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. The Sculpture Center serves as the nexus for SculptureX.
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.
2016 SculptureX Symposium 2016: Value Added
Keynote: John Douglas Powers and Tom Williams
Hosted by: James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History Wayne State University
Co-sponsors: Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw Valley State University
Chair: John J. Richardson
2018 SculptureX #8: Igniting Change
Keynote: Mel Chin and Laurie Jo Reynolds
Hosted by: Bowling Green State University, Contemporary Art Toledo, Owens Community College, Toledo Museum of Art, and the University of Toledo
Exhibitions: TWO ME, Mel Chin, Toledo Museum of Art
Igniting Change, Saul Ostrow, Bowling Green State University Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery
Soft Thrones: Sites of Power, Jova Lynne, University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts
OIL + WATER, Shanna Merola & Kate Levy, Walter Terhune Gallery Owens Community College
LINEATIONS, Erin Garber-Pearson, Contemporary Art Toledo/River House Arts Gallery
FROM THE OTHER SIDE, Mel Chin, Bowling Green State University Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery
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
