22nd Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition (2008-2009)

April 20, 2008 - March 1, 2009

Juror: Dr. Sarah Clark-Langager

Curator: Hank T. Foreman

Assistant Curator: Brook Bower

22nd Rosen Site Map (PDF 1.4M)

Rosen Self-Guided Audio Sculpture Tour Now Available

This audio program, used in conjuction with the 22nd Rosen Site Map, is designed to assist and improve the visitor's experience with the Rosen Outdoor Sculpture program. The program includes commentary from the Turchin Center's Director and Chief Curator Hank Foreman; 2008 juror Sarah Clark-Langager; comments from each participating artist; and additional comments from Project Director Brook Bower ... Learn more

About the Juror

Sarah Clark-Langager has been curator of the renowned Outdoor Sculpture Collection and director of the Western Gallery at WWU since 1988. Before coming to Western, she was involved on both coasts in educational and curatorial roles at such museums as Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), Seattle Art Museum and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (Utica). Specializing in 20th century and contemporary art, she also acts as an advisor to may institutions initiating public art collections and policy.

The Western Gallery acts as a center for the display, discussion and exchange of ideas on critical issues in contemporary art from our region and from the national and international art scene. Exhibits, which offer a variety of artistic styles in many different mediums, change frequently.

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.

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