Queer Sculpture (ARTSTUDI 150N)

This hands-on, studio-based course explores queer as a radical strategy for art-making and world-building. Through sculpture, students will engage themes such as utopic futurity, anti-assimilation, failure, abstraction, drag, camp, and chosen kinship. Emphasizing refusal rather than inclusion, the course investigates how queer artists subvert dominant norms and reinvent conventional forms. Students will create original artworks, participate in critiques, discuss critical texts, and visit local LGBTQ archives. Guest artists will offer insight into contemporary queer practices across material and conceptual boundaries.