Tri State Sculptors

includes The Skin of Memory, with Pilar Riano, an installation in Medellin, Colombia; Code 33, a performance involving 150 youth and 100 police officers in dialogue in Oakland California; and she is currently at work on Beneath Land and Water, a project for Elkhorn City, Kentucky, and The Borough Project, in Charleston, South Carolina’s Spoleto USA Festival. Other highly visible projects over the past two decades include The Crystal Quilt (Minneapolis, 1987) a performance with 430 older women, broadcast live on Public Television; Circle (Chicago, 1993), for Culture in Action, a sculpture exhibition curated by Mary Jane Jacob; Auto: On the Edge of Time (New York, 1993-95) an installation on domestic violence for Art Park and the Public Art Fund; and Under Construction: The Turning Point (Vancouver, 1997), a social art/community development project and performance involving hundreds of teenage girls. Lacy is a proponent through art and writing for activism, audience engagement, and artists' roles in shaping the public agenda, publishing over 50 articles on public theory in magazines such as the Performing Art Journal, Ms. Magazine, Art Journal, High Performance, and the Public Art Review, among others. She has exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in London, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, and the New Museum in New York, and her work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Drama Review, Art in America, High Performance, the L.A. Times, Village Voice, and numerous books. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Arts International, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, the Surdna Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her book on new genre public art, Mapping the Terrain (1995), was published by Bay Press. From 1987-97 Lacy was founding Dean of the School of Fine Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts: a founding faculty at the California State University at Monterey Bay, designing an innovative arts curriculum; and the Founding Director of the Center for Art and Public Life at California College of Arts and Crafts. She was a member of Mayor Jerry Brown’s education cabinet and an Arts Commissioner for the City of Oakland.

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2. by faxing your reservation toll-free to 1-800-976-2282. The main conference hotel is the Best Western Salem Inn & Suites located at 127 S Cherry Street. A limited number of rooms are available at the conference rate of only $ 58 + tax for 1-2 people per room. Amenities include a complementary hot or continental breakfast, outdoor pool, cable tv, air conditioning, in-room coffee maker, exercise room, bar & restaurant. We have also reserved a select number of rooms at the historic Brookstown Inn at the special NCSA rate of $ 89 + tax for a standard room (1 person; $ 99.00 for two people) and bi-level suites at $109 ($ 119 for two people). The Brookstown Inn was built in 1837 as a textile mill and is on the National Register of Historic Places, 200 Brookstown Avenue. Amenities include: complimentary morning coffee, juice, and pastries, complimentary evening wine and cheese, complimentary cookies and milk at bedtime, evening turn-down with yummy handmade fudge, individual climate control, cable television with free HBO, data ports/Voice mail, state-of-the-art exercise facility, and garden tubs and fireplaces in select rooms).

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