Sculpture - San Francisco Art Institute

Sculpture from San Francisco Art Institute is a Campus Certificate Sculpture degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. SFAI?s Sculpture/Ceramics Department hinges on the interplay of the material and the conceptual. Starting from the belief that research is a valid tool along with a hammer, the program emphasizes investigation, critical thinking, and problem solving as central components of artistic development. SFAI?s department supports work in ceramics, wood, metal, plaster, fabric, and electronics, while also encouraging interdisciplinary experimentation with digital media, performance, installation, kinetics, and site-specific strategies. The program offers a number of courses focused on systems and environments?sculpture as informed by urban studies, sustainability, ecology, architecture, public art, and activism?through which artistic practice becomes a model for social engagement. The Bay Area is a perfect setting to survey sculpture in its many forms, with venues such as SFMOMA, Headlands Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the de Young Museum, the Asian Art Museum, and the di Rosa Preserve. Ceramics Program The Ceramics Program at SFAI appreciates ceramics as a unique medium of contemporary art practice and theory. Since the 1960s, SFAI has been home to internationally known ceramic artists such as Richard Shaw, Karen Breschi, Ron Nagle, and Jim Melchert. The current curriculum combines traditional methodologies with conceptual experiments, framed within interdisciplinary and global contexts. The history of ceramics extends across many cultures, including Chinese funerary statues, Greek pottery, Nok terracotta figures, California Mission architecture, Japanese glazed tile roofs, English Victorian brickwork, Dogon villages, the sewers of Paris, and numerous traditions of fine art and craft-based ceramics. Against this backdrop, students investigate contemporary strategies such as installation, claymation, architecture, design, and public interventions. Central issues of research and engagement include form and surface, materiality, function versus non-function, craft versus art, the social and the personal, complexities of gender, and the relation of ceramics to science and the environment. With a varied but synergistic curriculum, the program allows for a challenging exploration of an ancient yet ever-evolving discipline. View more details on San Francisco Art Institute . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Sculpture courses.