Public Art News -Sept 2011

September 16, 2011

PUBLIC ART NEWS

Wind in My Sails

At Veterans Boulevard and Houma Boulevard in Metairie
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Installed in August, 2011

 Link to video foootage on The Times-Picayune website: http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2011/08/three_more_sculptures_on_veter.html

Gateway Sculpture for the Town of Jean Lafitte

Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
Installed in June, 2011

Post-installation photo.

September 4, 2011 during Tropical Storm Lee flooding. (camera phone photo taken by Randy Nicholson, Director of Jefferson Parish Dept of Streets)

Gude Drive Maintenance Facility in Rockville, MD.

Proposal completed. Selection decision expected late September 2011.  

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Pharmacy/Biology Building Medicinal Garden.

Proposal in process – due October 2011.

Current Exhibitions -Sept. 2011

EXHIBITIONS: September 2011

Fifth Outdoor Sculpture Biennial

Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi.
August 2011-August 2013

To&Fro

All Aboard! Sculpture Exhibition, “a sculptural study of time”

Historic Train Depot, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
September 8- September 28, 2011

3:30 a.m. morning vine

July Group Shows

July 08, 2011

Closing this weekend in Baton Rouge… through July 10, 2011.
Then, on to Kentucky.

The 10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition.

organized by The University of Hawaii Art Gallery
2535 McCarthy Mall Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: 808-956-6888
www.hawaii.edu/artgallery/shoebox/index.html

Traveling exhibit through Mar 2012.
2011 Venues:

• California State Univ, Dominguez Hills, Univ Art Gallery, Carson, California. Jan 23–Mar 6, 2011
• Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, Alabama. Mar 27–May 8, 2011
• Louisiana State Univ Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. May 29–Jul 10, 2011
• Murray State, The Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray, Kentucky. Oct 2–Nov 13, 2011
• Univ of Guam, Isla Center for the Arts, Mangilao, Guam. Dec 4–Jan 15, 2012

 My piece: Congressional Yes Man Leo

Read the article written by Robin Miller for the Baton Rouge Advocate Sunday edition (pdf link): Inside the box 

And….  opening this weekend in Baton Rouge… July 9, 2011

DECADEnce: 10th Annual Summer Invitational

Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Exhibition Gallery
Shaw Center for the Arts
100 Lafayette Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70801
artgallery@lsu.edu
225.389.7180
Open Tuesday—Friday 10am-5pm
Weekends 12pm-5pm
www.glassellgallery.org

July 9-August 7, 2011
Opening Reception: Sat, July 9, 7-9PM

Here’s the very different and fun piece I made.
10-dence bah-roke