Study Guide

Learning outcomes

Student
- is able to make sculpture molds from different materials and make castings from different materials
- masters safe working methods

Implementation and methods of teaching

- Osaa soveltaa ja kehittää erilaisia vaihtoehtoja taiteelliseen työskentelyprosessiinsa.
- Osaa käyttää oppimaansa suunnitelmallisesti ja luovasti työssään ja soveltaa saamaansa palautetta.
- Osaa soveltaa käyttämiään menetelmiä ja analysoida teoksiaan.
- Osaa arvioida, kehittää ja laajentaa taiteellista, sisällöllistä ja teknistä osaamista.
- Osallistua alansa ammatilliseen keskusteluun

Timing and attendance

During the course, it is essential that students monitor each other's progress, and mid-term critiques/discussions are held to assess the progress of each student's work. Attendance at critiques.

Contents

Different ways of making moulds are explored, starting with simple breakable plaster moulds. Learn how to make a plaster mould that allows you to reproduce a sculpture.

During the course, you will make plaster moulds, plaster casts and small-scale type metal casts, and explore the possibilities of ceramics, glass fibre, vinamold and silicone in casting processes.

The course starts with a short theoretical discussion and sketching ideas.

Additional information for students: previous knowledge etc.

Basics of Sculture studies.

Assessment scale

1-5

Failed (0)

- Less than 80% attendance in classes and teaching sessions
- Insufficient accomplishment of assignments
- Ignoring instructions on how to work in classrooms and safety at work
- Non-attendance at final discussion

Assessment criteria: level 1 (assessment scale 1–5)

- Can work according to instructions
- Can generate ideas for and realise works of art
- Can identify and describe methods of making art in a guided way
- Can participate in guided learning discussions
- Can search for professional information in his/her field

Assessment criteria: level 3 (assessment scale 1–5)

- Can apply a wide range of options to their artistic work process
- Can create artworks based on their ideas in a guided and independent way and develop their work based on feedback
- Can independently identify and compare the methods of artistic creation used
- Can evaluate and justify their skills and set artistic, content-related and technical development objectives
- Able to follow and describe the professional debate in their field

Assessment criteria: level 5 (assessment scale 1–5)

- Can apply and develop a variety of options for their artistic work process
- Can use what they have learned in a planned and creative way in their work and apply the feedback they receive
- Can apply the methods they use and analyse works
- Able to assess, develop and extend artistic, content and technical competence
- Participate in professional debates in their field