Sacramento Airport’s Big Build Project

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Sacramento Airport’s Big Build Project

Public Art Administrator Presents at the Blue Line Gallery

ROSEVILLE, Calif., October 6, 2009—Shelly Willis, Public Art Administrator for the City and County of Sacramento, will speak at the Blue Line Gallery on November 5^th  about the largest public art program in the County of Sacramento’s history—the Big Build project at the Sacramento International Airport.

The public is invited to the Blue Line Gallery on November 5, 7:00 p.m., where Shelly Willis will present the public art designs for Phases 1 and 2 of the Sacramento International Airport Big Build project, including artworks by Ned Kahn, Camille Utterback, Joan Moment, Donald Lipski, Christian Moeller and Lawrence Argent, among others. Willis will talk about the range of media, scale and content in the artwork designs—from a discrete interactive and multi-media piece located in the floor of the airport—to a 56 foot long suspended fiberglass sculpture. Attendees will learn about the artists, the development of their designs and how the artwork will be fabricated and installed.    

Fees collected at the presentation will help support ongoing educational programs at Roseville Arts’ Blue Line Gallery.

WHO:                    Roseville Arts Blue Line Gallery

WHAT:                  Sacramento International Airport Big Build Project - Presentation by Shelly Willis

WHEN:                 November 5, 2009, 7:00 p.m.  

WHERE:                Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville, CA 95678

WHY:                    To provide the community with information about Sacramento County’s largest public art project

COST:                    $15/$10 members

ABOUT SHELLY WILLIS

Shelly Willis came to be Public Art Administrator in Sacramento after six years managing the public art program at the University of Minnesota, where she directed the development and installation of public artworks on campuses throughout the UM system, developed the first public art minor program in the U. S. and taught courses in public art through the Departments of Urban Studies and Landscape Architecture.  During the ten years before moving to Minnesota, Willis had managed visual arts programming for the City of Fairfield, California and taught at Napa Valley and Solano Community Colleges.  Prior to that, she was program coordinator at the California Arts Council and as the Director of the Institute for Design and Experimental Art, a visual arts center in Sacramento. Among other writings, Willis’ essay on the state of public art education in the U.S. was published by Americans for the Arts in Public Art by the Book, edited by Barbara Goldstein. She co-edited the book, Public Art Practice, published by Routledge New York in the spring of 2008.  She holds undergraduate degrees in art history and business administration from California State University, Chico.  She is on the advisory board of FORECAST, Public Artworks, a St. Paul non-profit organization that publishes Public Art Review, and supports and advocates for public art nationally. 

Willis will serve as juror for Roseville Arts’ 2010 Open Show at the Blue Line Gallery.

ABOUT ROSEVILLE ARTS BLUE LINE GALLERY

2009 VOTED #1 ART GALLERY IN THE SACRAMENTO REGION—KCRA  A-LIST

Roseville Arts’ Blue Line Gallery is a non-profit community center for the arts.  Further information may be obtained on the website:  www.rosevillearts.org or by calling (916) 783-4117. To set up an interview or to request high resolution photography, please contact Veronika Nagy at roseart@surewest.net

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