Students pursue individual work under advisement of resident faculty, visiting artists and critics during the semester. Individual objectives are clarified and professional practices are discussed. Group interaction and discussions are expected.

Students are pre-registered for this course by the department; registration is not available in Workday. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Sculpture Students.

Major Requirement | MFA Sculpture

Textiles: On Intersectional Being & Thinking is an intensive study of critical issues in textiles. This hands-on experimental & hybridized course introduces senior undergrad students and graduate students to key figures, texts and concepts, interweaving studio visits, critique and various forms of visual culture together. Bi-Weekly modules are designed to help students build hybrid art practices. The course asks students to look at the weird and untenable, odd, and often unconsidered crossovers found at the intersection of textiles, performance and everyday life. As such students will hybridize their studio & research practices while engaging a wide variety of synthetic & natural materials such as burial attire, cybernetics, installations, runways, and anything and everything interdisciplinarily textile. In this course students explore variety and diversity as a way of processing and ultimately as a way of seeing their work in plurality. The course is hybrid. The material is too. Part Studio – Part Seminar – students are asked to think and be intersectional.

Open to Senior or Graduate Students.

Elective

This Graduate Studio course attends to three foundational texts Edward Glissant: Poetics of Relation, Gaston Bachelard: The Poetics of Space, and Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, and is an exploratory course in which graduate students from various Fine Arts departments across RISD pursue and discuss their existing practices in a setting that reflects, as closely as possible, the interdisciplinary and intersectional conversations taking place around advanced art practices today. The course is broken into three, four-week modules situated along these texts as inter- / trans- / multi-disciplinary forms of research and production. This Studio-based course focuses holistically on a balance of seminar components (readings, screenings, and discussions) interwoven with studio visits, and critique, in order to grow graduate students' understanding of how their work functions across a variety of disciplines. The course is intended to allow students to challenge how their work will make meaning in art worlds in which a variety of intersectional discourses and disciplinary histories inform, resist and reshape one another, as well as to provide an opportunity for all students whose work bridges multi disciplines (including performance and post-studio approaches) to learn from one another and from faculty capable of addressing these sorts of practices.

Offered as PAINT-230G and IDISC-230G.

Please contact the instructor for permission to register. Preference will be given to Graduate Painting, Sculpture or Textiles Students.

Elective

This Graduate Studio course attends to three foundational texts Edward Glissant: Poetics of Relation, Gaston Bachelard: The Poetics of Space, and Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, and is an exploratory course in which graduate students from various Fine Arts departments across RISD pursue and discuss their existing practices in a setting that reflects, as closely as possible, the interdisciplinary and intersectional conversations taking place around advanced art practices today. The course is broken into three, four-week modules situated along these texts as inter- / trans- / multi-disciplinary forms of research and production. This Studio-based course focuses holistically on a balance of seminar components (readings, screenings, and discussions) interwoven with studio visits, and critique, in order to grow graduate students' understanding of how their work functions across a variety of disciplines. The course is intended to allow students to challenge how their work will make meaning in art worlds in which a variety of intersectional discourses and disciplinary histories inform, resist and reshape one another, as well as to provide an opportunity for all students whose work bridges multi disciplines (including performance and post-studio approaches) to learn from one another and from faculty capable of addressing these sorts of practices.

Offered as PAINT-230G and IDISC-230G.

Please contact the instructor for permission to register. Preference will be given to Graduate Painting, Sculpture or Textiles Students.

Elective

Advanced Critical Issues Seminar 2 introduces a rigorous theoretical framework for thinking and writing about contemporary sculpture practice. Each seminar develops from a specific theme drawing on research from Grad Critical Issues 1, current debates in the field and contemporary events. Past seminars include: Artificial Natures, Precarious Relations, Frankenstein and Crime, Vanishing Points, as examples. Trespassing across sculpture, performance, cinema, fiction, feminist, queer, race and political theory and back again, we will address writings by Walter Benjamin, Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine, Jacques Rancire (as examples) in conversation with contemporary artists writings and projects to cultivate a conceptual grammar to extend to our studio practice. Approaching issues in contemporary sculpture through these discursive perspectives generates new strategies simultaneously material, conceptual, and critical.

