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Major Sculpture + Expanded Media

I’m obsessed with the connected relationship between concept and hands-on work.

Interdisciplinary is in

Also called SEM, sculpture is a hybrid practice that links materials with interactive and time-based technologies. With guidance and experimentation, you’ll find your place and point-of-view. You’ll learn how to integrate ideas and forms from the field of sculpture, past and present. You’ll find your own path through specializing or combining a variety of processes.

Why SEM at CIA?

FOREST OF MEMORIES

This exhibition was an ambitious, immersive multimedia installation of curated experiences inspired by the wonders of the natural world. Using handmade sculptural elements, more than 40,000 LED lights, projection mapping and interactive sound, the exhibition imagines a world being reclaimed by nature and transformed into an extraordinary liminal space of maximalist possibility. It was a collaboration between Reinberger Gallery and the SEM department’s Light, Sound + Installation course led by faculty member Jimmy Kuehnle.

Megan Young ’20 is a practicing artist and Art Teacher at Near West Intergenerational School.

Rachel Yurkovich ’14 recently joined CIA as our Associate Director of Technology, Interactive Media Lab. She will manage all aspects of the IML, opening in Spring 2025.

Mark Reigelmann II ’06 is an award-winning site specific public artist. His work has been featured in publications like The Washington Post, Boston Sunday Globe and more. Learn more.

Selection of Learning Outcomes

Apply basic design principles to a implement solutions to design and fabrication problems with a specific aesthetic intent in one or more sculptural media.
Make sculpture using the broadest possible range of processes, techniques, concepts, and technologies, from traditional sculpture practices and an expanded range of processes appropriated from other practices.
Use 3D modeling software to create prototypes, concept visualizations, project proposals, and output via digital fabricating including 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC machining.

Meet Faculty

Jimmy Kuehnle

Professor

Jimmy Kuehnle, has exhibited in the United States and internationally. In 2014, he was selected for the national survey exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now at the…

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Sarah Paul

Professor

Born on the edge of the Berkshire Mountains in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Sarah Paul is now a transdisciplinary artist based in Cleveland, Ohio. Throughout her youth, Paul studied various styles of…

Major Sculpture + Expanded Media

Interdisciplinary is in

Why SEM at CIA?

FOREST OF MEMORIES

Selection of Learning Outcomes

Meet Faculty

Jimmy Kuehnle

Sarah Paul

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