February 12, 2009 Issue
Rosen Artist Residency Program to Feature 2008 Winner Shawn Skabelund
Artist Shawn Skabelund, winner of ASU’s 22nd Annual Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition, will be featured in a weeklong residency held on campus Monday to Friday, February 16 to 20. Skabelund’s sculpture, “Brassing Out,” was named the Martin and Doris Rosen Award Winner during An Appalachian Summer Festival’s Annual Sculpture Walk on July 26, 2008, and is currently located in front of Walker Hall on the ASU campus.
As part of the Rosen Artist Residency program, Skabelund will present a public lecture on Wednesday, February 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 1102, the Lecture Hall at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. A reception in honor of the artist will follow. In addition to the public lecture, Skabelund will work with students of the university’s Department of Art, conducting class lectures, as well as group and individual critiques. His activities on campus have been organized by Department of Art lecturer Sean Matthews.
Since 1993, Skabelund has maintained an active exhibition schedule, showing drawings, sculptures and numerous large-scale, site-specific, place-based installations at venues throughout the United States, many of which were part of one-person shows. In 1998, a retrospective of this artist’s work was shown at Wayne State University; the show included drawings from graduate school, recent sculptures, and three large-scale installations, including “A Toll on Earth,” which was reviewed in the 1999 January-February issue of Sculpture.
Skabelund has been recognized by arts organizations in Alaska, Arizona, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio. His awards include a 1996 Creative Artists Grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts for “A Path that Joins,” and “Divides”; the 1999 William & Dorothy Yeck Award for Temple of the Sibyl; and a 2003 Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts for “Virga (The Hunt for Water).” In 2004, Skabelund became the first Flagstaff artist to receive a grant from the Phoenix Art Museum’s Contemporary Forum. For more information on Skabelund’s work, click to www.shawnskabelund.com.
The Rosen Artist Residency Program continues a longstanding partnership between the Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition and the university’s Department of Art.
For additional information on the competition, exhibition, residency program and Skabelund’s full itinerary, click to www.rosensculpture.org.
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