Tri State Sculptors Educational Association, Inc.
    Roots to Radicals: Tradition, Innovation and Collaboration
    

    26th Annual Conference Schedule
    October 7-10, 2004
 North Carolina School of the Arts
School of Design & Production
Visual Arts
P.O. Box 12189
Winston-Salem, NC 27117-2189


Important Pre-Conference Dates

((tentative schedule))

Thursday, October 7                           Day 1     
1:00 - 5:00 pm Registration, Performance Place Foyer
2:00 - 6:00 pm Blacksmithing demonstration, Phillip Harrison, Penumbra Design Studios, Westfield, NC
Sculpture Studio
2:00 - 4:00 pm TSS Slide Shoot-out, TSS members are invited to show slides and discuss their work.  Carousel space is available on a first-come / first-served basis. Arena Theatre
5:00 - 7:00 pm Dinner on own
7:30 - 8:30 pm Film: Discovering Heartwood The David Nash Residency, Dan Millspaugh, UNC-Asheville;
David Hutto, Producer / Director, Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, NC


    

    Friday, October 8                                   Day 2    
9:00 am Continental Breakfast, Performance Place Foyer
9:00 am - 4:00 pm Registration, Performance Place Foyer
10:30 am - 12:30 PM Architecture as Metaphor for the Body, Christen Millett [NCSA Alum], Pennsylvania State University, Performance Place, Thrust
Hybrid Makers: The Role of rapid Prototyping in Jewelry and Metalsmithing Rebecca Strzelec, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, Performance Place, Thrust

10:30 am - 12:30 PM 		 A Tour of the Tri State Web Site, Keston Helfrich, TSS Webmaster, Hendersonville, NC, RJR Conference Room
How to Upload Images to the TSS Web Site, Mike Lyda, TSS President, Concord, NC, RJR Conference Room
10:30 am - 12:30 pm TSS Slide Shoot-out, TSS members are invited to show slides and discuss their work.  Carousel space is available on a first-come / first-served basis. Arena Theatre
12:30 - 1:30 pm    Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 pm Just Who is Sir William Goscombe John, Angharad J. Pritchard, South Wales, Great Britain
Performance Place, Thrust
The Important Heritage of African Art & Culture, Chuks Idabie, The Gambia, West Africa, Performance Place, Thrust
1:30 - 3:30 pm Film: Discovering Heartwood The David Nash Residency, Dan Millspaugh, UNC-Asheville;
[David Hutto, Producer / Director, Blue Ridge Community College], RJR Conference Room
1:30 - 3:30 pm TSS Slide Shoot-out, TSS members are invited to show slides and discuss their work.  Carousel space is available on a first-come / first-served basis. Arena Theatre
1:30-3:30 pm Patina Workshop: Application and Preparation of Hot and Cold patina for Copper, Brass, and Bronze, Hanna Jubran, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Sculpture Studio
1:00-4:00 pm Blacksmithing demonstration, Phillip Harrison, Penumbra Design Studios, Westfield, NC
Sculpture Studio    
1:00 - 5:00 pm Iron Pour, East Carolina University, Sculpture Studio & Sculpture Studio Patio & Lawn
3:40 pm - 5:10 pm Weve Come for Your Lungs, Laurel Berman, Ph.D. Student, Industrial Hygiene, University of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, Performance Place, Thrust
3:40 pm - 5:10 pm Film: Discovering Heartwood The David Nash Residency, Dan Millspaugh, UNC-Asheville; [David Hutto, Producer / Director, Blue Ridge Community College]
RJR Conference Room
3:40 pm5:10 pm The Accessibility Project, Rob McAdams, Independent Artist, Columbia, SC & Richmond, VA, Arena Theatre & Outdoors on Various locations on the NCSA Campus
6:00 - 7:30 pm Reception for Indoor show, Sawtooth Center for Visual Art, Milton Rhodes and RJR Galleries
7:30 pm Dinner on own
   
   

    Saturday, October 9                             Day 3
9:00 am Continental Breakfast, Performance Place Foyer
9:00 am - Noon Registration, Performance Place Foyer
10:00 am - 12:30 pm Public Art Mix, David Finn, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, Performance Place, Thrust
Triple Helix: The Genesis of a Public Sculpture, Duncan Lewis, Independent Artist, Winston-Salem, NC, Performance Place, Thrust
10:00 am - 12:30 pm The Return to My Roots, Sabrina Fadial, Independent Artist, Oakland, CA, RJR Conference Room
Rising Up: The Sculpture of Charlie Brouwer, Charlie Brouwer, Radford College, Radford, VA, RJR Conference Room [Tentative]
10:00 am - 12:30 pm TSS Slide Shoot-out, TSS members are invited to show slides and discuss their work.  Carousel space is available on a first-come / first-served basis. Arena Theatre
12:30 pm - 1:50 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Official Welcome to Campus, Performance Place, Thrust Theatre
    1.        Greg Shelnutt, Conference Coordinator, NCSA Faculty
    2.        Wade Hobgood, Chancellor, NCSA
    3.        The Honorable Allen Joines, Mayor, Winston-Salem, NC
    4.        Margaret Mertz, Executive Director, Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts
2:30 pm

Keynote addresses:

    1. Ellen Dissanayake, Independent Scholar & Lecturer, Author of What is Art For (1988), Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why (1995), and Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began (2000)

    2. Suzanne Lacey, Chair of Fine Arts, Otis College of Art & Design. Internationally known artist whose works include installations, videos, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. [The Crystal Quilt, Minneapolis, 1987; Evoking History: The Borough Project, Charleston, SC, 2000; TEAM, Oakland, CA, 1991-2000]

5:00 - 6:00 pm Book signing, Ellen Dissanayake
7:00 pm Saturday Party ($ 15, per person, pre-paid)

    Sunday, October 10                             Day 4   
9:00 am Breakfast, RJR Conference Room
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Tri State Business Meeting, RJR Conference Room
12:00 - 2:00 pm De-installation, Members Show, Sawtooth Building


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