This course engages the sculpture student interested in small metal construction and cross-disciplinary approaches to object making. Noticing that a growing number of contemporary artists are producing work with their hands, using methods and materials traditionally associated with craft, this course will focus on the object materiality and the condition of their construction. We will pay close attention to the psychical and physical processes involved in the handmade object, and explore the intersection where process and product, idea and material, tradition and innovation meld.