School of Fine Art
Sculpture Facilities
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The Sculpture Center, which houses the Academy of Art
University’s Fine Art Sculpture Department, is a 50,000 square foot
state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of San Francisco’s
museum and gallery district.
We teach aesthetic and concept development as well as a
variety of media- specific skills such as ceramics, bronze casting,
welding, /forging jewelry/metal arts, papermaking and neon. We also
have as strong figure modeling program.
The ceramic facility contains front-loading computer
programmed electric and gas kilns, a slab roller, extruder and a pug
mill. In 2007, we look forward to the addition of 20 brand new wheels
for our "Sculptural Solutions From the Wheel" program.
The Metal Arts/Jewelry students have access to a 20-ton
Hydraulic press, which nicely compliments the enameling, Lost Wax
casting and calibrated burnout kilns. The Papermaking classroom also
has a hydraulic press and vacuum table for finishing and a large
Hollander beater to assist students in making European and Asian-styled
paper.
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Sculpture students use the contemporary technique of
"ceramic shell" bronze casting. They enjoy intensive work at the AAC
Foundry in South San Francisco, where there is a 150lb metal crucible
(silicon bronze and aluminum), burnout kiln, cut-off station, burr-king
sander and sand-blaster for their artwork. Back at the 410 Bush
Sculpture Center, we house the wax studio with gating and
sprue-stations and a ceramic-shell room with a slurry tank and silica
sand stations.
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