SculptureX

Four regional institutions are collaborating to create SculptureX – a teaching and networking resource and a promotional platform for sculptors, institutions and the region. We use the term “sculpture” 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

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.



This is a first call for images for this site, which we are sending 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:

- 6 JPG format images sized as close to 800 x 533 pixels as possible

– OR –

- 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.



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 an opening at Forum Gallery and SPACES annual benefit, which is very artist oriented.



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 critic and author 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.



More information will be forthcoming as we move forward. Do call or email if you have any questions. Please forward this email to any artist-faculty in your department whom we may have missed.



Best wishes,



Ann Albano, Executive Director, The Sculpture Center

216.229.6527, aalbano@sculpturecenter.org

Lisa Austin, Professor, Art Department, Edinboro University of PA

814.73.2908, laustin@edinboro.edu

Saul Ostrow, Chair of Visual Arts & Technologies, Cleveland Institute of Art

216.932.0070, sostrow@cia.edu

John Vanco, Director, Erie Art Museum

814.459.5477, jvanco@erieartmuseum.org