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Sculpture Space (Utica)
Sculpture Space is an art studio and sculpture park in Utica, New York, United States. Founded in 1976, it holds a residency program for about 20 sculptors each year, giving them access to an industrial space where large-scale works can be built. It is unusual among arts residency programs in its focus on sculpture, as well as its location in an urban area rather than a rural artists retreat. History In the wake of New York City's 1975 fiscal crisis, some funding for the arts began to be diverted into the rest of the state. In 1975, an arts instructor at a local college sought a place to complete a large metal sculpture. One of his students suggested he could rent space from his father, who owned the Utica Steam Engine and Boiler Works. Other sculptors heard of the arrangement and asked to take part, resulting in the Boiler Works renting a building to the artists. In the first year, six sculptors had studios in the newly named Sculpture Space. In 1978, Sculpture Space incorp ...
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Utica, New York
Utica () is the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The tenth-most populous city in New York, its population was 65,283 in the 2020 census. It is located on the Mohawk River in the Mohawk Valley at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, approximately west-northwest of Albany, east of Syracuse and northwest of New York City. Utica and the nearby city of Rome anchor the Utica–Rome metropolitan area comprising all of Oneida and Herkimer counties. Formerly a river settlement inhabited by the Mohawk Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, Utica attracted European-American settlers from New England during and after the American Revolution. In the 19th century, immigrants strengthened its position as a layover city between Albany and Syracuse on the Erie and Chenango Canals and the New York Central Railroad. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city's infrastructure contributed to its success as a manufacturing center and defined its role as ...
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Alan Berliner
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Jina Valentine
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Frank Smullin
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Anna Mlasowsky
Anna Mlasowsky (born 1984) is a German artist. She is known for her experimental and boundary pushing work in glass and is recognized as one of the leading female artist working in glass today. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Art and Design New York, thEuropean Museum for Contemporary Glass the Museum of Northwest Art, the Bellevue Arts Museum, thGlass Factory Museumin Boda, Sweden, the Tacoma Museum of Glass, USA and thStockholm Architecture Museumin Sweden. Her work has been featured in American Craft, thShanghai Museum of GlassMagazine, PBS Discovery Channel Canada, and Half Cut Tea. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass (USA) thToyama Glass Art Museum(Japan), the Castello Sforzesco in Milan (Italy), the Museum of American Glass (USA) thGlasmuseum EbeltoftDenmark) thEuropean Museum of Modern Glass(Germany) and the Seto City Art Museum (Japan) . Biography Mlasowsky grew up in East Germany and first encountered glass makers ...
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Jia-Jen Lin
Jia-Jen Lin () is a Taiwanese-American visual artist based in New York City and Taichung. Her work spans several media, including sculpture, video, photography, and collaborative performance. Lin uses her artwork as a way to investigate the human body in its role as an experiential interface for the mind and experience. She was a resident at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York in 2014. See also *Taiwanese art External links Artist's website* Jia-Jen Lin aInternational Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)* Jia-Jen Lin aPerth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ..., Australia * Jia-Jen Lin aSculpture SpaceJia-Jen Lin Vimeo channelJia-Jen Lin InstagramJia-Jen Lin Facebook Page References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Jia-Jen Living pe ...
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Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Juliana Cerqueira Leite (born 1981) is a Brazilian sculptor based in New York, known for creating large-scale works that explores the physical presence of the human body. She is considered to push the boundaries of sculpture. Life and education Leite (pronounced: ˈleɪt͡ʃˌɘ) was born and grew up in Brazil and studied sculpture in the United Kingdom at Chelsea College of Arts, graduating with an MFA in sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She then undertook an MA in Drawing at Camberwell College of Art. Artwork Leite's artwork often combines performance and sculpture. The sculptural materials she uses are wide-ranging and include: hydrocal, FGR-95, plaster, glass fibre, steel, and pigment. To create her artworks, Leite often makes casts from clay, using her own body and movement to develop forms. Leite has also produced site specific and video installation works. Leite has been inspired by ancient cultures and events, including excavations at Pompe ...
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Jimmy Kuehnle
James Edward Kuehnle (born July 24, 1979) is an American contemporary artist who lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. Early life Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1979, Kuehnle received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture from Truman State University in 2001, and a MFA in sculpture from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2006. Career Kuehnle is known for interactive inflatables, site-specific installations and public performances. He researched public art and sculpture as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow in Japan. He taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Alabama in Huntsville. Kuehnle is an assistant professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and most recently, greenlit a display of soulless generative AI inside of the school, an institution for artists. His work has featured public performance art treks through rural and urban cities in the United States including Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Austin, Texas; Houston, Texas; St. L ...
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Irena Jůzová
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