Sculpture
The Sculpture Area enables students to develop proficiency in fundamental sculptural materials and techniques, including woodworking, metal working, mold-making and casting, and some digital fabrication. Doing and thinking, hands-on learning and the construction of meaning, are emphasized in equal measure; haptic engagement and the construction of metaphor permeate every sculpture class.
Sculpture Faculty
Professor and Sculpture Area Head
Rodney McMillian
Professor
Hirsch Perlman
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Lecturer
Alicia Piller
Lecturer
David Roy
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Sculpture Lab Supervisor
Andrea Hidalgo
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Location & Contact Information
Sculpture Area Location
The Sculpture Area is located on the 1st floor of the Broad Art Center, Suite 1256
Sculpture Resource Room – 1256D
Sculpture White Room – 1200
Sculpture Lab Supervisor
Andrea Hidalgo
E: andreahidalgo@arts.ucla.edu
T: (310) 206-6972
Office: 1256A Broad Art Center
Sculpture Undergraduate & Graduate Courses
Undergraduate Sculpture Courses
- Units: 4
- Studio, eight hours; five hours arranged. Introduction to concepts and forms of contemporary sculpture to become familiar with tools and material to enable students to visually manifest their individual ideas. Presentation of work by contemporary artists.
- Units: 5
- Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 1B. Selected studies in sculpture, historical and contemporary; modeling, carving, casting, welding, and other media; forms in space, including installations and nonstudio pieces. May be repeated for a maximum of 20 units.
- Units: 5
- Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 1B. Varied approaches to historical and contemporary sculpture that highlights its social impact and cultural content. Themed lectures and studio assignments develop students' technical, expressive, and conceptual tools to understand and explore anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion as expressed in objects, sculpture, and built environment. Combination of courses 145 and 145A may be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
- Units: 2 to 4
- Tutorial, to be arranged. Preparation: 3.0 grade-point average in major. Corequisite: course 190. Limited to junior/senior art majors. Individual intensive studio project or independent study, with scheduled meetings to be arranged between faculty member and student. Tangible evidence of project or mastery of subject matter required. May be repeated for maximum of 8 units. Individual contract required. Letter grading.
- Units: 2 to 4
- Tutorial, to be arranged. Preparation: 3.0 grade-point average overall, 3.5 grade-point average in major. Corequisite: course 190. Limited to junior/senior art majors. Development and completion of comprehensive research or studio project under direct supervision of faculty member. May be repeated for maximum of 8 units. Individual contract required. Letter grading.
Graduate Sculpture Courses
- Units: 2 to 8
- Studio, eight hours. Studies in sculpture with specific attention to the ongoing nature, specificity, and approach of each student's particular practice. Individual studio visits and cons
- Units: 4
- Discussion, four hours; tutorial, to be arranged. Group critique/discussion of students' research. Additional tutorial meetings by arrangement with instructor. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
- Units: 4
- Seminar, three hours. Advanced topics in critical theory and study of contemporary art, with emphasis on individuals, issues, and methodologies. Possible areas of study include structuralism, deconstruction, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, commodification, and censorship. May be repeated for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C180. Letter grading.
- Units: 2 to 4
- Studio, three hours; outside study, three to nine hours. Limited to Art M.F.A. students. Selected topics in techniques related to advanced studio projects. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
Sculpture Graduate Studies
Sculpture is one of six areas of study offered in the M.F.A. art program. This area enables graduate students to develop proficiency in various analog and/or digital fabrication processes, materials, and techniques. The Sculpture Area’s basis is the exploration of three-dimensional contemporary expression where questions about context and culture at large inform every sculpture candidate’s studies. No matter the medium or method, the aim is to explore, strengthen, and focus each student's sense of personal direction in the arts.
Sculpture faculty Rodney McMillian and Hirsch Perlman serve as the primary advisors to students admitted to this area of study. Students may also work with faculty from other areas within the Department of Art or other departments across the university.
All M.F.A. students are offered the use of off-campus individual studios in the UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, located in Culver City. In addition to individual studio spaces, the studio building houses photography, sculpture, ceramics, and computer labs, as well as open spaces for exhibitions, lectures, and group critiques. Although the Department of Art does not offer graduate-level courses in the summer, the graduate studios are open year round.