Call to Artists
SculptFest08 - September 13-October 26
“Human Interventions and the Industrial Landscape”
WEST RUTLAND, VT- The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center invites sculptors to submit proposals for SculptFest08, September 13-October 26. The theme for this year’s event is “Human Interventions and the Industrial Landscape” and guest curator is Carlos Dorrien, Sculpture Professor at Wellesley College.
Vermont’s landscape abounds with evidence of human alterations to nature. Reminders of former activity are particularly abundant in the area of the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center with quarries opening into the earth, equipment remnants and the modified landscape itself. SculptFest08 offers the opportunity for artists to respond to and interpret the post-industrial environment. Some will focus on the spirit of the past, some will offer a vision for the future and others will create installations that are totally unexpected.
Ten artists will be selected to create large-scale outdoor installations responsive to the theme and site. Inactive marble quarries, decaying structures, abandoned machinery, deep pools, rock cliffs, fields filled with stacked slabs of marble and the encroaching vegetation of the Green Mountains that line the horizon are among the features of the area.
Appointments for site tours may be made through the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center. Submissions, as described below, are due by July 7. Notification will occur before the end of July and artists will be provided access to the site from that day forward to the opening reception on Saturday, September 13. An artist’s stipend is awarded for selected proposals and an illustrated catalog will be published.
Proposals should include a project description on one or two pages, sketches or other visual representations, resume, optional statement and up to ten 35mm slides (or digital images on a CD) portraying previous site-specific work. Materials will be returned if accompanied by a self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage.
Address submissions to “SculptFest08,” the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, P.O. Box 495, West Rutland, VT 05777. For more information, visit http://www.carvingstudio.org/, or contact us at 802-438-2097, info@carvingstudio.org or carving@vermontel.net.
