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3000 Level Fiber and Material Studies Course
Descriptions
FIBER 3001
Dimensional Forms II
This course provides a basis of conceptual, historical, and technical
information focusing on strategies for constructing three-dimensional
forms from pliable fiber processes and materials. A range of conventional
and nonconventional materials, structuring possibilities, found objects,
and mixed-media are used to explore concepts of space, volume and mass,
gravity and weight, light, scale, tension, and flexibility. Emphasis
is on the development of strong individual direction in conjunction
with the discussion of historic and contemporary issues. both group
and individual critiques are integral to this course.
FIBER 3002
Woven Structure and Alternative Media
This course develops a woven vocabulary using multi-harness looms. Forms
and images are examined through the study of conceptual problems including
color theory and composition, and additional technical possibilities.
Content is explored in the development of individual direction and in
relationship to the discussion of historical and contemporary textiles
and other works of art. Prerequisite: FIBER 2002.
FIBER 3003
Paint on Fabric II
This course allows students to pursue an advanced investigation of concept
and technique in hand-painted fabric. The development of individual
direction is strongly encouraged in relationship to historic precedent
and contemporary concerns.
FIBER 3004
Print for Fabric and Alternative Materials II
This course allows students to pursue an advanced investigation of concept
and technique in hand-printed fabric. The development of individual
direction is strongly encouraged in relationship to historic precedent
and contemporary concerns. Prerequisite: FIBER 2004.
FIBER 3005
Embellishment II
Students pursue advanced conceptual concerns and a strong personal direction
while continuing to develop a technical vocabulary. Individual and group
critiques encourage individual direction and develop an ongoing dialogue
about contemporary issues. Prerequisite: FIBER 2005.
FIBER 3007
Papermaking II
This course offers the student an opportunity to continue an in-depth
exploration of hand papermaking. Emphasis is on the development of conceptual
concerns and strong individual direction while continuing to investigate
an expanded technical vocabulary. Prerequisite: FIBER 2007.
FIBER 3010
Installation: Material and Context
This course examines the transformation and definition of space through
the use of materials including hard and soft, flexible, found and alternative
and the meanings these materials invoke. The implications of inter-dependency,
rearrangement, and responsiveness to time within an environment are
considered. The concept of installation includes relationships of objects,
environments, and site-specific works, and will examine a range of spaces:
public/private, interior/exterior, and urban/rural. Concepts are developed
through research, material investigations, and developments of both
two- and three-dimensional explorations. Emphasis is placed on both
collaborative and individual direction.FIBER 3012
FIBER 3012
Propaganda and Decoration
Propaganda, or the advancement of one’s message (be it political
or personal), will be explored through the production of the decorative.
Central to this course are the employment, subversion and examination
of traditional notions of decoration in relation to historical and contemporary
methods of propaganda. Message and medium are stressed. Multiple, on-site
and guerrilla printing are used to produce work sited for domestic,
public, interior or exterior surfaces. Students are encouraged to develop
strong individual directions and to investigate sites, contexts and
methods of placement of their work. This class will utilize screen printing
as a tool to produce works with an agenda of communication and decoration—posters
or place mats, toilet paper or tea cozies, printed fabrics, garments,
signage and advertising, domestic and public surfaces. Research, historical
investigations, and field trips are an important component to this class.
Advanced techniques will be covered, including multi-colored and registered
printing, repeat pattern printing for fabric, printing on fabric, paper,
alternative materials, and printing on site.
FIBER 3013
The Absurdist Laboratory
This course is rooted in the experimentation of materials and conceptual
possibilities. Dyes and pigments, patination, and reactive processes
on cloth and alternative surfaces will be explored materially, and in
conjunction with digital imaging. Two-dimensional links will be made
to three-dimensional constructions. The materials and forms of high
art, as well as low-brow everyday methods and materials, will be considered.
Readings and lecture presentations will draw on the methods of investigation
utilized by Fluxus, Dada, and Surrealist artists, writers, and musicians.
These historical movements were laboratories that unified art and life
in which chance and experimentation were essential aspects.
FIBER 3015
Materiality, the Body, and Motion
This course gives students an approach to fiber materials and the physical
body in the context of interdisciplinary time based art forms. Both
technique-based and theoretical workshops will provide diverse orientations
towards the construction and layering of the material object and its
relationship to movement and site. Individual and collaborative practices
will be considered within the forms of installation, and performance.
The gallery, the theater, and alternative environments will be examined
as sites for work. Ideas about absence and presence of both materiality
and motion will be considered throughout. Individual and group critiques,
slide lectures about historical and contemporary forms and issues, and
class discussions will be an integral part of the class.
FIBER 3025
Studio Stuff:
The Paradigm of Collecting
This course will explore strategies for collecting things (not necessarily
of any particular monetary value) to be used as conceptual impetus,
subject matter, and/or physical material in the studio. The class will
include discussions of the nature of classification and organization;
the nature of attraction based on memory, physicality, and visual language;
and the relationship of time and distance to collection. Field trips
to a variety of alternative sites will be an integral part of this class,
including factories, thrift shops, antique shops, rural settings, natural
landscapes, flea markets, etc. The class will also visit artists’
studios (e.g., The Roger Brown Study Collection) in which the act of
collecting has been a significant aspect of their work. A detailed journal
documenting the process of collecting will be developed in conjunction
with studio work that synthesizes both the experience and the material.
FIBER 3030
Time, Materical, and The Everyday
Diverse aspects of material studies (personal, social, political, economic,
visual, and formal) will be considered in this course, working from
forms and structures that are hand-constructed, as well as everyday
found objects. The class will begin with a series of exercises exploring
the visual possibilities of recording time and movement in repetitive
everyday actions. Hand processes of netting, crochet, and other intertwining
techniques will be introduced through the language and systems of both
textiles and the digital. Readings and visiting artists will present
a range of ideas about art and the everyday, opening up dialogue about
forms and formats of installation and documentation.
FIBER 3031
Material Humor
This course will explore the strategies of giving material form to humor,
as in the example of a giant fan made of soft fabric; or a dress so
tall and thin that the only person who could wear it would have to be
seven feet tall with an eight inch waist; or a bust carved out of an
aspirin. The presence of tangible material form gives humor a more serious,
undeniable, and confrontational edge. Explorations will include questions
of scale, the disparity of materials to form, examinations of the cultural
context of processes, and contradictions in making. Discussions will
cover different types of humor, how humor works, how it can be used
as a tool for personal expression, for social and political change,
and for cathartic release. Group and individual critiques, as well as
discussions of historical and contemporary possibilities, are an important
part of this course.
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