Instructor: Jilaine Jones
Monday - Friday
July 15 - 19
9am - 1pm
5 sessions

Open Studio: Mon - Thurs, 1 - 4pm

This workshop will be oriented around two principal ideas coexisting in sculpture, and the plan of activity focuses on developing these ideas as much as on technique. The qualities of place and movement compare stillness, structure, and space, with action, reaction, internal momentum. This central idea, taken up by the individual perspective of each participant, will be investigating these two ideas in one sculpture, primarily by two techniques:  welding steel then  using plaster. The first morning we will look at examples together through images; and then conversation and a three-dimensional sketch using mixed media and the studio space. This should initiate forming each participant's  plan. The teaching of simple welding (by stick and MIG methods) to join steel rods together will begin the sculptures with a linear steel structure. This will then be combined and reacted to with plaster. Group discussion with the instructor of how each idea is working sculpturally will happen
intermittently.

Steel and Plaster are provided in the materials fee. Click below for additional materials to bring.

Jilaine Jones is a sculptor teaching at the New York Studio School since 2002. Solo exhibitions include New York Studio School, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries and Paul Mellon Art Center. Her work was included in the 2016 DeCordova Biennial and outdoor sculpture exhibitions at Chesterwood. Jones has received a Connecticut Commission Fellowship for Sculpture and a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant. She has participated in residency fellowships including Triangle Arts Association, Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Edward Albee Foundation, Haystack School of Crafts, and Yaddo.