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Sculpture Students.

Major Requirement | MFA Sculpture

This Graduate Studio course attends to three foundational texts Edward Glissant: Poetics of Relation, Gaston Bachelard: The Poetics of Space, and Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, and is an exploratory course in which graduate students from various Fine Arts departments across RISD pursue and discuss their existing practices in a setting that reflects, as closely as possible, the interdisciplinary and intersectional conversations taking place around advanced art practices today. The course is broken into three, four-week modules situated along these texts as inter- / trans- / multi-disciplinary forms of research and production. This Studio-based course focuses holistically on a balance of seminar components (readings, screenings, and discussions) interwoven with studio visits, and critique, in order to grow graduate students' understanding of how their work functions across a variety of disciplines. The course is intended to allow students to challenge how their work will make meaning in art worlds in which a variety of intersectional discourses and disciplinary histories inform, resist and reshape one another, as well as to provide an opportunity for all students whose work bridges multi disciplines (including performance and post-studio approaches) to learn from one another and from faculty capable of addressing these sorts of practices.

Offered as PAINT-230G and IDISC-230G.

Open to Graduate Students only.

Elective

This Graduate Studio course attends to three foundational texts Edward Glissant: Poetics of Relation, Gaston Bachelard: The Poetics of Space, and Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, and is an exploratory course in which graduate students from various Fine Arts departments across RISD pursue and discuss their existing practices in a setting that reflects, as closely as possible, the interdisciplinary and intersectional conversations taking place around advanced art practices today. The course is broken into three, four-week modules situated along these texts as inter- / trans- / multi-disciplinary forms of research and production. This Studio-based course focuses holistically on a balance of seminar components (readings, screenings, and discussions) interwoven with studio visits, and critique, in order to grow graduate students' understanding of how their work functions across a variety of disciplines. The course is intended to allow students to challenge how their work will make meaning in art worlds in which a variety of intersectional discourses and disciplinary histories inform, resist and reshape one another, as well as to provide an opportunity for all students whose work bridges multi disciplines (including performance and post-studio approaches) to learn from one another and from faculty capable of addressing these sorts of practices.

Offered as PAINT-230G and IDISC-230G.

Open to Graduate Students only.

Elective

Open(ed) Structure(s): Collaboration Station pairs textiles and sculpture students together, asking them to develop collaborative works. Three major projects make up the scaffolding of the course; included in these are Week 4, Week 8, and Week 12 critiques (all projects are meant to be completed in collaboration). These projects examine the relationships between each students’ respective mediums and the interwoven possibilities of using both together. Interstitial in nature, the course asks students to consider the intersectional methods used by contemporary artists today and through in-class discussion, film screenings, texts, lectures, studio visits, and critique, students are pushed to process an almost endless cache of source material, use these materials as inspiration, and create thoughtfully considered art. This class is a hands-on studio elective that explores the material overlaps between sculpture and textiles. The studio looks at “body” as a site to explore volume, weight, and all things constructed. This course is for ambitious Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate students who want to expand the discussion around intersectionality and interdisciplinarity between the Sculpture and Textiles Departments and specifically in their own practices.
 

Elective

Open(ed) Structure(s): Collaboration Station pairs textiles and sculpture students together, asking them to develop collaborative works. Three major projects make up the scaffolding of the course; included in these are Week 4, Week 8, and Week 12 critiques (all projects are meant to be completed in collaboration). These projects examine the relationships between each students’ respective mediums and the interwoven possibilities of using both together. Interstitial in nature, the course asks students to consider the intersectional methods used by contemporary artists today and through in-class discussion, film screenings, texts, lectures, studio visits, and critique, students are pushed to process an almost endless cache of source material, use these materials as inspiration, and create thoughtfully considered art. This class is a hands-on studio elective that explores the material overlaps between sculpture and textiles. The studio looks at “body” as a site to explore volume, weight, and all things constructed. This course is for ambitious Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate students who want to expand the discussion around intersectionality and interdisciplinarity between the Sculpture and Textiles Departments and specifically in their own practices.
 

Elective