This studio course explores how materials and fabrication techniques can tell a story. Utilizing various materials, such as up-cycled, found, or traditional, we'll delve into narration, place, and time, literally and metaphorically. Throughout the course, we will be honing practical skills and delving into various materials and media through shop time, discussions, readings, and critiques. Our focus will be on materials and contemporary topics. Students leave the course with enhanced technical skills, a deeper appreciation of materials, and their ability to communicate. We will look at artist such as: Felix Gonzales-Torres, Subodh Gupta, Ai Wei Wei, Lygia Clark, Nick Cave, Do Ho Suh, Simone Leigh. Tehching Hsieh, Cildo Meireles, Janet Cardiff, Rachel Whiteread, Kristen Lucas, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Laib.