Sculpture Symposium Holding Thursday Artist Talks
The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, a six-week event that has brought eight internationally known sculptors to the University of Maine campus in order to create works of public art for spaces in Bangor, Old Town and Orono, will hold an artist talk each Thursday, starting Aug. 2, during symposium.
The talks are free and open to the public. They will be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the McIntire Room of Buchanan Alumni House on the UMaine campus.
The schedule is as follows:
- Aug. 2: Hwang Seung-Woo and Tim Shay
- Aug. 9: Andreas Von Huene and Johnny Turner
- Aug. 16: Koichi Ogino and Ton Kalle
- Aug. 23: Shan-Chi Teng and Lee Zih-Cing
The symposium, which is being held this year in partnership with UMaine, is located in the Steam Plant parking lot on College Avenue in Orono. The site is free to visit and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week until the symposium closes on Aug. 30.
Contact: Tilan Langley, (207) 263-6057 or tilan@schoodicsculpture.org; Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777 or jessica.bloch@umit.maine.edu