Release Date: November 12, 2007
Symposium on public art planned at Kennesaw State
Contact: Cheryl Anderson Brown, Assistant Director of Public Relations
770-499-3417 or cbrown@kennesaw.edu
KENNESAW, Ga.—The Museum & Galleries at Kennesaw State University will present a symposium about public art at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13 in Howard Logan Stillwell Theater. The symposium panel will include public artist and KSU Professor of Art Ayokunle Odeleye, public art conservator Jeffrey Loy, Fulton County Arts administrator Lisa Tuttle, Red Cielo founder Ernesto Cuevas, and sculptor Charles Wright. A reception will follow in the Fine Arts Gallery, which is currently hosting an exhibition of Wright’s work.
The symposium will explore what public art is and what challenges and opportunities are presented to public artists today. KSU Associate Professor of Art History Dinah McClintock will moderate the panel.
This event is free and open to the public. Funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the KSU Student Visual Arts Committee.
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Kennesaw State University is a comprehensive, residential institution with a growing student population exceeding 20,000 from 132 countries. The third largest state university out of 35 institutions in the University System of Georgia, KSU offers more than 55 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
The KSU College of the Arts is one of only four Georgia institutions to have achieved full national accreditation for all of its arts programs.