Imagillaboration Collaborative Sculpture Project

GROUP 10 FACILITATOR

Bruce Allen, Shreveport Louisiana

Bruce Allen lives in Shreveport , Louisiana and currently is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, where he has taught studio arts since 1983. In addition, he has been Art Show Consultant for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Western Art Show and Sale in Cheyenne , Wyoming every summer for the past 27 years. He was Special Advisor to the Shaanxi Institute of Chinese Art in Xian, China from 2000-2005 and Guest Artist at St. Hellen's College of Art in St. Hellen's, Great Britain .

He has served as Juror for Visual Arts and Crafts Panel and Presenter Panel for the Louisiana Division of the Arts; Bossier Arts Council; the Wyoming State Fair; and Red River Arts Festival. He has participated in numerous artists' workshops in iron casting, bronze casting, collaborative sculpture and performance, Chinese painting, and film and video production.

His community involvement includes membership on the boards of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council; Robinson Film Center ; and A Visual Sound & Movement, Co. He is also a member of several arts groups, and the Steering Committee of the Shreveport/Bossier City Regional Arts Congress.

Prof. Allen received his BA in Art and BS in Math from Centenary College of Louisiana. He was a Guest Student at the Academy of Fine Arts , Stuttgart , Germany and received his MFA in Sculpture and Printmaking from University of Wyoming .

	GROUP 10 FACILITATOR Bruce Allen, Shreveport Louisiana Website Bruce Allen lives in Shreveport , Louisiana and currently is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, where he has taught studio arts since 1983. In addition, he has been Art Show Consultant for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Western Art Show and Sale in Cheyenne , Wyoming every summer for the past 27 years. He was Special Advisor to the Shaanxi Institute of Chinese Art in Xian, China from 2000-2005 and Guest Artist at St. Hellen's College of Art in St. Hellen's, Great Britain . He has served as Juror for Visual Arts and Crafts Panel and Presenter Panel for the Louisiana Division of the Arts; Bossier Arts Council; the Wyoming State Fair; and Red River Arts Festival. He has participated in numerous artists' workshops in iron casting, bronze casting, collaborative sculpture and performance, Chinese painting, and film and video production. His community involvement includes membership on the boards of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council; Robinson Film Center ; and A Visual Sound & Movement, Co. He is also a member of several arts groups, and the Steering Committee of the Shreveport/Bossier City Regional Arts Congress. Prof. Allen received his BA in Art and BS in Math from Centenary College of Louisiana. He was a Guest Student at the Academy of Fine Arts , Stuttgart , Germany and received his MFA in Sculpture and Printmaking from University of Wyoming .
	John Holt, Dallas Texas Website I want A balance of idea and material within the transition between harmony and dischord. This combination can create a state of grace in the form; its surface and its interaction with the space around it.
	Luke Sides, Dallas Texas The validity of sculpture in today's art world is a major concern of mine. Today's sculptor must acknowledge the history of sculpture and at the same time appeal to the sensibilities of our post-modern world. My work attempts to make a statement about sculpture by approaching craft, process, and materials in a new way. I rely on materials for my content, and common objects for my overall form, as I deal with issues of minimalism and pop. Linguistics also has an important role—many of my sculptures are humorous plays on words. Through my work, I pay homage to, poke fun at, recognize the history of, and show my respect for sculptural tradition.
	Renee Parnel, Sterlington Louisiana Website Artist Renee Copes-Parnell is a Louisiana native of rural West Carroll Parish and a graduate of ULM with a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts. Growing up in the small town of Epps, LA had a huge impact on her art. Having had such easy access to physical materials normally found in this farming community, Renee found her source of inspiration. She works predominantly in wood, as she feel that the grain, color and texture infuses life into the piece. She uses wood, vines and other natural textures as symbols in her sculptures to reflect the human condition. It often focuses primarily on the roles that women play in society. The mother/child theme often appears in her work. There is a sense that the subject is coming into herself, overcoming a variety of obstacles. Renee uses contrasting elements frequently in her work—geometric and biomorphic forms together in one sculpture, or abstract and realistic elements in another. In these, she explores the dynamics of how opposites attract and co-exist.

	Cassandra Fink, Dallas Texas I've always strived for a balance between the organic and inorganic. Most of my work has been an abstract tribute to nature, much of it being also a statement on human nature. I love beautiful accidents and flaws worth celebrating, and I sometimes use my dreams as fodder for my art. I've always found the synergy of creative collaboration exciting; so I look forward to this blending of foreign bits and pieces of others' subconscious with my own to discover some uncharted territory.
	Hunter Stamps, Little Rock Arkansas My interest in the nature the body is formal, conceptual, and psychological. The work objectifies, manipulates and abstracts the body's material reality. The experience of the body is beautiful and disturbing at the same time. My intent is to engage the viewer with formal elements that trigger meditation on the relationship of the body's interior and exterior regions. I seduce viewers with temporal surfaces and organic forms that make reference to the materiality of the body. A piece of mine is successful if it evokes viewers to be more conscious of their own body's psychology. Images and surfaces of the body resonate in my mind and find their way into my work. I piece together abstract visualizations of the body and give them form in my sculptures, for instance, the formal qualities of a medical display, the contortion of someone's body, or the cross-section of a cadaver. I view this as a process of organic abstraction, in which I use a vocabulary of reference to the body's physicality and form without any overt or literal details of the body.

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