23rd Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition (2009-2010)

April 18, 2009 - March 1, 2010

Juror: Daniel Stetson

Curator: Hank T. Foreman

Assistant Curator: Brook Bower

23rd Rosen Sculpture Site Map (PDF 2.7M)

This year for the first time, the 23rd Rosen Sculpture program partners with the Downtown Boone Development Association's (DBDA) Public Art Program to offer two additional sculptors a chance to participant in the Rosen program with the Community Choice Award. This new addition to the program has been made possible with to the continued generosity of Martin and Doris Rosen, which provided support for this partnership.

Jon Howson and Douglas M. Gruizenga, have joined the Rosen Program and have placed their work off campus in downtown Boone. The partnership, says Mary Ella Baker, the DBDA's Public Art Program Director, is significant for the town as well as for the university. "I am thrilled about the DBDA Public Art Program's recent partnership with the Rosen Sculpture Program," says Baker, "This partnership reinforces ASU's and the Town of Boone's involvement in and dedication to western North Carolina's growing arts community. The Rosen Sculpture Program is a well-established program that has proven its effectiveness through its outstanding staff, the program's popularity as part of An Appalachian Summer Festival and the talented artists who participate in the annual competition. The Public Art Program is proud to take part in this exceptional program."

The DBDA Public Art Program collaborates with the Watauga County Arts Council and the Public Art Committee to provide public art for downtown Boone. The Public Art Program's goals include the addition of sculptures, downtown gateways, murals and streetscape improvements in the downtown area. The residents of Boone have been promoting a thriving arts community for years and care deeply about investing in downtown Boone's future; public art is a fantastic outlet for emphasizing our civic pride and Boone's unique cultural character.

About the Juror

Daniel E. Stetson, the Executive Director of the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida, graciously serves as the juror for the 23rd Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition.

Since 1996, Daniel E. Stetson has served as the Executive Director of the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL and possesses over twenty-nine years of museum directorial and curatorial experience. Stetson has curated numerous exhibitions and organized major sculpture projects throughout his career, which include the Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition , now entering its 9th year and the Lakeland Invitational, entering it's 2nd year.

Stetson has served as a grants review panel member nationally on many projects including: the I.M.L.S. General Operating Support Grant, LOG program, Florida Arts Council Visual Arts Organization Grants and Art Fellowship, the Texas Commission on the Art, and for the Iowa Arts Council. He has also served as an American Association of Museums Accreditation site visit team member. In addition, Stetson also acts as the Vice President of the Florida Association of Museums (FAM) and Vice President of the Florida Art Museum Directors Association (FAMDA). He also sits on the steering committee for Polk Vision and Lakeland Vision and has been the President of the Cultural Arts Board and Board of Director's executive committee of the Polk Arts Alliance.

Steston holds an M.F.A. in Museology from Syracuse University, a B.A. in Art History from State University of New York, SUNY Potsdam and is an inaugural class graduate of the MyRegion.org Leadership Program, Leadership Lakeland graduate and is a graduate of the inaugural class of Polk Leadership.

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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