MFA to MFG

This space is a continuation of the conversations we began this spring in a seminar course titled 'Contemporary Production Practices.' This blog allows us to further our examination of the multitude of models for the manufacturing of goods, from products to projects, as well as expand each students’ knowledge of production possibilities for his or her own work.

At times it seems like there are more questions than answers...
What is the relationship between the designer/artist and the factory? What defines a factory and what constitutes an “industrial” process? How do things get made? Who makes them? These are some of the questions that will guide us through the complex world of small to high volume production of consumer goods and the global marketplace.

We will also look at artists who manufacture and examples of creative projects where making multiples through outsourcing of labor has been the means by which large pieces, collections, editions, and bodies of work have been realized.