At our School you will find a total focus on your creative development
Student profile
Emily Houghton
Nationality:
British
Course:
Drama Foundation
Where are they now?
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London
Sculpture Summer School
Our sculpture summer school lasts for one week (5 days) and runs three times throughout the summer:
- Monday 13th July - Friday 18th July
- Monday 3rd August - Friday 8th August
- Monday 18th August - Friday 22nd August.
Course outline:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| am | African Sculpture workshop: - African masks & headdresses - Introduction to African Sculpture - Tutor demo - Students casting faces in mod rock | Soapstone Carving workshop: - Introduction to sculpture using natural forms: Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth - Tutor demo - Students soapstone carving | Egyptian Art workshop: - Introduction to Egyptian Art - Tutor demo - Workshop: study Hieroglyphics and make a sculpture | Egyptian Art workshop: - Make an artefact - Tutor demo: how to make a piece out of clay, wood and wire - Students make piece of their own | Wire Sculptures workshop: - Figures and movement: wire sculptures + mod rock - Introduction to Germaine Richier Alberto Giacometti |
| pm | - African masks & headdresses - Tutor demo - Students decorating their faces / masks | Students continue their carvings | Half day excursion: | - Students decorate artefact and create an environment to display piece - Group exhibition of artefacts | - Introduction to Walter Bodner and Alexander Calder - Drawings in space using wire: create a wire circus |
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