Art Department
Sculpture
The sculpture program offers a range of traditional sculpture techniques and processes, but also introduces non-traditional and experimental approaches to three-dimensional form. Three-Dimensional Design and Introduction to Sculpture provide the foundation experience. Advanced courses include Sheet Metal Fabrication, Wood and Stone Carving (including modeling from the human figure), Metal Casting (students cast bronze, aluminum, and glass), and Environmental Installation. Portfolio is an opportunity for advanced students to focus on individual problems and develop a related body of work prior to the senior show.
Occasional special offerings have included Furniture Design, Equipment Design, Public Art (learning the process of preparing a maquette and proposal for a public sculpture).
There are four sculpture studios plus a classroom in the 3-D Complex. These include a wood shop, metal shop, foundry preparation studio, carving studio and glass studio. The wood shop is equipped with industrial quality tools including table saws, band saws, belt and disc sanders, jointers, planers, miter saws, drill presses, a scroll saw, shaper, and wood lathe, and dust collection systems. The metal shop includes oxygen and acetylene welding rigs, TIG and MIG welding, plasma arc cutting, metal cutting band saws, bench grinders, rolls, a shear, drill press, milling machine, metal lathe and fume exhaust system. The casting facilities include a foundry for melting aluminum and bronze, a jib crane, lost wax investment, ceramic shell and resin bonded casting systems, sand blasters, and large annealing kilns for glass casting. The carving studio is equipped with modeling and carving stands, and cutting tools for wood and stone. In addition to the major equipment listed above, a full array of hand and power tools, including air tools is available to support the program. The department also owns a large capacity forklift.
For more information contact:
Ted Metz
Sculpture
metzt@montevallo.edu