Sculpture Garden Exhibition at Brecknock Hall Provides Benefits to Artists, Deadline April 15

(Riverhead, N.Y.) – The deadline is fast approaching for artists to enter the inaugural Juried Sculpture garden Exhibition at Brecknock Hall, which will accept entries postmarked up to April 15, 2010. Running from July 1 through September 11, 2010, a Gala Reception will be held on Saturday, July 17th.  New benefits for entering artists are announced, including:

• Invitation to Press Conference and Media Preview
• Local and regional press coverage
• Included  on East End Arts Council, Peconic Landing and Brecknock Hall websites and Facebook pages
• Featured  in exhibit catalogue
• Two complimentary tickets to Gala Reception
• Membership for 1 Year in East End Arts Council!
• $100 transportation stipend

Artists can download a sculpture prospectus from: www.eastendarts.org or call (631)727-0900. Please consider entering this exciting new show at a beautiful east end location. Located 100 miles from New York City on the North Fork of Long Island, Greenport is a major summer tourist destination.  Artists are strongly encouraged to apply. This is the first annual juried sculpture exhibition showcasing works by local and national sculptors that best complement and enhance the unique architecture and garden setting of Brecknock Hall, a beautifully restored 19th Century Italianate stone mansion.
 
It is an honor to announce that the jurors will be Richard Mizdal, Peter Reginato, Dr. Charles Riley II, and Marianne Weil. The Honorary Committee includes Matko Tomicic and Robert and Todd Berks.
 
About the Committee & Judges:
Robert Berks is an American sculptor, industrial designer and planner. He has created hundreds of bronze sculptures and monuments including the Mary McLeod Bethune memorial and the Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington, D.C. Another of his statues, that of the Swedish botanist and physician Carolus Linnaeus, can be found in the Heritage Garden of the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Illinois. One of Berks’ most famous works is a bust of former President John Fitzgerald Kennedy that can be found in the Grand Foyer of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
 
Matko Tomicic is Head Curator and Executive Director of the Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton, New York. He is responsible for the gallery, arboretum, sculpture gardens and educational programs. Longhouse brings together art and nature, aesthetics and spirit, with a strong conviction that the arts are central to living wholly and creatively.
 
Richard Mizdal? has been enjoying a long career in art while currently teaching as an Associate Professor in Photographic Imaging at Suffolk Community College. Richard’s work has been collected by both corporate & public concerns.
 
Peter Reginato is an American abstract sculptor. Reginato grew up near Oakland, California and attended the San Francisco Art Institute. He began making abstract sculpture in 1965 and moved to New York City in 1966 to pursue his career as a sculptor. A veteran of more than 50 solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions, he is best known for his abstract painted welded steel sculptures. He lives and works in SoHo, and teaches at The Art Students League of New York.
 
Charles A. Riley II, PhD is curator-at-large of the Nassau County Museum of Art, professor at City University of New York, and the author of twenty-eight books including Art at Lincoln Center (Wiley), The Jazz Age in France (Abrams) and Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music and Psychology (University Press of New England). He has curated exhibitions in New York, Amsterdam and Berlin and served as senior editor of Art & Auction magazine. 
 
Marianne Weil received her B.A. in sculpture from Goddard College in Vermont and M.F.A. in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts, NYC. She continued her sculpture training as an apprentice to foundry artisans and stone carvers in Pietrasanta, Italy. Prior to her appointment at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island in 2009, Professor Weil taught sculpture at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was Visiting Professor at Haverford College where she taught metal casting and sculpture. At Haverford, she received several Mellon seed grants for collaborative sculpture projects with faculty from Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges in art history, anthropology and archeology 
 
Up to three pieces per artist may be submitted for jury consideration. Entry is open to all sculptors submitting only their original creations.  Completed applications must be postmarked by April 15, 2010. Artists will be notified of the jury decision by May 15, 2010. To request a full prospectus and application, call (631)-727-0900, email psnyder@eastendarts.org, download at www.eastendarts.org or write to: East End Arts Council, 133 East Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901