Community Corner
Four Corners Arts Center Present, 20th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit
The
Four Corners Arts Center is pleased to present their 20th Annual
Outdoor Sculpture Park - "Gestures
of That Other Life" on the grounds of the Meeting House. The park is open during daylight hours until
October. Opening reception is July 21st
from 1-3. FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC.
The
Arts Center is pleased to welcome back as curator of their outdoor sculpture
park, Kate Mullen. The chosen theme is, "Gestures of That Other Life" from
on a poem written by Rhode Island poet, David O’Connell in response to this
year’s scluptor, Wendy Klemperer’s work.
Wendy Klemperer earned a bachelor’s in biochemistry
at Harvard before moving to New York and earning a B.F.A. in sculpture at Pratt
Institute in 1983. Her work has been exhibited extensively in NYC and
throughout the United States, including installations at Socrates Sculpture
Park, Queens, NY, Bridgewater-Lustberg Gallery, NY, NY, Pratt Institute
Sculpture Park, Brooklyn, NY, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA,
and Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, as well as comprehensive solo
shows at Maine Audubon, Freeport, and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens,
Boothbay, organized by June LaCombe.
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David O’Connell’s chapbook, A Better Way to Fall, was awarded the 2013 Philbrick Poetry Award
from the Providence Athenaeum. His poetry has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Drunken Boat, Fugue, and Poet Lore, among other journals. He
has also received fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
Kate Mullen is past president of EVAC (Engaging
Visual Artist Collaborative) is an organization which is in charge of Rhode
Island College’sSculpture Tour, which “is an outdoor sculpture program on the Rhode Island College campus where
professional artists lease their sculptures to be displayed on campus in two
year cycles. The program is designed so that students will be exposed to an
extensive amount of sculptures throughout their college career at Rhode Island
College. The Sculpture Tour is a modern reflection on the
ever changing world of public art, a constant evolution in creativity.”