The Planar Pose: Sculpting the Figure

The Planar Pose: Sculpting the Figure: In-Person

James Sondow | Summer I | Mondays: May 12 - Jun 23

Class Description:

Join renowned sculptor James Sondow for this 6-week class on how to construct a figurative sculpture using planes.

Each day will begin with a lecture and demonstration from the live model, moving in stages from the internal planar structure of the skeleton to the muscles that lie upon those planes, to the differences in active and passive surface details of skin folds created by muscles of expression. Heavy emphasis will be placed on sculpting forms with clearly demarcated plane breaks to add conviction to students’ interpretation of the model and allow freedom to play with idiosyncrasies in soft tissue, enhancing likeness while maintaining the solidity of clearly constructed bone structure to support it.

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Summer I Session Dates:

Scheduled occurrences for the next semester of this class are as follows:

Week	Date	Time
Week 1:	5/12/2025	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 2:	5/19/2025	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 3:	5/02/2025	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 4:	6/09/2025	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 5:	6/16/2025	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 6:	6/23/2025	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET

*No class on Memorial Day 05/26

Before Class - Welcome & How to Prepare for Class
Week 1 - Mass, Large planes, Big Proportions
Week 2 - Pelvis
Week 3 - Rib Cage
Week 4- Legs
Week 5 - Arms
Week 6 - Feet and Hands

$410.00
In-Person
6 Weeks
Beginner to Advanced

Meet Your Instructor

James Sondow

Instructor

James Sondow is a native New Yorker with 36 years of sculpture experience. Sondow is the only American to graduate with highest honors from the sculpture department at the Repin Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Starting at an early age, Sondow studied at the Art Students’ League, SVA and The Bridgeview School of Fine Arts in Queens. Sondow has taught figurative drawing and sculpture in New York at the Art Students’ League, Beaux-Arts Atelier, and Grand Central Academy, in Florence, and Rome at the Beaux-Arts Academy, and at the Princeton Academy. An elected member of the National Sculpture Society, his awards include the Rhoda Sherbell Award for Portraiture, the Agop Agopoff Memorial Award for sculpture, the Gloria Medal, and the Audubon Artists Gold Medal of Honor in Sculpture.