BFA
Sculpture
From traditional to experimental, bring shape to your ideas.
An inclusive, diverse, and ever-changing discipline.
Our Sculpture program honors traditional skills and techniques while encouraging experimental ideas and the exploration of new media. Addressing contemporary concerns, you’ll build your practice making objects, site-specific work, installation art, inter/multimedia and video projects.
Outstanding Facilities + Resources
The Visual Arts Building holds more than 160,000 square feet of workspace with superb studio environments and state-of-the-art software, hardware, and equipment to match your creative ambition.
The printmaking, wood, and metal fabrication studios are among the best equipped in the country.
Clay, glass, bronze, plastics, and finishing areas create an ideal environment for experimenting with object making in a variety of media.
Sophisticated digital and audiovisual equipment and spaces allow for work in video, light, sound, digital fabrication, and interactive multimedia.
Explore 3D and Digital
Sculpture classes cover art-making in three dimensions and digitally.
Making Sculpture electives include:
- Intro to Wood
- Direct Metal
- Ceramics or Bronze
- Multiples
While Time-Based Performance Sculpture electives include:
- Performance
- Video or Sound
- Theater of the Oppressed
- Arts for Social Change
“Sculpture at Purchase is multidisciplinary—engaging traditional and new genre practices. Our wood, metal, ceramic and bronze casting facilities are state of the art and courses in performance, social practice, installation, and digital media round out an exciting program that produces socially conscious global citizens.” — Rachel Owens