SCULPTURE FOR THE SENSES: MATERIAL, DARKNESS, AND ACCESS

Course Description

This course has a $60 fee that will be charged the day after the Add Deadline for this quarter. Once the fee is assessed, it will not be refunded for any reason.

This course invites students to move beyond vision as the primary mode of encountering art and to explore sculpture as a fully embodied, multisensory experience. Through material experimentation, altered lighting conditions, and exercises that privilege touch, sound, weight, temperature, and spatial awareness, the course investigates how sculpture can be felt, navigated, and understood in the absence of visual dominance. Emphasizing accessibility as a generative artistic strategy rather than an afterthought, students will develop sculptural works that create multiple points of entry for diverse bodies and perceptual capacities. The course foregrounds material as an ethical and narrative agent, challenging students to think critically about how form, sensation, and care shape meaning in contemporary sculptural practice.

Open to other majors with written introduction, email kim_garcia@ucsb.edu