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Kootenay Studio Arts at Selkirk College 606 Victoria Street

Nelson, BC

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Every precaution is taken to ensure that portfolios are handled with care. KSA does not accept responsibility for any loss or damage to submitted materials. All portfolios that the school has not been able to return to applicants by November 15 will be recycled.

Program Courses

CAST 122 - DRAWING AND DESIGN FOR METAL CASTING

This course provides students with a basic understanding of Design and Visual Communication skills required to develop and present concepts that may be realized in Cast Molten Metal. Students will gain the ability to integrate 2D/3D concepts and to combine aesthetics with function when articulating their creative visions ‘on paper’ as an adjunct to working with Cast Metal.

CAST 124 - HOW TO CAST BRONZE

Students will design, sculpt, mold and then cast their own unique creations in bronze. In this 5 week intensive course through various assignments, students will learn how to design and sculpt their

ideas in clay, mold them in rubber, wax, ceramic shell and then bronze. Various bronze finishing techniques

will be taught as well as some marketing.

CAST 126 - EXPLORATION OF BRONZE

Students will learn to explore their ideas in clay with more involved processes. In this 5-week intensive course, students will learn more advanced molding techniques and so can create more involved and intricate sculptures. At the end of this course students will visit foundries and working artists in their studios. Students will leave this course with basic casting and marketing skills to further their own explorations.

CAST 128 - SCULPTURAL MODELING IN CLAY

This is a 15 week course designed to give students skills in working with oil based clay. Through in class exercises, demos and assignments, students will learn to use various tools and techniques to Develop an understanding of three dimensional form through modeling in clay.

selkirk.ca/programs

Contacts

CAROL RIDGE

Enrolment Officer

Phone: 250.365.7292 ext 21324 Direct: 250.365.1324

Email: cridge@selkirk.ca

KOOTENAY STUDIO ARTS Program Contact

Phone: 877.552.2821

Email: arts@selkirk.ca

DARYL JOLLY

School Chair

Phone: 250.352.6601 ext 11394 Direct: 250.505.1394

Email: djolly@selkirk.ca

LAURA WHITE

Jewelry Instructor/Coordinator Phone: 250.352.2821 ext 13296 Email: lwhite@selkirk.ca

BRONZE CASTING STUDIO

selkirk.ca/bronze-casting

Selkirk College Academic Calendar 2018-19

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