F R E S H :
perspectives from
the SX Network
JAN 24- FEB 8, 2025
CLOSING RECEPTION
3-5pm SATURDAY, FEB 8
The Sculpture Center
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8
12:00- Doors Open at The Sculpture Center, 12210 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH
2:00 - Arrival, Gallery Exploration & Refreshments
2:30 - Gemma Sharp, Art History Professor, Cleveland Institute of Art
3:30 - Break & Refreshments
3:45 - Stephen Yusko, Artist, Cleveland, OH
4:15 - Gallery Exploration
4:30 - Deinstallation
5:00 - Departure
SX 2025
For its fifteenth anniversary, SX returns to its roots: leveraging scarce resources to catalyze collaborations and dialogue among educational and arts institutions within driving distance of Cleveland, OH and Erie, PA. The 2025 SX exhibition, Fresh: Perspectives from the SculptureX Network, will showcase the work of students and faculty from seven universities demonstrating that art making is part of a world conversation.
2025 PARTICIPANTS
The Sculpture Center in Cleveland serves as the SX fiscal agent and is the host of the 2025 SX Exhibition (FRESH: perspectives from the SX network). FRESH will feature work from students and faculty from six universities: Cleveland Institute of Art (Sarah Paul), Cleveland State U (Irina Koukhanova), PennWest U (Kaersten Colvin-Woodruff, David W. Martin), Seton Hill U (Pati Beachley), Slippery Rock U (Emily Elliott) and West Virginia U (Dylan Collins). FRESH: perspectives from the SX network will highlight the work of sculpture departments from seven universities in the Ohio region. With the support of The Sculpture Center (TSC) Director (Grace Chin), TSC galleries will feature new student and faculty work from seven universities that reveal a fresh perspective on the future of contemporary art.
2025 SPONSORS
The 2025 SX sponsors are the universities (Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland State, PennWest, Seton Hill, Slippery Rock, West Virginia) and CIVITAS and The Sculpture Center. The Sculpture Center (TSC) is of the few 501(c)(3) cultural institutions providing critical resources to sculptors. THS acts upon the belief that artists of all voices and backgrounds, at all stages of their careers, are vital participants for envisioning a better world and for contributing to livable communities. TSC enriches the cultural landscape and works to become a regionally and nationally recognized cultural space for sculptors.
WHAT IS SX?
SculptureX, or SX, stands for “sculpture exchange.” SX is a teaching and networking platform designed to leverage scarce resources to catalyze collaborations and dialogue among educational and art institutions. SculptureX fosters an “exchange” of faculty expertise in design, art education, art history, criticism and curatorial practice between institutions through speakers, workshops, presentations, panels and exhibitions. Since 2010, SX has organized dozens of free (or low-cost) with institutions in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, western New York and western Pennsylvania and Ontario.
SX HISTORY
SX was co-founded in 2010 by Lisa Austin (CIVITAS & Edinboro U), by Ann Albano (The Sculpture Center), Charles Tucker (then at Cleveland Institute of Art and now at Bowling Green U), Saul Ostrow (then at Cleveland Institute of Art, now in NY, NY), John Vanco (Erie Art Museum), Dietrich Wegner (Edinboro U, now PennWest U).
SculptureX (SX - sculpture exchange) is a teaching and networking platform designed to catalyze collaborations and dialogue while leverage scarce resources among educational and art institutions located within a few hours drive of Cleveland and Erie. Since the SX founding in 2010 (by faculty and staff from Edinboro University, Cleveland’s The Sculpture Center, the Erie Art Museum and the Cleveland Institute of the Arts) a dozen SX symposia and 30+ exhibitions have been held benefiting hundreds of students, faculty and independent artists.
The 2024 SX Symposium will be held at Bruce Gallery PennWest University hosting faculty and students from: Chatham University - Cleveland Art Institute - Cleveland State University - Indiana University of PA - Seton Hill University - Slippery Rock University - with Cleveland’s The Sculpture Center serving as the SX fiscal agent.
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2022 SculptureX Symposium: SXZ
The 2022 symposium - SXZ - was a series of hybrid evening events organized to create opportunities for Gen Z students and emerging artists on October 12, 13, and 14th 2022 both on line and in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. SXZ began with an all-virtual keynote address by Sharon Louden titled, The Artist as Culture Producer. Louden is an artist, educator, advocate for artists, editor of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books, and the Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Visual Arts at the Chautauqua Institution. Louden graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Drawing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Weisman Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Louden’s presentation was followed by the SX Emerging Artist talks organized by Melanie Landsittel, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY: Finn Dugan, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA @duganfinn Katie Lenz, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA @katielentzart Rachel Maly, PennWest Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA and Isabel Agatha Zeng, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH / @zzeng@bgsu.edu On Thursday, October 13, a 6:30 zoom conversation was held with undergraduate at the CHATHAM UNIVERSITY Art & Design Center, Mezzanine Level (3rd Floor) Woodland Road, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA 15323 who contributed work to the WHERE, WEAR, WARE show. On Friday, October 14, at the Reclaimed: process, story, material and idea show at The Sculpture Center, 1834 E 123rd Street, Cleveland, OH 4410, artists talks were streamed on zoom. This show was curated by Melanie Landsittel, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY: Arcadia Mori Bradley Weyandt David Ross Ella Medicus Emily Irvin Marcè Nixon-Washington Lu and Heather Molecke. The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, OH, directed by Grace Chin, serves as the nexus and fiscal agent for the 2022 SculptureX symposium with partners: Chatham University Pittsburgh, PA -James Louks, Professor & Gallery Director / CIVITAS social sculpture / Indiana University of PA Indiana, PA -Sean Derry and Sharon Massey, Professors & collaborators of Sculpture Support System / PennWest University Edinboro, PA -Lisa Austin, Professor, Bruce Gallery Director / Seton Hill University Greensburgh, PA - Pati Beachley, Professor & Art Department Chair / Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock, PA -Sean Macmillan, Professor / University of Kentucky Lexington, KY -Melanie Landsittel, Professor / University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA - Delanie Jenkins, Professor.
SculptureX was founded as a teaching and networking platform to catalyze collaborations among educational and art institutions in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, western New York, West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana and Ontario. SculptureX / SX (or, sculpture exchange) was initiated by CIVITAS in 2009 collaboration with faculty and staff from Edinboro University of PA (now PennWest University), the Erie Art Museum, the Cleveland Institute of Art and The Sculpture Center.