2008 Woodie Awards
Sculpture Walk artists get to work
Katie Gregowicz
Issue date: 9/13/07 Section: A&E
On the hill across from Evergreen Hall, a woman has been digging holes, but she is not looking for buried treasure. Dana Hildebrand, senior sculpture major, is working on her piece for the upcoming annual Sculpture Walk.
Each spring, 12 undergraduate and graduate sculpture students are picked to create a large-scale sculpture project to be displayed on campus for about a year in the hopes of winning a prize.
"The students receive a $750 grant from the Gateway Foundation in St. Louis to build a sculpture on campus," Thad Duhigg, chair of the Art & Design program, said.
The Sculpture Walk will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19. Observers will walk to each sculpture and listen to what the artist has to say about his or her piece. Duhigg said last year there were more than 200 people in attendance at the walk.
A visiting artist examines each piece and selects a third place winner who receives $250, a second place winner who receives $500 and a first place winner who receives $1,000. Winners are announced at a banquet on the same night as the walk.
Sculptor Ledelle Moe, who was in the March issue of Sculpture magazine, will be the visiting artist this year. She will also give a lecture Tuesday, Oct. 17.
Aaron Held, a graduate sculpture student at SIUE, is working on his sculpture next to Parking Lot B.
"Mine is a pretty compact piece," said Held, who calls his sculpture "interactive."
"You can use the two pistons on it to move it up and down like a motorcycle," he said.
Held said the piece is referencing masculinity and society's "car culture."
It is not completed yet, but Held hopes to get it finished in about three weeks.
Hildebrand's sculpture is also a work in progress, which she calls "Landscape".
"My sculpture is a series of holes and wooden columns about 30 yards long," Hildebrand said. "It's not some huge visionary piece. People can actually walk through it and contemplate what they think about it."
Each spring, 12 undergraduate and graduate sculpture students are picked to create a large-scale sculpture project to be displayed on campus for about a year in the hopes of winning a prize.
"The students receive a $750 grant from the Gateway Foundation in St. Louis to build a sculpture on campus," Thad Duhigg, chair of the Art & Design program, said.
The Sculpture Walk will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19. Observers will walk to each sculpture and listen to what the artist has to say about his or her piece. Duhigg said last year there were more than 200 people in attendance at the walk.
A visiting artist examines each piece and selects a third place winner who receives $250, a second place winner who receives $500 and a first place winner who receives $1,000. Winners are announced at a banquet on the same night as the walk.
Sculptor Ledelle Moe, who was in the March issue of Sculpture magazine, will be the visiting artist this year. She will also give a lecture Tuesday, Oct. 17.
Aaron Held, a graduate sculpture student at SIUE, is working on his sculpture next to Parking Lot B.
"Mine is a pretty compact piece," said Held, who calls his sculpture "interactive."
"You can use the two pistons on it to move it up and down like a motorcycle," he said.
Held said the piece is referencing masculinity and society's "car culture."
It is not completed yet, but Held hopes to get it finished in about three weeks.
Hildebrand's sculpture is also a work in progress, which she calls "Landscape".
"My sculpture is a series of holes and wooden columns about 30 yards long," Hildebrand said. "It's not some huge visionary piece. People can actually walk through it and contemplate what they think about it."
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