Panelists include The Sculpture Center’s visiting artist Ward Shelley, an artist based in New York and Connecticut and a spring 2018 SWAP artist at SPACES, whose large scale installations have come to be identified as a sort of “performance architecture”; Jonas Sebura, Assistant Professor of Sculpture/Expanded Media at Kent State University; and Anthony Warnick, full time lecturer at the Cleveland Institute of Art, artist-in-residence at Oberlin College, and Co-Director/Co-Curator of The Muted Horn in Cleveland, OH; with moderator Corrie Slawson, a mixed media artist represented by SHAHEEN Modern and Contemporary (Cleveland, OH) and Metropolitan Gallery (Austin TX).

The moderated panel discussions focus on selected contemporary issues in sculpture, issues facing artists living and working outside major metropolitan cities, and strategies to have sculptors’ work shown beyond our region. The panelists include a mid-career sculptor from outside our region by invitation and one or two regional sculptors. These panels are open to everyone who is interested — the public, sculptors, artists of all media, academics and students.