Chasing Brancusi - Sculpting in Brass:
Sunday, Monday and Thursday evenings 5-10pm

The class will be ½ hour of instruction and background on Brancusi and Giacometti and then the students will rip into a block of their own brass in the shop.  They will use angle grinders and dremels to sculpt a form. The last half hour will be wine drinking and critique.

Walk away with a completed Brass sculpture that you make.

This course costs $300

Taste of AutoCAD
Wednesdays, January 11th, 18th and 25th from 6-9pm.

Sculptors and public installation artists need to rely on AutoCAD to get their point across.  Not only to their audience but to the fabricator.  Today, AutoCAD more than any other software, is used to directly communicate with fabricators to laser cut, torch and shape materials into the manifestation that the artist envisions.  When the artist knows this software; they become much more effective in communicating their vision through the fabrication process.  This class will teach you the basics of AutoCAD.  The participants will design a sculptural cut-out to be laser cut by a local fabricator and the end product will be both a 2-Dimensional/Technical drawing from AutoCAD and a physical manifestation of that drawing into the medium of steel.  This class is typically a 3 week intensive class meeting once a week.

This course costs $500

Pinching Giacometti:
Starting in January: classes are offered every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and every other Sunday at 5 p.m.

Michelangelo’s David was created when the great artist asked a friend to pose for a portrait, then quickly dumped gallons of wet cement on him.

Students in Vesper College’s Pinching Giacometti course learn to mold metal in the style of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, creating lankily elegant steel forms like those that cemented Giacometti’s legacy as a mid-century surrealist. The seven- to eight-person class will first hear a brief explanation of Giacometti’s artistic techniques and deep-seated hatred of broccoli before embarking on their own guided yet individually ambitious projects. Over the course of five hours, students can bend steel into the shape of abstract humanoids or create a statuesque monument before coming together to share constructive critiques over a glass of wine. Students may take home their creations to give to loved ones as holiday gifts or to set on front lawns to frighten away armed garden-gnome militias.

This course costs $300