Mid-South Sculpture Alliance’s Sculpture Conference 2012 will be held April 20-22, 2012 in Chattanooga, Tennessee
CONFERENCE DETAILS
Keynote Addresses and Panel Discussions
Featuring nationally known professionals from the world of sculpture including:
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Three Juried Sculpture Shows
Two Professional Level Members-Only Juried Sculpture Shows
Indoor and outdoor exhibitions featuring the sculpture of Mid-South Sculpture Alliance (MSA) members.
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One Student Level Juried Indoor Sculpture Show
An indoor exhibition featuring the sculpture of MSA student members and students from MSA Conference Education Sponsor schools.
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Workshops and Demonstrations
Conference attendees have a choice of Workshops and Demonstrations, which will be repeated.
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Networking Opportunities
Meet artists, art professionals, art educators and art lovers from MSA’s four-state region – Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky – and beyond.
Connect with a Dynamic Organization
Mid-South Sculpture Alliance offers several levels of membership. Formed in 2006 to advance the creation, awareness and understanding of sculpture and its important role in our communities, MSA is one of three affiliate organizations of the International Sculpture Center (ISC) and serves Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky.
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Conference Location
The conference will be held in Chattanooga, Tennessee, nationally recognized for its dynamic renaissance, its thriving arts community, established artists, flourishing public art programs and a broad range of cultural activities.
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Speakers' Bios
Taylor McDonald
Taylor McDonald serves as the President and Co-Founder of Second|Site, a technology company focused on bridging geospatial information with the Augmented Reality environment. Based in Chattanooga, TN, the team at Second|Site has a combined 40 years of professional experience in GIS technologies and media development for various federal, state, and privately funded GIS research initiatives. Prior to Second|Site, Taylor helped build the Environmental Division for Wilson and Associates, P.C. As Senior Environmental Projects Manager, Taylor developed and administered systems for successful environmental compliance for over $700 million in award winning federal, state and local construction projects. Taylor is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Environmental Science Masters program in 2002. Taylor has a BS in Biology from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. With his family and friends, Taylor enjoys camping, throwing frisbee and an occasional howl at the moon.
Taylor will discuss his organization Second|Site: Public Art Chattanooga. Second|Site has begun the development of an Augmented Reality layer focused on the Public Art of Chattanooga. This data layer and augmented user interface will allow a broad audience of art patrons, technology enthusiasts, tourists, and Chattanooga Citizens to interact with live, web-based, digital multimedia content. This content is being developed and designed by Second|Site and provides information specific to each individual work of art. The project includes the 150+ piece collection managed by the Public Art Chattanooga initiative and various works from the collection of the Hunter Museum of American Art.
Claudia DeMonte
Claudia DeMonte has had more than 60 one person and 300 group exhibitions nationally including exhibitions at the Corcoran Museum Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Mississippi Museum, Tucson Museum, Flint Institute of Art, Museum of the Southwest. She has lectured and exhibited in 35 countries including: France, Italy, Estonia, Iceland, Germany, Thailand, Jamaica, The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Australia and Japan. Her work is in numerous museum permanent collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Stamford Museum, Boca Raton Museum, and in major corporate collections such as those of Hyatt Regency Hotels, Exxon, Citibank and Siemens. Her public commissions have come from the N.Y.C. Department of Cultural Affairs, Brooklyn Library System, Queens Supreme Court, Prudential, the State of New Mexico and N.Y.C. School Construction Authority. DeMonte is the curator of Women of the World: A Global Collection of Art. This traveling exhibition, with accompanying book, includes work of women from 177 countries dealing with the image of women. This exhibit has been to 24 venues around the world. Her new project, REAL BEAUTY, uses handmade fabric dolls to express beauty standards around the world that are being lost due to plastic reproductions and globalization. She has been a juror for the Prix de Rome and the Fulbright Fellowships. For 33 years DeMonte has served on the faculty of the University of Maryland where she has been named Distinguished Scholar Teacher and Professor Emerita. DeMonte also ran the Art Workshop program at the New School for Social Research from 1980-90. In 2006 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the College of Santa Fe. In fall 2009 a retrospective of DeMonte’s work began a national tour. Pomegranate published an accompanying monograph, with essays by Eleanor Heartney and Agnes Gund, is being published by Pomegranate. She is represented by the June Kelly Gallery in N.Y.C.
DeMonte will discuss her work as it pertains to the roles of women in contemporary society. For over 30 years DeMonte's art has used a variety of media to challenge our ideas of women's everyday lives and the concept of beauty in our global culture. Using stereotypical images of everyday life, she works in series that deal with different aspects of women’s lives: housework, career, muse, religion, caregivers, travel, beauty and exercise.
Gerard (Gerry) Masse
Gerard (Gerry) Masse, born in Massachusetts and raised in Indiana, is the founder
and Executive Director of Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Solsberry, IN. He
studied sculpture and furniture design at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis where
he earned two BFA’s and went on to receive his MFA in sculpture from the University
of Kentucky. After graduation he taught Sculpture at UK for six years and was the
Furnace Crew Recruiting Officer for the Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture
in Coalbrookdale, England for nine years. His artwork has been shown in galleries
and sculpture parks nationally and internationally from London, England to good ole
Chattanooga, TN. Additionally Gerry heads the Sculpture Trails Educational Traveling
Foundry program. The Trails Foundry reached over 6000 students and participants last
year and will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this May.
Masse is also the owner and operator of Toolstroke Studios in Lexington, KY, an antique
furniture and sculpture restoration firm that offers the conservation of fine objects as well
as the creation of custom woodworks, metal fabrication and foundry services specializing
in the casting of aluminum, bronze or iron.
Ed McGowin
Ed McGowin is a sculptor with over 80 one person exhibitions nationally and internationally, and more than 300 group exhibitions. His “Name Change” exhibition (catalogue) toured ten venues in US and Europe, from 2006 through 2010. McGowin has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts Grants, among others. He has over twenty public national/international commissions, and his work has been selected for the following public collections: Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, National Museum of American Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Mississippi Museum, and Mobile Museum. His corporate collections include: ATT, Chase Manhattan Bank, McKinsey and Co., American Medical Association, Prudential Life Insurance, Goldman Sacks. He has traveled to over 100 countries and lives with wife Claudia DeMonte in New York City, Kent, CT and Miami Beach, FL.
McGowin will discuss "Name Change," a project begun in 1970, which includes works created under twelve different legal names. He will show work in a variety of media from each of these twelve aliases, and discuss the concept and methodology for the project.
