About the Sculpture Program

Program Overview

The School’s Sculpture emphasis is designed to provide training for students to become professional artists and or prepare them for further study at the graduate level. The program has the objective of providing students a program which is designed to develop their perceptual sensitivity, aesthetic judgment, creative resourcefulness, and provides the skills necessary to express themselves. The area seeks to train artists who specialize in three-dimensional expression and sensory kinesthetics.

The sculpture area provides an environment that encourages students to explore sculptural ideas through research, process and materials and promotes art making as a personal, intellectual, discipline-based, communicative activity. At the undergraduate level students are exposed to historical and contemporary precedence in art making and are taught to think independently to gain an understanding of a wide range of sculptural concerns and processes. As students progress through the undergraduate program our goal is to have their work become increasingly self motivated and self directed. We consider sculpture an area encompassing both traditional media and experimental, conceptual work in new media, installation and performance. Our program strives to give students the freedom to experiment and encourages cross-disciplinary and collaborative practice.

Program Faculty

Richard Keely, Sculpture

Professor Emeritus of Scultpure
rkeely@sdsu.edu
View Richard Keely's Bio + Portfolio

Program Facilities

Sculpture Facilities

Sculpture Ferrous Metals Shop

This 2000+ square foot space is available to all students trained by faculty to use the equipment. It is outfitted with a full array of cutting, bending and shaping machinery that includes:

a lathe
step shear
hydraulic pipe and tube bending machinery
computer operated trace cutter
plasma cutter
mig, tig and oxyacetylene welding
an English Wheel
and complete forging equipment with an industrial grade power hammer and a comprehensive casting facility for bronze, iron and aluminum.

3D Woodworking Shop

This facility is available to all students trained by faculty to use the equipment.

1000+ square feet of space
a table saw
3 band saws
2 drill presses
panel saw
jigsaw
miter saw
belt, disc and spindle sanders
additional bench room with solid wood table tops and vices

Digital Fabrication Printers, Computing Labs, and Software

Roland MDX-40 rapid prototyper
Roland LPX-60 3D laser scanner
plasma cutter
non-ferrous metals laser cutter
die cut ‘printing’ (screen printing room 481)
CNC router (accommodates full sheet sizes)
computing labs equipped with full range of industry-standard design and 3D software, including Adobe Creative Cloud, Rhino 3D, Flamingo, SketchUp Pro, Podium, AutoCAD, Revit, and Maya

Visit the FLab page to learn more.

Full Interdisciplinary Facilities

Interested in interdisciplinary work across mediums? Visit our comprehensive facilities page to see all the resources we have available to students within the School of Art + Design.

Visiting Artists