Media Contacts:
Sherry McIntyre, College of Design, 919/515-8311
Chad Austin, News Services, 919/515-3470

Oct. 21, 2003

Noted Sculptor to Speak at Art Conference Co-Hosted by NC State, Meredith

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Noted sculptor Alison Saar will deliver two public addresses as part of the 2003 joint meeting of the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) and Tri-State Sculptors. The conference is being co-hosted by North Carolina State University’s College of Design and Meredith College’s Art Department, and will be held Wednesday, Oct. 29 to Sunday, Nov. 2.

Saar will deliver the keynote address at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30 in Stewart Theatre, located in the Talley Student Center on the NC State campus. A reception follows the lecture. Saar’s address follows the opening of a “Members’ Juried Exhibition” at the Gallery of Art & Design, also located in the Talley Student Center.

Saar will also conduct a public lecture in Meredith College’s Jones Auditorium at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 1.

Both lectures are free and open to the public. The “Members’ Juried Exhibition” runs from Oct. 22 to Dec. 17.

Saar’s work has been featured at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Saar’s “Compton Nocturne” is in the permanent collection at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC-Greensboro.

SECAC is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote art in higher education by facilitating cooperation among teachers and administrators in universities, colleges and junior colleges, professional art schools, and museums. The organization represents a 12-state area of the Southeast but membership and participation is not geographically restricted. Tri-State Sculptors, a group formed in 1978 by artists from Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, exists to promote public awareness and appreciation of sculpture in the tri-state area.

SECAC/Tri-State Conference chairs are Charles Joyner, professor of art and design at NC State, Beth Mulvaney, assistant professor of art at Meredith College, and Lisa F. Pearce, assistant professor of art at Meredith College.

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NOTE TO EDITORS: Alison Saar is available for interviews prior to the conference. For information on how to contact Saar, contact Chad Austin in News Services at 919/515-3470 or Sherry McIntyre with the NC State College of Design at 919/515-8311.