Wearable Sculptures

The Art Truck at North Carolina Museum of Art

as part of Earth Day Celebration, April 23rd 12-4pm

Sculpture Foundations students from Wake Tech Community College and UNC Greensboro join together with The Art Truck at North Carolina Museum of Art on Earth Day, April 23rd to show their wearable sculptures.

Project Description - Students explored the elements of art and principles of design (form, line, shape, balance, negative space, texture, volume, etc) through a wearable form or objects. They researched the history of busts and masks in sculpture, as well as contemporary depictions of scultural portraiture and wearable art.

UNCG Assistant Professor Dane Winkler´s Sculpture Foundations students responded to the theme of conceptualized self-portrait through hand-made and crafterd adornments. Students focused on a feeling, emotion, or personality to portray in their work and considered how to represent "persona" through an extension of the body. Using primarily cardboard for constructing their wearables, students contended with ideas of emotional and physical protection, emphasis, and concealment.

WTCC Associate Professor Kelly Murray´s 3D-Design students responded to a prompt of designing a wearable object that transforms the body by extending, exaggerating, or obscuring a significant portion of the body while also illustrating emotional or non-physical ideas. Students created primarily from cardboard and paper and responded to prompts such as Echo, Cryptic, Chaos, Gravity, Grief, Vexed, and Vulnerability.