The University of Saint Francis Welcomes the Public to “An Evening with Sandy Skoglund”

October 15, 2007, Fort Wayne, Indiana: The School of Creative Arts will host “An Evening with Sandy Skoglund” on Friday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the North Campus Auditorium off of Spring Street. 

Skoglund will discus her installation, Breathing Glass, and her photographs in her Truth Between Opposition Exhibition at the Weatherhead Gallery as part of the free, Closer Look Lecture Series. Sales of limited edition, autographed posters of Breathing Glass will be sold before and after the lecture and the Weatherhead Galley will be open for the public until 9:30 p.m. This exhibit and lecture is made possible in part by an American Masterpieces Grant provided by the Indiana Arts Commission from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Skoglund is famous for her elaborate room-sized installations and resulting Ciba-chrome photographs, which present environments where everyday objects are combined with unexpected elements to suggest the anxieties and dangers of contemporary life. The staged, fantastical images typically present surreal situations in color-infused environments such the 1,000 mechanically choreographed glass dragonflies that flutter in a background of ethereal blue in Breathing Glass.

In the course of her career, Skoglund has participated in over 100 solo exhibitions and has had her work featured in 64 public collections, namely the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Centre Pompidou, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

This lecture is free to the public.  For more information, call 260-434-7591 or visit the website at www.sf.edu/art. The School of Creative Arts (SOCA) is an accredited school by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). This program is presented in part by Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne, the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

The University of Saint Francis, founded in 1890, is a comprehensive university in the Catholic Franciscan tradition, offering undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 2,100 students from a broad geographic region.