Instructor: Johnathan Derry
Monday - Friday
July 28 - August 1
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

Open studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm

The class will take a learning-by-doing approach, with an emphasis on process. Students will be taught a range of fabrication and construction methods starting with a classic subtractive form technique. We will be using rigid foam board as our carving material. Its easy to use and allows for quick results. Once we’ve completed carving the form, we will coat it with a combination of plaster and fiberglass to give it a solid plaster appearance. We will also be working with found objects. Sourcing from the abundance of material that surrounds us in our every day lives. Using a series of hand and power tools, we will investigate different ways of transforming and manipulating these found objects with the end goal of combining the manipulated found objects with the more traditional subtracted form. We will discuss the multidimensional relationship between form and meaning when potentially disparate objects exist within a work. Students will explore the social, cultural and personal implications of using found and domestic objects in conjunction with the carved form.

Graduating from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in Sculpture and from the Rhode Island School of Design with a MFA in sculpture, Johnathan Derry has had numerous national shows including a solo shows at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston titled I’ve Been Again, included in the exhibition Rapture Proof at 25CPW in New York, No Mud, No Lotus at The Narrows gallery in Fall River MA, two solo shows at the Boston Sculptors Gallery where he was a member for several years, and the Provincetown Art Association. Derry was also the recipient of a full Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in 2006. His work has been collected by individuals and institutions including Brown University. In addition, Johnathan Derry has taught at several institutions such as Rhode Island School of Design, Wheaton College,Truro Center For The Arts and for more than a decade as a professor of Practice at Clark University.