SUMMER 2011 EXHIBITION

Dates and Exhibition Title to be determined

Four regional institutions are collaborating to create SculptureX – a teaching and networking resource and a promotional platform for sculptors, institutions and the region. The term “sculpture” is used in the broadest interpretation of the word - artists producing three-dimensional work in any material as well as performance, video and extended media may participate. There are no dues or fees. To date, these projects are underway:

WEBSITE AND CALL FOR ARTISTS
Sculpture faculty at Edinboro University of PA founded the www.SculptureX.org website to connect interested faculty with each other as potential visiting artists for the schools and studio art departments in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, to let each other know about other visiting artists who might be able to come to more than one school, and to give our art schools’ faculty wider recognition. Through this website forum, it is hoped that inter-institutional events may be more easily realized. A calendar of events and a networking feature will be added to the site during Fall 2010.

A first call for images for this site has been sent to all artist-professors of sculpture at higher education art programs within 250 miles of Cleveland, Ohio, and Erie, Pennsylvania. Anyone teaching, full or part-time, is encouraged to email the following by August 30 to webmaster@SculptureX.org:

1. 6 JPG format images sized as close to 800 x 533 pixels as possible – OR –
2. 6 one-minute QuickTime videos

These images should be enclosed in an attachment labeled SculptureXLastName. The email subject line should be: SculptureX. In the body of our message please include your name, personal website (if any), school name and school website, your email, phone and other contact information.

Please forward this information to any artist-faculty whom we may have missed.

CONFERENCE
The Cleveland Institute of Art is organizing and hosting a Sculpture conference on November 6, 2010. A morning roundtable will focus on teaching sculpture; an afternoon roundtable will consider “the state of sculpture.” A well-known artist or critic will deliver the keynote address. Following the conference, there will be a reception and opening at The Sculpture Center. Participants will also be able to attend openings at MOCA Cleveland, Forum, and Matchkey and SPACES annual benefit.

EXHIBITION
To highlight the outstanding sculpture being produced by the faculty of our region, The Sculpture Center and the Erie Art Museum are presenting two simultaneous exhibitions curated by renowned author, critic, and art history professor David Carrier, to run from June through September 2011. Carrier will review the SculptureX website to select three OH and three PA artist-professors to exhibit their work at both venues. Exhibiting artists will receive a $1,000 stipend, but are expected to deliver and pick up work for the Cleveland and Erie exhibitions. The exhibition will be accompanied by an “on demand” and downloadable catalog with essays by the curator and all artwork illustrated.

For more information call 216.229.6527 or go to info@sculpturecenter.org.

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 Toby Devan Lewis, the Kulas Foundation, the John P. Murphy Foundation, the Bernice and David E. Davis Art Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, studioTECHNE|architects, The Nathan and Fannye Shafran Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, and individual donors to Friends of The Sculpture Center. It receives additional generous public funding from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and the Ohio Arts Council. 

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