In pursuit of a B.F.A., students of Interdisciplinary Sculpture develop the conceptual content of their work concurrently with practical, hands-on knowledge of materials and fabrication techniques, enabling them to produce work relevant to their personal vision. Classes offered within the department combine theory and practice and encourage students to develop transdisciplinary, multimedia approaches to their work and invent collaborations with new audiences and communities. Through this innovative curriculum, students are exposed to a broad range of creative possibilities within the material, spatial, and non-static arts and develop a range of conceptual skills and strategies that allow them to realize content in inventive ways. Students explore both experimental and established approaches to art making.
Courses within the department allow students to build a solid base of constructive and technical skills by working in such areas as wood, metal fabrication, mold-making, casting, assembling, laser cutting, 3D printing, rapid-prototyping, welding, carving, and fabrication. Students are encouraged to further explore content in video installation, performance, time-based art, photo-sculpture hybrids, 3D computing, and other newer genres, and are challenged to use these skills to make work that is relevant in our complex, diverse, and ever-changing global culture. Our accomplished faculty provides the theoretical and historical framework to assist majors in developing a sophisticated critical/self-analytical awareness of their practice, and its place within the larger culture.
Interdisciplinary Sculpture students are encouraged to develop technical mastery, conceptual sophistication, and an understanding of newer and emerging genres; to explore contemporary issues, ideas, and technologies; and to create a practice that recognizes the past while envisioning the future.
A guiding spirit or a source of inspiration, often in the form of dialogue, engages one to muse and become absorbed in self- and other-referential thought. In this studio class students work, converse, and imagine with targeted audiences from areas outside the immediate MICA community in a concerted effort to take an active, collaborative, and reciprocal role in community engagement. Students develop ideas for their proposed projects after extensively researching possibilities and conducting self-directed outreach with a given group. Recent projects have worked with the Men’s Center in East Baltimore, the Water Treatment Plant in Baltimore, and Baltimore Act Up. Students are encouraged to work collaboratively with the understanding that their artwork will become a critical voice in the engagement with and empowerment of the public sphere. Projects may take the form of site-specific work in or around the City of Baltimore, community collaborations, performances, tours, or other types of interventions.
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