Manon Wada is an interdisciplinary artist originally from and currently based in New York City on Canarsie Munsee Lenape land. Her art practice takes form as installation, sculpture and video, which frequently intersects with poetry. In tandem she often works collaboratively and on socially engaged, community-based art projects.
She earned her MFA in Sculpture at RISD and her BFA in Community Arts at California College of the Arts. Wada has been awarded grants for projects including Counternarratives of Herstory Census, HEARTH Community Art Garden Project and Visible Voices. She has been an artist in residence at Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC, ComPeung in Doi Saket, Thailand and A Place of Her Own in San Francisco, CA.
Her work has been exhibited at Border Project Space in Brooklyn and Buffalo Riverworks, NY, at the Whitney Center for the Arts in Pittsfield, MA, Rumpueng Community Art Space in Chiang Mai, Thailand and such San Francisco Bay Area venues as Thoreau Center for Sustainability, SOMArts Cultural Center and Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. She is a member of the Asian American Women Artists Association.
This course marks a crucial fulcrum in the pathway out of the sophomore experience and into independent work in sculpture. Thematically driven prompts will provide the scaffolding of three major work sessions that direct the conversation in the studio. These studio conversations will take the form of in-process critiques, formal group critiques, and scheduled individual meetings. Students may also expect intersecting projects with shorter timeframes when appropriate. There will be demos in advanced methods and techniques when appropriate. The visiting artist lecture series is a vital component of this course.
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department; registration is not available in Workday. Enrollment is limited to Junior Sculpture Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Sculpture
SCULP 4785-01 - RESEARCH STUDIO II: COMMUNITY, SITE, AND ETHICS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitSculpture
Subject Sculpture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
SCULP 4785-01
RESEARCH STUDIO II: COMMUNITY, SITE, AND ETHICS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitSculpture
Subject Sculpture
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PMInstructor(s): Manon WadaEnrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
In Junior Research Studio students will be guided through a series of experiences and encounters in the community, at large that help them understand the local manifestations of larger systems. Along the way, we will ask questions and learn inquiry methods that enable an understanding of how these encounters, the conversations they spawn, and assigned readings we take on help anchor, shape, and guide the aesthetic, material, and media choices we make in our artwork. A continuation of the use of research methods in the context of a studio setting is exercised individually and in groups. Reflection is used as a tool for development. Students are challenged to explore relationships between chosen materials, subject matter, processes, and display in order to establish research practices that help them make the work they want to make.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $200.00
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department; registration is not available in Workday. Enrollment is limited to Junior Sculpture Students.
