHEMERAL SCULPTURE focuses on creating 3-D art projects that are ephemeral and temporary. Themes of process, lifespan, duration, intervention, entropy, and degradation will be explored. Students are required to complete three art projects, participate in group critiques and discussions, and produce a final portfolio. Readings and discussions on the course topic will augment studio work.
WEEK ONE
Jan. 13 Welcome
Introductions and Course Overview
Jan. 15 5-minute Presentations: tell us about yourself and your interests in art and taking this class
1. Origins - Where you are from or feel most at home geographically or spiritually
2. Contemporary artists you are inspired by - examples of work
3. Your artistic process and interests so far - examples of your past work
4. Why this course? Goals for Semester
Toolboxes, Lockers and Storage Areas. Tool room, Studio orientation.
Weekend Watch – Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art (Kanopy or other Streaming Platform)
WEEK TWO
Jan. 20 No Class MLK Day
Jan. 22 Project 1: Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation
Introduction to Project 1
Reading Due: Erwin Wurm: Watch an Artist Make a One-Minute Sculpture With a Sweater Ends of the Earth and Back by Miwon Kwon Olafur Eliasson on How to Do Good Art by Ned Beauman
WEEK THREE
Jan. 27 Project 1: Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation
Reading Due: Robert Smithson: Earth Projects, Hans Haacke Weather or Not, Lucy Lippard: Land Art in the Rear View Mirror
Discussion / Studio Work Day
Jan. 29 Project 1: Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation
Studio Work Day
WEEK FOUR
Feb. 3 Project 1: Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation
1-page Project Statements Due
Studio Work Day
Feb. 5 Project 1: Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation
Studio Work Day
WEEK FIVE
Feb. 10 Project 1: Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation
Process Crits
Studio Work Day
Feb. 12 Project 1: Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation
Process Crits
Studio Work Day
WEEK SIX
Feb. 17 Project 1: Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation
Studio Work Day
* Reserve exhibit space or designate space in the studio
Feb. 19 Project 1: Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation
Studio Work Day - No Class Group Meeting - Studio Open All Day
WEEK SEVEN
Feb. 24 Critique Project 1 Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation,
Prepare, Print, and Exhibit Project Statements, 300-500 Words
Feb. 26 Critique Project 1 Channeling Weather: Environment, Change and Degradation,
Prepare, Print, and Exhibit Project Statements, 300-500 Words
WEEK EIGHT
March 3 Reading Due: The Interventionists Toolkit / Part 1 and Readings Due / Discussion: Writings from the Situationist International by Guy Debord Gordon Matta Clark's Food (When meals played the muse by Randy Kennedy) Class Derive
March 5 Project 2: Spatial Intervention
Part 2 / Part 3 by Mimi Zeiger,
How Mining the Museum Changed the Art World by Kerr Houston and How to live, according to Marina Abramović by Elise Bell
WEEK NINE
March 10 Project 2: Spatial Intervention
Studio Work Day
March 12 Project 2: Spatial Intervention
Studio Work Day
WEEK TEN
March 17 Project 2: Spatial Intervention
Studio Work Day
March 19 Critique Project 2: Spatial Intervention
WEEK ELEVEN
March 24 Spring Break - No Class
March 26 Spring Break - No Class
WEEK TWELVE
March 31 Project 3: Sculptural Assemblage
Readings Due: Contemporary Assemblage: The Art of Found Objects
Going to Pieces in the 21st Century by Laura Hoptman, The Arte Povera period, Germano Celant , Ask the Dust by Massimiliano Gioni, Arte Povera
Self-guided Field Trip: Resource Central — Resource Central 6400 Arapahoe Rd, Boulder, CO 80303
April 2 Project 3: Sculptural Assemblage
All Section Readings Due / Resource Field Trip Due
Lecture: Sculptural Assemblage / Readings Discussion
WEEK THIRTEEN
April 7 Project 3: Sculptural Assemblage
Due: Resource Materials Survey, Drawings
April 9 Project 3: Sculptural Assemblage
Due: All Materials for Final Project in the Studio
Studio Work Day
WEEK FOURTEEN
April 14 Project 3: Sculptural Assemblage
Studio Work Day
April 16 Project 3: Sculptural Assemblage
Studio Work Day
WEEK FIFTEEN
April 21 Project 3: Sculptural Assemblage - R Away
Studio Work Day
April 23 Project 3: Sculptural Assemblage - R Away
Studio Work Day
WEEK SIXTEEN
April 28 Project 3: Sculptural Assemblage
Studio Work Day
April 30 Critique Project 3: Sculptural Assemblage
FINAL PORTFOLIOS
May 5 Final Portfolios Due by 5PM