Exhibit Information
64 Arts National Juried Exhibition
Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
September 9 — October 22, 2011
Juror: Adrian Arleo, Studio Artist, Lolo, Montana
64 Arts is a national juried exhibition hosted by the Buchanan Center for the Arts (BCA). Housed in a historic building at 64 Public Square in downtown Monmouth, IL, BCA's 64 Arts exhibition seeks to highlight quality visual artworks from artists across the country.
Juror Adrian Arleo a studio artist living in Lolo,Montana. Ms. Arleo studied Art and Anthropology at PitzerCollege (B.A. 1979) and received her MFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. Her sculpture is exhibited nationally and internationally, and is in numerous public and private collections, including The World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Icheon, Korea, The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, The Racine museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, Microsoft, Seattle, WA, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, Gloria and Sonny Kamm, LA, CA, Ruth Kohler, Kohler, WI, and Candace Groot, Chicago, IL. In 1991 and 1992, Adrian received 2nd place and recognition awards from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, and in 1995 was awarded a Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship.
Some publications in the last few years include features in Ceramics Monthly Magazine, January 2010, Working Sculptor Feature, Western Art and Architecture, Fall/Winter 2009-2009, American Craft Magazine, Dec.'06/Jan.'07, 500 Animals in Clay, published by Lark Books, 2006, The Figure in Clay: Contemporary Sculpting Techniques by Master Artists, published by Lark Books, 2005, and Ceramics; Art and Perceptions, Magazine issue #62, 2005.
Text from 64 Arts exhibition prospectus.