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C-SC to host work of sculpture/installation artist January 14 – March 5
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

CANTON, Mo. – Culver-Stockton College will host the work of Jessica Witte, a sculpture/installation artist, in her show titled Porous Architecture, Thursday, January 14 through Friday, March 5, in the Mabee Art Gallery, located in the Herrick Foundation Center on the C-SC campus. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, January 14, at 7 p.m., with a gallery talk beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Witte earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Kearney and her master of fine arts from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill. She currently teaches art appreciation at St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, Mo., and serves as a gallery assistant at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. She has taken part in several solo, group, juried, and invitational exhibits over the past several years and also been part of several public performances, collections and speaking engagements.

“Using materials ranging from static electricity to perishable food, my installations, sculpture, and performances are allegorical battlegrounds between mindless indulgence and self-control. Sugar sprinkles denote decadence; dirt is a metaphor for mortality. Using ephemeral or discarded materials and intricate futile activity allude to my desire to fix the transitory,” said Witte in her artist’s statement.

For more information on this event contact Jennifer Bock-Nelson at 573-288-6413 or at jnelson@culver.edu.

Image: Artwork by Jessica Witte in the process of being installed in the Mabee Art Gallery on C-SC’s campus.