Sculpture
Challenge paradigms and explore diverse perspectives
YSU's Sculpture area is part of the Bachelor of the Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Studio Art, Interdisciplinary Studio Arts degree. The program emphasizes a broad foundation of technical, critical, and professional skills. You’ll grow as an artist by focusing on the development of strong conceptual ideas and personal approaches linked with the informed use of media and technique. The Sculpture curriculum places strong emphasis on understanding context—including cultural, historical, political, and personal—and encourages experimentation, conceptual rigor, and interdisciplinary risk taking. By offering a rich mix of concept, material, and process, you’ll gain a thorough knowledge and understanding of a full range of contemporary art practices and critical theory in sculpture.
You’ll be exposed to traditional materials and processes, including carving, clay modeling, welding fabrication, assemblage, mold making, and bronze casting, as well as new technologies, such as 3D digital production, rapid-prototyping, video, and new media. You’ll be encouraged to further explore content in installation, performance, time-based art, 3D computing, ecological or science-based work, and other new genres.
Facilities
YSU’s Sculpture area offers one of the largest facilities in the state, with open studio hours seven days a week. With over 6,000 square feet of studio space spanning two floors, the facilities include separate and completely equipped areas for wheel throwing, hand building, glaze mixing, mold making and slip casting, clay mixing, plaster work, and documenting artwork.
Various firing possibilities are available, with two internal kiln rooms and a gated and covered external kiln area. The sculpture studio also includes the following vented labs: a spray room, a fully stocked glaze lab, a clay mixing lab, and three kiln rooms that include computer-controlled electric kilns and gas and atmospheric kilns with a pit firing area. Additional industry-standard technologies and equipment include 3D digital printing, laser cutters, and CNC mills.
Exhibition spaces
When the time comes for you to display your work you’ll have the opportunity to exhibit solo, group, or experimental projects in the McDonough Museum of Art, the Judith Rae Solomon Gallery, or our Student Project Gallery.
Meet our faculty
Our dedicated and professionally involved faculty are actively engaged in helping Interdisciplinary Studio Arts students successfully transition into positions with regional and national creative industries or graduate programs.
