| For more information about this article or gallery, please call the gallery phone number listed in the last line of the article, "For more info..." |
March Issue 2010
Patrick Dougherty
Creates Installation for Rock Hill, SC, Community Performance
Center
Thanks to collaborative community-wide efforts, Rock Hill, SC, soon will become home to one of renowned NC artist Patrick Dougherty's unique large-scale wood installations.
Beginning Mar. 8, 2010, Dougherty will spend three weeks building an installation at Rock Hill's new Community Performance Center, located at 249 E. Main St., weaving donated tree saplings into a large, intricate sculptural installation. Throughout the building process, the accessible artist will work with volunteers - including Winthrop University fine arts students - and interact with visitors who stop to watch his progress.
Funded by ACE Projects at Winthrop, a privately funded outreach program, the Patrick Dougherty Installation Project is a partnership among the Arts Council of York County, the Rock Hill Old Town Association, Rock Hill's Gallery Up, Winthrop and ACE Projects.
The interactive installation project should provide the Rock Hill community with a unique opportunity to "realize the impact of temporary public art on economic development and quality of life in our college town," said Tom Stanley, chair of Winthrop's Department of Fine Arts. "Patrick Dougherty is especially gifted in helping to demystify art - helping us to see that it is a vital job that needs to be done."
As part of the installation project, Dougherty will give a public presentation about his work on Mar. 11, 2010, at 7:30pm in the City of Rock Hill Council Chamber, located at 155 Johnson Street.
Dougherty, a native of North Carolina, first began experimenting with woven tree saplings in 1980. Since then, he has constructed more than 150 monumental tree-sapling sculptures throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He also has served as artist-in-residence at universities and museums across America.
A resident of Chapel Hill, NC, Dougherty earned his BA at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an MA at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and completed post-graduate work at UNC-Chapel Hill.
For more information
about Dougherty's work, visit (www.stickwork.net). For more info
about the project call the Arts Council of York County at 803/328-2787
or visit (www.yorkcountyarts.org).
Carolina Arts is published monthly by Shoestring Publishing Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc. Copyright© 2010 by PSMG, Inc., which published Charleston Arts from July 1987 - Dec. 1994 and South Carolina Arts from Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1996. It also publishes Carolina Arts Online, Copyright© 2010 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina Arts is available throughout North & South Carolina.