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Presenters
Edging between the Garden and the City by Jennifer McGregor
Jennifer McGregor, Visual Arts Curator at Wave Hill, will talk about
fostering artists projects that link the visual arts with nature in
the context of a public garden.
Jennifer McGregor has a BA in Art from Brown University, and attended
The Graduate School and University Center/CUNY. She has worked to create
new opportunities for artists to work in the public realm for the past
two decades. Currently she is the Visual Arts Curator at Wave Hill,
Bronx, NY where she organizes exhibitions and special projects. She
is affiliated with the Association for Professional Art Advisors and
ArtTable. From 1985 - 90 she was the director of the Percent for Art
Program for NYC, supervising 60 projects with 20 agencies. From 1990
to the present she has been the principal for McGregor Consulting which
engages in wide ranging public art and interpretive projects for agencies,
institutions, and architects.
Temporary Public Art in the Community: Some Program Models by
Mary Prevo After a presentation of some of the more venerable models
for temporary art in public spaces, Ms. Prevo will encourage discussion
among the participants’ about their experiences with other programs,
including what has and has not worked for them. The goal of this workshop
will be to develop an improved working model for a public art program
from the artist’s point of view.
Mary Prevo received her BA in Art History and German from State University
College of New York at New Paltz, and her MA in Medieval Art and Architecture
from Columbia University. She has worked as a museum educator for The
Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was Assistant and Deputy
Director of the NYC Percent for Art Program from 1985-89. From 1989-92,
she directed an international project to develop a multi-lingual thesaurus
for art terminology for the Getty Trust and, more recently, she has
worked as a lecturer in art history for Longwood College and a curator
of education for the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts. Presently,
she teaches art history at Hampden-Sydney College.
Finding the Fun in Functional: Exploring Interactive Sculpture,
by Michael Creed.
This presentation will focus on incorporating functional features into
sculptural forms and will contain a discussion of materials and techniques,
including kinetic possibilities. Michael Creed is a craft artist from
Lynchburg,VA whose functional, sculptural, and often humorous pieces
have been widely exhibited in the Southeast. He has received numerous
public commissions and won a Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual
Artist Fellowship Award in 1998.
Building Polychromed, Textured Surfces on Sculpture with Encaustic,
by
Susanne Arnold.
This workshop will demonstrate the application of encaustic medium (hot
wax and pigment) to sculptural forms. Using a carved Styrofoam maquette,
the demonstration will include building, scraping and reworking the
surface, and adding dry pigment, charcoal, collage and found objects.
A slide presentation will porvide historical background and examples
of works created with these materials.
Richmond artist Susanne Arnold is a painter and sculptor. Her work explores
the overlay of cultural memory and personal experience, and utilizes
a vocabulary of images derived from ancient artifacts and cultures to
comment on current events. Bulilding surfaces with encaustic and other
materials on panels and over carved polystyrene forms, she scrapes and
reworks the layers to reveal underlying marks and colors. This “unearthing”
of images suggests the process by which archaeologists excavate the
layers of time.
Drawing for Sculptors, by David Dodge Lewis
This presentation will be a look at the uses sculptors have made of
drawing, together with some practical suggestions of how best to employ
the genre as an ally for sculpture. Lewis has won the Virginia Prize
for Prints and Drawings as well as five best in show awards in national
competitions for his drawing since 1990. He is William Elliott Professor
of Fine Arts at Hampden-Sydney College and has given drawing demonstrations
at the Art Students’ League of NYC, Maryland Institute College
of Art (MICA), RISD, VCU, ECU, LMNOP, and as an instructor at Penland
School of Crafts.
How I Do What I Do: Fabricating Sculptural Forms out of Flat
Galvanized
Sheet Steel, by Rudy Rudisill.
This presentation will show the process of creating three dimensional
forms out of flat galvanized sheet steel, from the initial idea through
layout and patterns, cutting, forming, assembly, and finishing.
Rudy Rudisill is a sculptor from Gastonia, NC. He has been making sculpture
since 1984 and has won numerous awards in regional and national competitions.
He has work in public and private collections throughout the US and
abroad.
Pushing the MAKE IT Button: Output Options for Computer-Assisted
Sculpting, by Martin Webster
This presentation will survey the ways to get designs out of the computer
and into the studio: profiles and cross-sections, computer-controlled
milling machines, and 3D printing (Rapid Prototyping). If there is time
and interest, the workshop will also survey ways to bring drawings and
maquettes into the computer through tracing digitizing, scanning, and
force-feedback modeling. The aim is to describe real-world input and
output possibilities to help sculptors decide whether/when to explore
3D modeling software.
Martin Webster studied at Rhode Island School of Design, Penland School
of Crafts, and figure sculpture with Marbury Brown, Michele Loizzi,
and Martine Vaugel. He has been self-employed for 19 years in graphic
design, including 8 years of commercial sculpture work, creating custom
props and miniatures for TV commercials and advertising photography.
His outdoor sculpture “ A Hedge against Extinction” was purchased
from the TSS exhibition last year for installation at the North Carolina
Arboretum. He bought his first computer in 1981 and is now bringing
the computer and sculpture together.
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