Current and Upcoming Partners | Collaborators | Furthering Education
| Current and Upcoming Partners | Collaborators | Furthering Education |
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The heart of FiveOne's mission is to challenge both traditional and non-traditional concert-goers to participate with open mind, eyes, ears, and hearts in a truly unique musical experience. Their audiences are as diverse as their music; yet, their music speaks to each listener on a personal level. FiveOne is about using the arts to communicate, to foster community, and to create cosmos in a world of chaos. The Sculpture Center and FiveOne share a mission to facilitate cultural awareness and community enrichment through artistic means. As a not-for-profit arts institution The Sculpture Center seeks to support burgeoning artists who push the boundaries of "sculpture;" FiveOne strives to usher traditional orchestral music out of the conventional concert halls and into the vernacular and to assist and promote early career musicians. Both organizations depart from the traditional relationship of artist and audience, in which the audience passively observes, as the artist remains aloof and removed. FiveOne performs amid the artwork itself, seamlessly bridging the visual and the aural. Our W2S (Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist series) artists also have the opportunity to have FiveOne compose and perform original music for their exhibitions. By composing pieces in tandem with the sculptures / installations at The Sculpture Center, these musicians provide a sensory dichotomy and a more immersive, and therefore heightened, experience for our audience. For more information about FiveOne: click here
The BGCC make a great effort to provide instruction in as many subjects as possible. Exposure to so many diverse topics not only results in greater awareness and understanding as global citizens, but gives students the opportunity to sample disciplines and discover talents and passions that may have otherwise gone untapped. The Sculpture Center holds the complementary opinion that children should be given the opportunity to access and explore methods of self-expression. To that end, The Sculpture Center has facilitated artists' workshops for the young members of the BGCC since early 2008. The children are also invited to attend openings and to tour exhibitions both during installation to meet the artist at work and after completion. Since 2010, The Sculpture Center has been partnering with the BGCC to administer a program with artist Elizabeth Emery to teach sculpture classes in the BGCC's after school programs in certain Cleveland elementary schools.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland 2011.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland 2010 and earlier.
about Elizabeth Emery about the participating W2S artists Sarah Kabot is Head of the Drawing Department and Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She holds a BFA in Fiber and Ceramics from the University of Michigan and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has shown twice at The Sculpture Center with the solo W2S exhibition Enough (Apr - May 2009) and the installation Wearin' It Out in SculptureX: 6 Sculptors of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania (Jun - Aug 2011). Sarah's workshop incorporated themes from her own work, such as the exploration of structure and the secondary experience, as well as some guidance in the use of colors through a three dimensional self-portrait project in construction paper. Jake Beckman, of Cleveland Heights, OH, who now holds a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2011), graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in Art, focus in sculpture. Embodied (Feb - Apr 2009) transformed the very walls of the gallery. The artist used a plasticity of the fantastic to put before the viewer the critical interconnectedness between society and the most mundane aspects of its built environment. In Jake's BGCC workshop, the students worked with a variety of media, including paper projects and found materials, to build miniature houses. Susan McClelland, a long time Ohio resident, receives her MFA from Kent State University in 2011 and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kent State University, Kent, OH (2007) and BS from Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH (1998). Accumulations Retraced (Jan - Feb 2009) included sculptures with hand stitched, variously worked fabrics placed over recognizable household furniture or shaped metal wire as well as new hanging, enclosed shapes made of felt. Susan provided The BGCC students with sessions in the making of 3-D work using wool felting. Charmaine Spencer's artwork often carries themes of conservation and environmentalism. In A Place to Dwell (May 2008), she disassembled, reformed, and transformed materials into large abstract sculpture and accumulative installation with a subtle social message. While attending the Cleveland Institute of Art, Spencer received the William McVey Award for excellence in sculpture, and was one of two students selected to finish posthumously the last sculpture of David E. Davis, the founder of the Sculpture Center. Charmaine's