Art department to celebrate first International Sculpture Day

A celebration of art and design stemming from events dating back to the early 1900s will soon take place at the University of South Dakota.

USD art department students will participate in the International Sculpture Center’s (ISC) collaboration with Grounds For Sculpture to celebrate the first “International Sculpture Day” April 24  from 6 to 8 p.m.

Various campuses around the country, including USD, will organize satellite TASK Parties connected via Skype to complement the celebration at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, N.J.

In 2002,  Brooklyn-based Oliver Herring invented the art event “TASK.” The organized events, such as the one that will be hosted by USD’s art department and the university art galleries, is a creative collaboration that is accessible and educational.
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The process encourages innovation, creativity, communication and play as a constructive and improvisational essential activity.

The celebrations are inspired by events that took place at the Bahaus School of Art and Design. The school operated from 1919 to 1933 in Weimar, Germany and was founded by architect Walter Groipus.

The school focused on innovation, creativity and combining the ideas of art and design. The school was craft-based and combined the ideas of sculpture painting and architecture. The school also fostered the importance of experimentation with modern materials and ideas, along with the essential value of the “play instinct” in creativity.

Participatory events were encouraged, and students were able to cross disciplines, including music, theater and spectator participation. Theses theme parties were a place for students and community to gather, participate and engage in creative activity.

At TASK parties, everyday materials including paper, markers,  a box of “tasks” and the drawing room are provided for this celebratory creative event. Students, faculty members, children, community members and families are encouraged to visit, create and be a part of it all.

A task begins when a participant removes a slip of paper with the instructions for their task out of the box. The ideas for the tasks are generated prior to the event by students, faculty and any individual interested in participating.

Examples of a task could be a challenge to invite a person to introduce themself to someone new in the room or to make five paper hats using materials that are available at the event. Other tasks may ask the participant to find three people and create a drawing or a work of poetry together.

Join us for the TASK event in room 172 of the Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts and also from 6 to 8 p.m. April 24 in the John A. Day Gallery for the Bachelor of Fine Arts graduating student show “Duality of Dealing” for a closing reception.