21st Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition (2007-2008)

May 1, 2007 - February 29, 2008

Juror: Shannon Fitzgerald

Curator: Hank T. Foreman

Assistant Curator: Brook Bower

About the Juror

Shannon Fitzgerald is an independent curator and writer based in St. Louis. Recent publications include Larry Krone: Artist/Entertainer (2006), Ruby Osorio: Story of A Girl (Who Awakes Far, Far Away) and Dzine: Punk Funk (2005), Yun-Fei Ji: The Empty City and Michael Lin (2004) all of which accompanied exhibitions she curated for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. She was Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, where she worked from 2000-2007, and curated the thematic group exhibitions Staging: Janieta Eyre, Julie Moos, Zwelethu Mthethwa (2002) and co-curated with Tumelo Mosaka the Contemporary's inaugural and traveling exhibition A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad (2003). She has curated solo exhibitions of new work by international artists: Larry Krone, Michael Paul Britto, Ruby Osorio, Dzine, Keith Piper, Yun-Fei Ji, Polly Apfelbaum, William Pope.L, and Michael Lin, among others. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and a Master of Arts degree in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Prior to moving to St. Louis, Fitzgerald worked at the Institute of Visual Arts (inova), University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Fitzgerald is currently teaching in the department of Art and Art History at Webster University, St. Louis.

About the Curator

Hank Foreman serves as Assistant Vice Chancellor of Arts and Cultural Affairs as well as Director and Chief Curator of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts for Appalachian State University. He obtained his M.A. in Art Education from Appalachian, having completed undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with a concentration in Painting and Sculpture. His duties include the administrative responsibilities for An Appalachian Summer Festival, the Performing Arts Series, Farthing Auditorium and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts.

During his tenure at Appalachian State, Foreman has taken part in the organization of numerous exhibitions, including the associated lectures, symposia, and publications. He has worked closely with the university's Department of Art, and a wide variety of other campus and community groups, to make gallery resources available to all. One of his earliest exhibitions at Appalachian, Views From Ground Level: Art and Ecology in the Late Nineties, brought internationally acclaimed artists, historians, and critics to the campus and received national attention.

Foreman is also an exhibiting studio artist, and participates in regional and national conferences as a presenter and panelist.

About the Assistant Curator

Brook Bower serves as the Assistant Curator for the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (TCVA) located at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Bower's professional activities include curating exhibitions, lecturing, consulting on competition management, serving as a juror for local competitions, mentoring future art management students and managing several national art competitions including the Rosen Sculpture Competition, the Halpert Biennial and the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition. Bower also serves as the Acting Registrar, providing collections management support for the TCVA's Permanent Collection containing 1,072+ objects and managing the Intra-Campus Loan Program.

Bower received a BS in Art Management and a BFA in Ceramics from Appalachian's Department of Art in 2001. Following her undergraduate degrees, she has concentrated on furthering her education by attending conferences, courses and workshops expanding her knowledge of curatorship, exhibition design, and collections management. Bower also designs and leads museum training workshops. She serves on multiple committees that concentrate on community enhancement utilizing the visual arts. These committees include the Looking Glass Gallery Committee, the Downtown Boone Development Association's Public Art Committee, the AppalCART's Federal Transit Authority (FTA) Grant Committee and the Robert F. Gilley Recording Studio Gallery Committee. Additionally, Bower serves as the faculty advisor for the Arts Management Organization (AMO).

In addition, Bower is an active exhibiting artist. Her primary media concentration is sculptural ceramics, however, she also delves into other media including collage and photography. She incorporates theses media along with alternative techniques to create her unique style. Her most recent body of work entitled Vessels of Consequence, explored parallelism of the physical constraints of the human and ceramic vessels through a combination of ceramics and collage. Currently, she is documenting and investigating land and culture loss in Southeastern Louisiana in conjunction with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) located in Cocodrie, LA.

Credits / Acknowledgements

The following people have been instrumental in lending their assistance and expertise to make this program a success:

Hank Foreman, Director & Chief Curator
Brook Bower Greene, Assistant Curator & Project Director
Tasha Nunn, Exhibitions Coordinator for the Turchin Center
Paul Grant, Guest Services
Sara Gordon, Gallery Intern
Gallery Assistants: Dayna Seman, Maloree Sheets, Jennifer Livingston, Blair Brown, Carrie Webb, Tyler West, Bradley Pearce, Reese Bolton and James Easley
Gary Profitt of Boone Crane
Staff of the ASU Safety Office: Beth Clark and Evan Rowe
Staff of the ASU Grounds Crew: Jim Bryan
The Staff of The Office of Design and Construction: Clyde Robbins and Patrick Beville
Department of Art: Sonny Struss, Sean Matthews and Olu Amoda
Photographers: Beck Long, Installation Photographer and Troy Tuttle: Sculpture Photographer

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