The Sculpture Question

Paper presented, and subsequent panel discussion with: Jordan Baseman, artist and Head of Sculpture, Royal College of Art; Anna Moszynska, art historian and author, Sculpture Now; Emma Hart, artist; Jon Wood, Research Curator, Henry Moore Institute, and co-editor, Modern Sculpture Reader Chair: Terry Perk, sculptor and Reader in Fine Art and Associate Head of the School of Fine Art, UCA

Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park: An Introduction (GSU 25th Anniversary Revised Edition)

Originally published in February 1994, this edition was updated with minor editorial changes for GSU\u27s 25th Anniversary, and includes the 25th Anniversary logo. Describes the history of the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University, including the 1976 exhibition, The Sculptor, the Campus, and the Prairie. Includes a map locating sculptures within the park

The Role of Sculpture in Communicating Archaeology in Museums

In this article I discuss an innovative museum strategy that aims to create a more evocative and engaging visitor experience. I argue that the inclusion of contemporary art, and specifically sculpture in exhibition design, activates visitor agency, empowering the public to take part in interpreting the human past. I explore the unique sensory engagement sculpture provides and the important role this can play for the public presentation of archaeology. I also examine an existing project that has called upon sculpture as an interpretive resource at the National Museum of Scotland, discussing its impact on visitors and its contribution to the discipline. I conclude with a discussion of a selection of living sculptors including Rachel Whiteread and Antony Gormley whose work, I argue, signals exciting opportunities for future artist-curator collaboration. By considering both current examples and future possibilities, this article builds a case for sculpture as an important and dynamic tool for the public understanding of archaeology in museums

Our House (Divided)

Program for Our House (Divided) event at Governors State University on August 16, 2009 featuring Magda Brown, Marshall Titus, and a musical performance by string quartet Red Riding Hood.https://opus.govst.edu/nmsp_memorabilia/1005/thumbnail.jp

Invitation to Introducing a Museum in the Prairie

Event invitation for Introducing a Museum in the Prairie on August 23, 2008 which featured the first showing of Seth McClellan\u27s video about the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University.https://opus.govst.edu/nmsp_memorabilia/1003/thumbnail.jp

Artificial earth sculpture

William Newsham Blair (1841-91) was born in Scotland, and trained there as an engineer and surveyor. He emigrated to Dunedin at the end of 1863 and took employment with the Otago Provincial Survey Department at the beginning of the new year. In 1871, he became District Engineer of Public Works, and in 1878, the year after election as a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, was appointed Engineer-in-Charge of Public Works in the South Island. In 1884, Blair moved to Wellington as Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. In 1890, he became Engineer-in-Chief and Under Secretary for Public Works (Furkert 1953: 117). During his career as engineer, Blair had many opportunities to travel throughout New Zealand. For example, in the 1870s he travelled widely throughout Otago and Canterbury (including traversing the Southern Alps five times) while on reconnaissance surveys for possible railway routes, and in the 1880s he visited the King Country to report on the proposed North Island Main Trunk. It was no doubt on these and similar journeys that Blair became very much aware of the changes which man was making to the landscape. A few earlier writers had expressed concern about the wholesale clearing of the natural vegetation, but none had noted the scale of man-induced erosion and change. Similarly Blair refused to accept a commonly held theory that rainfall increased if forests were planted, and decreased if the land was denuded. In some ways, Blair may be compared with George Perkins Marsh in the United States. Over two decades earlier Marsh had already recognised that man was a potent force in changing his environment. It is interesting to speculate if indeed Blair had found his inspiration in the writings of this American naturalist. Introduction by R.P. Hargreave

Sculpture and Space

What is distinctive about sculpture as an artform? I argue that it is related to the space around it as painting and the other pictorial arts are not. I expound and develop Langer's suggestive comments on this issue, before asking what the major strengths and weaknesses of that position might be