The Faculty of Sculpture offers classes in the basics of sculpture, drawing, spatial design, stucco, documentation and digital creation, and anatomy. The workshops are located at 15 Spokojna Street, 37/39 Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie Street, and 5 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street.
About the Faculty
The basic programme criteria of our faculty are the multifaceted nature of the studies and the implementation of the assumptions of integration and a holistic understanding of sculptural issues in all their aspects. An obligatory selection by the student, one of two, of a specialisation studio is also a programme distinction.
The distinct curricular individualisation of the Sculpture Studio provides the student with an opportunity to learn about the creative process based on both the traditional study from nature and the concept of sculpture understood as a complex spatio-temporal form up to interdisciplinary spatial activities or activity in public space. The possibility to freely choose leading sculpture studios, specialisations and sculpture techniques is the result of the system of individualisation of education adopted years ago. Students also have the right to choose ateliers with a similar didactic scope at other faculties of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
The education process, especially in leading studios, is based on individualised didactic-student contact. It serves to distinguish the individual predispositions of the future artist.
We greatly value our students’ frequent trips to foreign scholarships and their independent participation in design competitions. For many years, the faculty has been intensively involved in academic circles that carry out both extra-didactic research projects and cultural animation in the broadest sense. These are important fields of search for individual activity.
Modern workshop facilities
The dean’s office and most of the faculty’s specialist workshops are located in new premises at 15 Spokojna St. Faculty studios are also located at 37 Wybrzeze Kosciuszkowskie St. and 5 Krakowskie Przedmieście St. In recent years, the faculty’s technical infrastructure and workshop facilities have been thoroughly modernised – it boasts modern workshop facilities, especially workshops for sculptural techniques: artistic casting, ceramics, stone and wood.
Programme
The fundamental programme criterion of our Faculty is, above all, the multi-layered nature of studies and the implementation of the principles that involve the integration and holistic understanding of sculpture issues in all their aspects. Currently, students can make choices according to their preferences and intellectual considerations ranging from sculpture created based on nature studies to the concept of sculpture understood as a sophisticated and well – studied form of „spacetime”. Another distinctive feature of the program is the student’s obligatory choice of one of two specialization workshops.
The distinct individualization of the Sculpture Workshop programme allows students to explore the creative process based on both traditional nature studies and the concept of sculpture understood as a complex spatiotemporal form, extending to interdisciplinary spatial activities and engagement in public space. The freedom to choose leading sculpture studios, specializations, and sculpture techniques is the result of the system of individualized education established years ago. Students also have the right to choose a workshop with a similar teaching scope at other faculties of the Academy of Fine Arts.
In general, the educational process (especially in leading workshops) is based on very individualized interaction between the teacher and the student. It serves to isolate the most individual predispositions of the future artist.
We highly value our students’ frequent participation in foreign scholarships and their independent participation in project competitions. The Scientific Clubs of the Faculty of Sculpture have been active for many years, implementing both non – didactic research projects and broadly understood cultural animation – these are also important areas for individual engagement.
In the academic year 2011/2012, a new structure of the Faculty was introduced. We now have three departments: the Department of Sculpture, the Department of Drawing and Painting, the Department of Spatial Activities and the Department of Sculptural Techniques.
dr hab. Rafał Rychter, Associate Professor Dean
