Casting an impression
Nine Harvard students recently stepped out of their comfort zones to attempt a fiery art form with which none had any experience: bronze casting. But after just one week of gallery visits, instruction, and studio time, each left with a bronze medallion and a sand-casted relief of their own design. Through studio sessions at the New England Sculpture Service, the Wintersession 2012 course “Cast in Bronze: A Workshop in Exploring and Creating Bronze Sculpture” provided the opportunity not only to create bronze sculptures, but also to better understand the practice and craft of making art. More important, according to course sponsor Suzanne Blier, the Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the sessions gave participants the chance to see such art — and the process of making it — in a new light. “One...