Sculpture Course Materials List

Instructor: Lynn Aldrich

Getting Started and What to Bring

Concept:
Think about metaphors or ideas that can be expressed through form and material. Make notes, lists, collect images of sculpture you like, and make sketches.

Construction:
1. Material: Bring a large quantity of two or three construction materials you like – things you have found, collected or purchased (this can mean fabrics, plastics, aluminum sheets, wood pieces, etc. or objects in a quantity like plastic water bottles, roofing shingles, toy boats, electrical wire, etc. It's really unlimited, but be choosy and only bring a good amount of two or three materials that you feel excited about.)

2. Support: Make sketches of forms you might imagine with this material. Does your piece need some kind of armature that will sit on the floor or a table or hang from the wall? Bring what you want to attach the material to. Or do you want to build your form “from the ground up”?

3. Method: Bring (or ship--whatever is less hassle and expense for you) tools and devices for attaching things to each other or to a support such as wire and wire snips, drill, bits, screws or bolts, riveter and rivets, metal shears, aluminum tubes, hack saw, steel rods (not over ¼ diameter), tapes, Velcro, adhesives, wood pieces, jig saw, etc.

4. Scale: How large will it be? Do you plan on discarding it or shipping it or carrying it home after the workshop week?

5. Surface: Do you want to apply paint, textured material or other surface treatments to the form or to sections of the form? Then you will need to bring what you expect you will need like paint, brushes, sandpaper, scissors, glue, epoxy, etc.

Travel Tip:
If you're arriving by plane, click here for a list of items that should be shipped rather than packed. Items can be shipped to:

St. John's College
Conference Services, Attn: The Glen Workshop
1160 Camino Cruz Blanca
Santa Fe , NM 87501-4599

Please don't send packages that will arrive more than four or five days before the start of the event, and please let us know if you are shipping something so we can advise conference services.

We suggest UPS to guarantee your items will get to you on time. Keep in mind that items needing to be shipped home must be sent from the campus mailroom by 5 pm on Friday the 31st, the second-to-last day of class. The mailroom is closed Saturday and Sunday.