workshop emphasized collaboration and introduced the children to the concept of 'green art.' Her students worked in small groups to create organic, abstract structures. Currently, she continues to mentor young Clevelanders in artistic exploration through a program called Greener Sculpture, a class in environmentalism and sculpture offered by the BGCC. Joseph Filak, III made sculpture that expressed outrage at the contemporary culture of consumerism and Americans' seemingly unquestioning acceptance of the pervasive influence of the military in An Accumulated Blur (Feb - Mar 2008). He now holds a MFA from Notre Dame University (2010) and a BA from Cleveland State University (2007). Joseph worked with the BGCC to make large collages with an emphasis upon color, patterning, and surreal juxtapositions. Lauren Kalman is a visual artist whose practice is invested in installation, video, photography, and performance. Through her work, including the W2S exhibit, A Pretty Little Trick (Jan - Feb 2008) she investigates perspectives of beauty, body image, value, and consumer culture. Raised in the Midwest, Kalman completed her MFA in Art at the Ohio State University and earned a BFA with a focus in metals from the Massachusetts College of Art. She exhibits and lectures internationally, and has been teaching as an adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. Lauren's workshop stepped away from traditional sculpture. She led BGCC students in drawing a series of images that was ultimately stitched together into a narrative video. Thomas Grafton Lee graduated from Cleveland State University with a BA in Studio Art and received his Post-baccalaureate Certificate from the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2009 he completed his MFA work at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. His W2S exhibition Suspended (Apr - May 2007) predominately included sculptures suspended by intricate webs of thread and was intended to express the idea of the impossibility of social and community balance in torn urban neighborhoods. Grafton led a workshop in which the students made 3D collages. For more information about the Boys and Girls Clubs of America: click here
Founded in 2010, by four regional institutions (the Cleveland Institute of Art, Edinboro University of PA, the Erie Art Museum, and The Sculpture Center) the mission of SculptureX is three-fold: to bring awareness to the work of college art faculty of the region; to share scarce resources; and to increase student interest and parent awareness of art programs in this region. Through this partnership, The Sculpture Center has and will continue to serve as a venue for exhibitions of professors and students across the region. In conjunction with the Erie Art Museum, The Sculpture Center has exhibited work of six professors in the region in its exhibition SculptureX: 6 Sculptors of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Guest curated by David Carrier PhD, SculptureX: 6 Sculptors of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania highlights a curated selection of exceptional sculptors and installation artists teaching at the universities and colleges of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. For more information on SculptureX: 6 Sculptors of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania click here Fall 2011, SculptureX.org will hold a second symposium, The State of the MFA, at The Cleveland Institute of Art on October 15. Following on the success of the first symposium held in 2010 on The State of Sculpture, which was attended by 145 students, faculty, and artists of Ohio and western Pennsylvania, The State of the MFA will feature keynote speaker Ann Hamilton of Ohio State University. For more information on The State of the MFA and to preregister, click here. In conjunction with The State of the MFA, After The Pedestal for 2011 is exhibiting only the work of graduate students and recent MFA graduates in Ohio, contiguous states (Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia), and Ontario, Canada. Through the partnership with SculptureX.org, The Sculpture Center facilitates the educational opportunities for sculptors and exhibition opportunities for early career sculptors and installation artists in the region of Ohio and western Pennsylvania. |
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The Sculpture Center is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to the advancement of the careers of emerging Ohio sculptors and the preservation of Ohio outdoor sculpture as a means to provide support for artists and to effect the enrichment, education, enjoyment, and visual enhancement of the Cleveland community and greater region. The Sculpture Center receives generous support from The Callahan Foundation, the Kulas Foundation, The John P. Murphy Foundation, the Bernice and David E. Davis Art Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, studioTECHNE|architects, the Leonard Krieger Fund of The Cleveland Foundation, Sculpture Center board members, and many individual donors to Friends of The Sculpture Center. Additional generous public funding comes from the citizens of Cuyahoga County and the state of Ohio through:
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