Whether an artist chooses to work with traditional materials — such as plaster, clay, stone, metal, or wood — or more contemporary materials like found objects, electronic media, or one's own body — the ability to communicate ideas and impulses requires sensitivity and skill.

Creating a successful sculpture involves a series of related decisions — literally layered one on top of another — that involve issues of craft, spatial orchestration, scale relationships, material interactions and tolerances, the eventual site of a work, and even the audience it invites. Ultimately, some intangible idea has been given form, and some previously dormant material has been given voice.

Sculpture, as it is practiced today, is a broadly defined medium. Montserrat's sculpture faculty embrace a variety of attitudes and areas of expertise, and our courses provide a range of conceptual and technical information. Montserrat's goal is to train, prepare, and enrich sculpture students, to allow them to flourish and create works of lasting physical, conceptual, and visual power.