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About SculptureX

MISSION
SculptureX is a teaching and networking resource and promotional platform formed to catalyze collaborations among teaching arts institutions in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and western New York and to publicize their sculpture departments.

VISION

As a teaching and networking resource, SculptureX aims to promote collaboration among art teaching institutions of our region and to increase the regional and national appreciation of our visual arts programs of sculpture in its broadest meaning: all three-dimensional forms, mixed media, installation, expanded media, relational aesthetics, and performance. SculptureX fosters the intellectual pursuit of compassionate thinking, discovering new forms and definitions of visual communication and understanding.

BEGINNING

SculptureX (i.e. sculpture exchange) was founded in 2010 by faculty and administrators at two regional institutions in Ohio: The Sculpture Center (Ann Albano) and Cleveland Institute of Art (Saul Ostrow, Charles Tucker, Lane Cooper) – and – at two institutions in Pennsylvania: Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (Lisa Austin, Dietrich Wegner) and the Erie Art Museum (John Vanco). Today, Ann Albano and her staff at The Sculpture Center manage SculptureX with assistance from both founding and participating institutions.

WEBSITE

SculptureX will eventually showcase the work of all artists of our region who are affiliated with higher education institutions – and – who provide images of their work. Eventually – the SculptureX website will have a page listing all sculpture related exhibitions in our region, along with links to the various arts institutions. Currently, the 75 artists featured on the website are those who submitted work to be considered for the first SculptureX exhibition, SculptureX: 6 Sculptors of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, curated by David Carrier and shown simultaneously at both The Sculpture Center and the Erie Art Museum (2010).

SCULPTUREX EVENTS

In addition to the joint exhibition in 2010, SculptureX events have included several visiting artist exchanges in in 2009 and 2010, three exhibitions in 2011 at The Sculpture Center, the Erie Art Museum, and Edinboro University and another in 2012 at Dickinson College.  Most successful have been the SculptureX symposia, a much-anticipated annual event that moves around our region as it is hosted by different teaching institutions. If you are interested in hosting a SculptureX Symposium contact Ann Albano.

SCULPTUREX SYMPOSIA

2010    SculptureX:      The State of Sculpture

Keynote:          Jeanne Silverthorne

Hosted by:       Cleveland Institute of Art

Chairs:             Saul Ostrow, Lane Cooper, and Charles Tucker

 

2011    SculptureX #2: The State of the MFA

Keynote:          Ann Hamilton

Hosted by:       Cleveland Institute of Art

Chairs:             Saul Ostrow, Lane Cooper, and Charles Tucker

Exhibition:       After the Pedestal: MFA Students, The Sculpture Center

(Juror Barbara Hunt, Judd Foundation)

New event:      Sculpture Speed Dating, student presentations

(Organized by Edinboro University graduate students)

 

2012    SculptureX #3: The State of Expanded Media

Keynote:          Mel Chin

Hosted by:       Cleveland Institute of Art

Chairs:             Saul Ostrow, Lane Cooper, and Ann Albano

Exhibition:       After the Pedestal, the 7th Annual of Small Sculpture from the Region,

MFA Students, The Sculpture Center

(Juror Barbara Hunt, Judd Foundation)

Event:              Sculpture Speed Dating, student presentations

(Organized by Edinboro University graduate students)

New event:      Panels with artists and art historians

           

2013    SculptureX #4: Performative Objects and the Everyday Spectacular

Keynote:          Martin Kersels

Hosted by:       Columbus College of Art & Design

Chairs:             Danielle Julian Norton and Molly J. Burke

Exhibition:       Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, MFA Student, Byers Gallery

                          Everyday Spectacular, MFA and BFA students, CCAD Broad Street Gallery

(Juror Ann Albano, The Sculpture Center)

New event:      My Crippled Friend, The Canzani Center Gallery

 

 

2014    SculptureX #5: The Social Political Object

Keynote:          Sharon Hayes

Hosted by:       Columbus College of Art & Design

Chairs:             Danielle Julian Norton and Molly J. Burke

 

2015    SculptureX Symposium 2015: Value Added

Keynote:          Sheila Pepe

Hosted by:       James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Design Wayne State University (Detroit, MI)

Co-sponsors:    Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University, the Penny StampsSchool of Art and Design, University of Michigan, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art

Chair:              John J. Richardson

New events:    Curated undergraduate exhibition; Professional Development Review

Sessions, one-on-one meeting with a university faculty member to

discuss recent artwork and future direction.

 

GET INVOLVED
Host a symposium. Regional faculty, and students, are encouraged to initiate collaborative events. Sculpture faculty (broadest definition) who are teaching in our region are invited to add or update their work and networking information by contacting:

 

Ann Albano, Executive Director, The Sculpture Center
216.229.6527, aalbano@sculpturecenter.org

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