Contact:
Jan Stoffel, Art and Cultural Affairs Coordinator
janstoff@cityofdubuque.org [mailto:janstoff@cityofdubuque.org]
www.cityofdubuque.org/artontheriver [http://www.cityofdubuque.org/artontheriver]
January 9, 2013 - For Immediate Release
Sculpture Proposals Sought for 2013 - 2014 Art on the River Public Art Program
DUBUQUE, Iowa – The City of Dubuque, Iowa, is soliciting proposals from qualified artists for the 2013 - 2014 Art on the River public art program displaying works of sculpture throughout the Port of Dubuque.
This is the eighth year of Art on the River and up to 10 proposals consisting of works of sculpture will be selected for display at the Port of Dubuque from July 11, 2013, to June 30, 2014. Applications are available online at www.cityofdubuque.org/artontheriver or may be obtained by contacting Jan Stoffel, Arts and Cultural Affairs Coordinator at 563-690-6064 or at artontheriver@cityofdubuque.org. Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. CST on Monday, February 25, 2013.
Art on the River is part of the Dubuque City Council’s Arts and Culture initiative. Working in conjunction with the Arts and Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, the Dubuque Museum of Art and a volunteer committee made up of artists, educators and city staff, the City has identified highly visible locations at the Port of Dubuque to display selected artwork. The Port of Dubuque is a 90-acre riverfront campus which features the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquariums, Grand River Center conference center, Grand Harbor Resort and WaterPark, Diamond Jo Casino, historic Dubuque Star Brewery, and Dubuque Shot Tower.
A panel of three credentialed jurors reviews the artist applications and makes a recommendation to the Commission and the City Council on the selection of artwork. Jurors for the 2013-2014 exhibit are:
• Seth Myers is a conceptual artist and a dedicated arts educator currently working as an Assistant Professor of Art & Communication at Loras College in Dubuque, IA. He received a BA in Art from Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, and his MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. He also attended Goldsmiths College in London, England, where he practiced full-time studio art as a part of his undergraduate studies. Over the past 12 years, his work has been exhibited internationally at venues that include the New Fangle New Media Exhibition of GenArts in San Francisco, the Unge Kunstneres Samfung Gallery in Oslo, Norway, the Berliner Kunstsalon in Berlin, Germany, and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba. His work has also been recognized in international art publications including Art Nexus, Artist Magazine-Taiwan, and Japan-based Shift Online Magazine.
• Sean O'Harrow has been the Executive Director of the University of Iowa Art Museum in Iowa City, IA., since 2010. A native of Hawaii, O'Harrow earned his doctorate in history of art from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1997 and a bachelors degree of Fine Arts (art history) from Harvard University in 1990. He oversees the management and care of UIMA collections as well as its curatorial, educational, fundraising and administrative activities. He was instrumental in helping the UIMA house, preserve and display its vast collection at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, following the flood of 2008 that devastated the University of Iowa arts campus. He served as the Executive Director of the Figge from 2007 until 2010. Prior to arriving in Iowa, he was an Official Fellow of St. Catharine's College in the University of Cambridge and senior executive in the investment banking sector in London. He currently serves on the Iowa Arts Council Board of Directors.
• Laura Primozic is an artist and the Instructional Technician at Illinois State University in Normal, IL. Primozic received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota in 2010. Her work has been exhibited across the country: Seattle, WA; Lincoln, NE; Minneapolis, MN; Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA and Schuylerville, NY. She also has work in the collections of the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN; Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; Saratoga Clay Center; and Schuylerville, NY. Primozic has been making work surrounding the idea of the vast overwhelming arctic landscape and representing it on a micro scale since 2006. She is interested in absurd interactions between man-made objects and natural landscapes. The highly crafted construction and simple design blurs the definition of beauty, preciousness, and the pristine.
The 2012-2013 Art on the River Exhibit, consisting of ten works of sculpture, will be on exhibit through June 30, 2013. All of the sculptures are for sale and can be installed in both indoor and outdoor areas. For additional information, please contact Jan Stoffel at janstoff@cityofdubuque.org or call 563-690-6064. The exhibit is free, can be viewed sunrise to sunset year-round, and is accessible.
More information is available at www.cityofdubuque.org/artontheriver.
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