Professor Donna Stack Telephone: 509-963-3135 Email: stackd@cwu.edu Professors' website

Students who study sculpture at CWU interact with young and enthusiastic faculty professionally engaged in the expanded field of sculpture.

Program Philosophy

The philosophy of the Sculpture area at Central Washington University is concerned with exploring relationships between form, process, material, transformation, context and content. Students are encouraged to take an investigative approach to experiencing and creating within a multi-faceted spatial context. Undergraduate students are exposed to historical and contemporary theories and practices. They discover early on the traditional processes of sculpture, while incorporating a contemporaneous social and cultural aesthetic. Along with these traditional processes, there is emphasis on craftsmanship and technique. This equips the students with the ability to address and further explore sculpture in a broader spatial context, which include using non-traditional materials and processes, questioning the role of the object as communicator and questioning sculpture's relationship to space/environment/body/viewer/self. The sculpture curriculum is developed in such a way as to encourage the student to be critical thinkers and makers. This is accomplished through a series of readings/discussions, critiques, slide lectures, videos and artist research papers/presentations. Graduate students work closely with area faculty. They are encouraged to develop a mature interdisciplinary body of work incorporated into an expanded three-dimensional field.

Program Facilities

There are five equipped sections within the sculpture area: plaster/mold making, wood, general fabrication, metals and ventilated spray booth. All areas have been upgraded with current regulatory air ventilation and exhaust systems.

Equipment within the Sculpture Areas include: three-bin plaster sink, 2 - vertical band saws (wood and metal), miter chop saw, 2 - drill presses (wood and metal), disk/belt sander, flexible shaft buffer/grinder, bench grinder, 2 - MIG welders, 3 - oxy-acetylene welding stations, bead blaster, gas forge, plasma cutter, jump shear, metal cutting horizontal band saw, metal cutting electric hack saw, table saw, electric kiln, slot hood ventilation for plastic pours, portable swivel arm exhaust for welding processes and compressed air stations.

The Sculpture Area also houses a number of power hand tools including pneumatic die and angle grinders, electric angle grinders, jig saws, cordless and electric drills, and palm sanders.

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