Lu Heintz

Critic - Experimental and Found Studies
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Lu Heintz
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts

Through a transdisciplinary practice integrating sculpture, performance and video, Lu Heintz engages feminist ethics of care, labor and technology. The work is preoccupied with material histories and artifacts such as clothing, furniture, equipment and tools—observing and reflecting the co-constitution of bodies and objects. Heintz has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, International Sculpture Center and the Sustainable Arts Foundation and has been a resident at Vermont Studio Center, MASS MoCA, Arts Letters & Numbers (NY) and Baer Art Center (Iceland). Heintz has exhibited at the RISD Museum; Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX; Strano Film Fest, Capestrano, Italy; and Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI.

Heintz balances her artistic endeavors with feminist scholarship and pedagogy. Areas of focus include gender justice, queer theory, affect, performance studies and feminist economic perspectives. Heintz has contributed essays to Book Marks (Pressing Concern Books: NY, 2020), Repair: Sustainable Design Futures (Routledge: London, 2023) and Event Scores by Artist-Parents (Rooftop Ins.: Hong Kong, 2023). Heintz’s artistic practice has grown from DIY spaces, collectives, community organizing and care webs. Social practices include collaborative zines, educational workshops, mutual aid, feminist Wikipedia editing and intersectional reading groups. She is a founding member of WARP, a mixed-media studio collective in Providence.

Courses

Fall 2023 Courses

SCULP 4721-01 - JUNIOR SCULPTURE: STUDIO I
Level Undergraduate
Unit Sculpture
Subject Sculpture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

SCULP 4721-01

JUNIOR SCULPTURE: STUDIO I

Level Undergraduate
Unit Sculpture
Subject Sculpture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Lu Heintz Location(s): Auditorium, Room 522; Metcalf Building, Room 402; Metcalf Building, Room 302; Metcalf Building, Room 206 Enrolled / Capacity: 12 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This course marks a crucial fulcrum in the pathway out of the sophomore experience and into independent work in sculpture. Thematically driven prompts will provide the scaffolding of three major work sessions that direct the conversation in the studio. These studio conversations will take the form of in-process critiques, formal group critiques, and scheduled individual meetings. Students may also expect intersecting projects with shorter timeframes when appropriate. There will be demos in advanced methods and techniques when appropriate. The visiting artist lecture series is a vital component of this course.

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


Major Requirement | BFA Sculpture

SCULP 4785-01 - RESEARCH STUDIO II: COMMUNITY, SITE, AND ETHICS
Level Undergraduate
Unit Sculpture
Subject Sculpture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

SCULP 4785-01

RESEARCH STUDIO II: COMMUNITY, SITE, AND ETHICS

Level Undergraduate
Unit Sculpture
Subject Sculpture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM Instructor(s): Lu Heintz Location(s): College Building, Room 434 Enrolled / Capacity: 12 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

In Junior Research Studio students will be guided through a series of experiences and encounters in the community, at large that help them understand the local manifestations of larger systems. Along the way, we will ask questions and learn inquiry methods that enable an understanding of how these encounters, the conversations they spawn, and assigned readings we take on help anchor, shape, and guide the aesthetic, material, and media choices we make in our artwork. A continuation of the use of research methods in the context of a studio setting is exercised individually and in groups. Reflection is used as a tool for development. Students are challenged to explore relationships between chosen materials, subject matter, processes, and display in order to establish research practices that help them make the work they want to make.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $200.00

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


Major Requirement | BFA Sculpture

Wintersession 2024 Courses

SCULP 3221-101 - THE MAKING BODY
Level Undergraduate
Unit Sculpture
Subject Sculpture
Period Wintersession 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

SCULP 3221-101

THE MAKING BODY

Level Undergraduate
Unit Sculpture
Subject Sculpture
Period Wintersession 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-01-04 to 2024-02-07
Times: THF | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM | 01/04/2024 - 01/05/2024; WTHF | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM | 01/31/2024 - 02/02/2024; THF | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM | 01/25/2024 - 01/26/2024; WTHF | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM | 01/17/2024 - 01/19/2024; THF | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM | 01/11/2024 - 01/12/2024 Instructor(s): Lu Heintz Location(s): Auditorium, Room 522 Enrolled / Capacity: 12 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Located in the Sculpture Department’s metals Foundry, this shop-based class investigates the architecture of the maker alongside the objects being made. How does our work shape us? How does the making and using of tools affect the habits, rhythms, and physiologies of bodies? In a time when implements and devices are evermore our everyday prosthetics, we can uniquely contemplate how to delineate the space of the body–its extensions and its limits. Students in this class will utilize the Foundry facility to develop and refine industrial techniques while pursuing projects interested in gesture, movement, choreography, dance, performance or sound. This is embodied praxis in production. (Some previous metals experience is recommended).

Spring 2024 Courses

FOUND 1006-23 - STUDIO: SPATIAL DYNAMICS
Level Undergraduate
Unit Experimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

FOUND 1006-23

STUDIO: SPATIAL DYNAMICS

Level Undergraduate
Unit Experimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: F | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM; F | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Instructor(s): Lu Heintz Location(s): 15 West, Roger Mandle Building, Room M01 Enrolled / Capacity: 20 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Studio: Spatial Dynamics is a studio-based inquiry into physical, spatial and temporal phenomena. The study of Spatial Dynamics is rooted in the necessity to consider forces and their effects on structure. Force is the consequence of energy. In Spatial Dynamics the energy and resultant forces are studied in actual motion, stability, and materiality. The structures of physical, spatial and temporal phenomena are studied through additive, subtractive, transformative, iterative, and ephemeral processes both analog and digital. Mediums and materials that are commonly explored and utilized have a broad range of characteristics due to their organic and synthetic sources. Most assignments utilize methods such as preliminary sketches and diagrams in research, planning, and experimental processes. Assignments reference the histories and theories of art and design and include areas of inquiry that extend to disciplines such as the sciences, music, dance, film, and theater.

Enrollment is limited to first-year undergraduate students.

Major Requirement | BFA

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Lu Heintz
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts