ELIZABETH SPAVENTO
As a curator and human being, Elizabeth Spavento is interested in equity, particularly as it relates to issues of race and gender, the untapped potential of space, altered states of consciousness and unstructured time. Her practice seeks the fringe as a way to push back against hegemony, and her work tends to favor alternative spaces and community-driven practices. She has curated exhibitions for Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, OR and Open Source Gallery in New York, NY in addition to exhibiting her own work in Buffalo, NY. Spavento's largest project, ALL RISE, was a two-year long series of temporary public artworks punctuated by performance, video and music on a 90,000 sq. ft. gravel lot in downtown Seattle. In 2015, it was recognized as one of 38 outstanding public art projects in the country by Americans for the Arts Public Art Network. She and her partner, Jared Haug run Border Patrol, a contemporary art space that investigates the intersection between contemporary art and corporate aesthetics.
ROBERTO VISANI
Roberto Visani received an MFA from the University of Michigan in 1997 and a BFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 1994. He has exhibited his work internationally at such venues as the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cleveland, OH; Barbican Galleries, London, UK; and the Ghana National Museum, Accra, Ghana. He has been an artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY; Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL; and The Cooper Union, NY. He is a past Fulbright scholar and a 2007 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in sculpture.
TIM GONCHOROFF
Through the lens of a research-based practice, I create interdisciplinary work that examines the scope of our material culture and the effects it has on the natural world. My work uses traditional crafting processes including, but not limited to, natural dyes, carpentry, and textile work as a conduit for investigating and documenting particular elements in environments that straddle the line between being natural and manmade. These environments act as microcosms of the human-nature relationship, which can include landfills, vacant lots, roadsides, or construction sites. It is within these locations that a peculiar phenomenon occurs, one where centuries of material use and disposal alters the evolution of the natural ecology, creating an environment where non-native plants from different parts of the world thrive atop a stratum of accumulated man-made materials. It is my goal, through installations and sculptural projects, to confront the role our contemporary consumer culture plays in the evolution of an ecology that dissolves the boundaries between what is natural and what is artificial. How much of the environments that surround us are the result of our ability to “control” it, or, is that “control” simply an illusion that fits within our
perspective of time?
JENNY HAGER
Jenny K. Hager is a Professor of Sculpture at the University of North Florida, where she has been teaching since 2006. She received her MFA in Sculpture and Digital Media from San Jose State University in San Jose, CA. Interested in a variety of processes and materials, including steel, cast iron, post-it notes, video, wood, digital photography and found objects, she finds inspiration in dreams, objects from her childhood, gadgets, sea life and other curiosities. She is also very interested in collaboration; the spirit of community important in both her teaching practice and in her own work.
Hager’s work has been exhibited across the country and recently in the Cymru Ironstone Castle Exhibition in Wales, the Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum in Latvia and Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri in Seggiano, Italy. Flight Lab, a video installation by Hager, has traveled to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and York, Pennsylvania. Hager’s most recent series “Second Line” celebrates diversity of culture, individual storytelling and the spirit of the Second Line tradition of New Orleans parade culture. In this series, Hager creates large-scale parade animals inspired by the Chinese zodiac and infused with a personal narrative.
Hager is an active member of the Jacksonville art community. She has collaborated on various projects with the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, CoRK, Ponte Vedra Cultural Center, MOCA, Hemming Park, Gerdau AmeriSteel, Atlantic Beach, the City of Jacksonville, and City Hall, to name a few. She has served on the MOCA Collections and Exhibitions committee, as well as the MOCA Education committee. Interested in promoting local artists and creating creative networks in Jacksonville, she has served on the steering committee for the Northeast Florida Sculptors group since its inception in 2009.
In 2014, Hager created Sculpture Walk, an outdoor sculpture park for downtown Jacksonville. Sculpture Walk, Inc., a registered 501(c)3, has hosted over 26 outdoor sculptures, bike racks and sculptural benches by international, national and local artists. https://sculpturewalkjax.com/sculptures/ She created a sculpture park in Jacksonville Beach, called UNF Seaside Sculpture Park, which showcases large-scale outdoor sculptures by UNF Sculpture students. The new park opened in the Summer of 2016. https://havic.org/unf-seaside-sculpture-park/ Hager and her husband, Lance Vickery, also created a Sculpture on Campus Program at UNF, which showcases large-scale outdoor sculpture, sculptural bike racks and benches by faculty and students.
Hager’s work has been exhibited across the country and recently in the Cymru Ironstone Castle Exhibition in Wales, the Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum in Latvia and Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri in Seggiano, Italy. Flight Lab, a video installation by Hager, has traveled to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and York, Pennsylvania. Hager’s most recent series “Second Line” celebrates diversity of culture, individual storytelling and the spirit of the Second Line tradition of New Orleans parade culture. In this series, Hager creates large-scale parade animals inspired by the Chinese zodiac and infused with a personal narrative.
Hager is an active member of the Jacksonville art community. She has collaborated on various projects with the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, CoRK, Ponte Vedra Cultural Center, MOCA, Hemming Park, Gerdau AmeriSteel, Atlantic Beach, the City of Jacksonville, and City Hall, to name a few. She has served on the MOCA Collections and Exhibitions committee, as well as the MOCA Education committee. Interested in promoting local artists and creating creative networks in Jacksonville, she has served on the steering committee for the Northeast Florida Sculptors group since its inception in 2009.
In 2014, Hager created Sculpture Walk, an outdoor sculpture park for downtown Jacksonville. Sculpture Walk, Inc., a registered 501(c)3, has hosted over 26 outdoor sculptures, bike racks and sculptural benches by international, national and local artists. https://sculpturewalkjax.com/sculptures/ She created a sculpture park in Jacksonville Beach, called UNF Seaside Sculpture Park, which showcases large-scale outdoor sculptures by UNF Sculpture students. The new park opened in the Summer of 2016. https://havic.org/unf-seaside-sculpture-park/ Hager and her husband, Lance Vickery, also created a Sculpture on Campus Program at UNF, which showcases large-scale outdoor sculpture, sculptural bike racks and benches by faculty and students.
LANCE VICKERY
d. lance vickery was raised in Florida. Early, as an aspiring two-dimensional artist, deeply rooted in formalism, Lance attended Florida State University, where he met Charles Hook. Hook changed Lance's perception of art and sculpture. Hook held the position that all "Sculpture is real, all painting and photography, no matter how realistic is abstract. Two dimensional work always requires the viewer to imagine the third dimension.”
That position struck a chord with Lance. He quickly transitioned in to working primarily in sculpture. After receiving his BFA in Sculpture from FSU, he moved to Kentucky. While there, Lance worked with Jack Gron, he received his MFA in Sculpture from University of Kentucky. Currently, Lance is teaching Sculpture and the Figure at the University of North Florida.
TINA OLDKNOW
Corning Museum Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass
Tina
Oldknow has been the curator of modern glass since 2000 and she is
responsible for all curatorial aspects of the glass collections dating
from 1900 to the present. During her time at the Museum, she has
reinstalled the Modern Glass and Contemporary Glass Galleries, and
curated many exhibitions, including Founders of American Studio Glass: Harvey K. Littleton, Masters of Studio Glass: Erwin Eisch, and Making Ideas: Experiments in Design at GlassLab.
Prior to her tenure at the Corning Museum, Oldknow held curatorial
and advisory positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the J.
Paul Getty Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Henry Art
Gallery at the University of Washington, and the Seattle Art Museum. She
has authored many publications, including Pilchuck: A Glass School (1996), Chihuly Persians (1996), Richard Marquis Objects (1997), Dante Marioni: Blown Glass (2000), William Morris: Animal / Artifact (with James Yood, 2000), 25 Years of New Glass Review (2005), Dan Dailey (with William Warmus and Milton Glaser, 2007), Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from The Corning Museum of Glass (2008), and Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection (2009). She served as editor of the Glass Art Society Journal from 1996 to 2001 and currently edits the Museum’s annual New Glass Review with Richard Price.
Oldknow holds a B.A. in Art History from the University of
California, Los Angeles, and an M.A. in Art History from the University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. A trustee of the American Craft Council
from 2003 to 2009, she presently serves on the advisory board of North
Lands Creative Glass, Caithness, Scotland and she is a member of the
International Council of Pilchuck Glass School.
MARSHA PELS
Marsha Pels is internationally known for sculpture which includes a
range of labor-intensive cast and fabricated objects, multi-media
installations and outdoor site-specific pieces. Her work explores the
transformation of found objects in a variety of materials. Ms. Pels
defines spaces within site-specific contexts in order to create
poetically charged psychological landscapes.
Ms. Pels has won numerous awards including a 1981 Public Art Fund Grant,
a Prix de Rome in 1984, a Fullbright Senior Scholar award to Germany in
1997, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2004, and most recently; a
2013 Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant.
Her work is included in collections such as Grounds for Sculpture,
Hamilton, NJ, Thomas Olbricht Stiftung, Berlin Germany, and the private
collection of Dorothy and Lewis Cullman, New York, NY.
Ms. Pels lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
CHRISTIAN BENEFIEL
Christian Benefiel
currently lives and works as a sculptor in Maryland. He holds a Masters of Fine
Arts from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Bachelors of Fine Art
from East Carolina University. He has exhibited his work in group and solo shows
internationally. He has done AiR programs with the Estonian Academy of Art.
Pirkkala Sculpture Park, Franconia Sculpture Park, The Vermont Studio Center,
and the Finnish Academy of Fine Art.
Christian has built and
operated both ferrous and nonferrous foundries for academic, public and private
institutions in the US and abroad. His work has been presented in institutional
lectures, panels and symposia. In summer 2009, He worked with a team from the
Jackson County Green Energy Park to build the worlds first blast furnace fueled
entirely by methane gas captured from a local landfill.
He has been recently
awarded The Hamiltonian Fellowship, A Post Graduate Fulbright grant and a
Maryland State arts Council Individual Artist Grant and teaches Sculpture and
other things at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown
West Virginia.
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Christian will join the seminar Weds 15th via Skype to present and discuss work produced at various residencies and workshops as well as share his Fulbright experience in Finland.
LUISA CALDWELL
Luisa Caldwell received a BA in Art History and studied in the MFA sculpture program at The University of Iowa. Caldwell has exhibited extensively over a twenty year period, including MASSMoCA, Socrates Sculpture Park, New Orleans Museum of Contemporary Art, Pepperdine University in Los Angeles and The Smack Mellon Gallery in NYC. She recently completed work at Franconia Sculpture Park as well as three large-scale sculptures through Percent for Art Program. She is currently working on an MTA Arts for Transit permanent installation at the Bronx Zoo subway station. Caldwell was awarded a 2010 Jerome Foundation Grant. She’s been reviewed by numerous publications including The New York Times and Art in America, and is in many public and private collections. Caldwell works and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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"Earth"
One of three in the Thought Bubbles series. 2008
Globes, mirror balls, soccer balls, fruit stickers, acrylic paint, steel & aluminum, 9ft x 5ft x 5ft
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Luisa will join the seminar Weds 8th to discuss 'How to Survive and Continue to Make Work'
She will be available for individual grad studio critiques weds pm and all day Thursday.
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