You know who you are for this year-long class, and I appreciate you! Please prioritize and sticker it appropriately to avoid conflicts, or be ready to make significant personal compromises to stay in it, should you choose not to sticker it to fit your full commitment to the year-long experience.
This is the class where each week, you write something you’re genuinely excited to read aloud to your classmates, mostly fiction, but sometimes other kinds of work.
If you’re still feeling it, extend the winter term into Spring, If you’ve heard great things, and are feeling brave about trying a few rounds of Fearless, come on in!
This sculpture class, part of Scobie’s “Art School” curriculum, will change your brain’s ability to see and understand what you see, whether you want to be an artist or not. You’ll use clay to make a real sculpture* of a real thing, in this case a Pleistocene Bison’s leg bone. You’ll do some drawings to study the bone, and then begin adding clay to an armature to make a scaled copy of this complex, organic form.
Each day of class, two days per week, will be a quiet, coached studio session of focused work on your sculpture, requiring standing and walking and drawing and measuring and observing.
You’ll finish the class with a new ability to see and understand all the shapes around you.
*(Note: These sculptures will be photographed at the end of the class, then recycled; they are learning tools, not something to keep.)
If you like making things, fixing things, and being competent with tools, you should always take as much Shop Life as you can possibly get your hands on! Here’s what we’ll be doing: