She grew up in Denmark, and her work is inspired by that country’s medieval architecture, by ancient cultures worldwide, and more recently, by the topography and spirituality of mountains, canyons and deserts.
Her sculptures are informed by studies and intuition. They range in scale from the intimate to the monumental, and use both traditional and experimental materials and techniques.
Since 1998 she has been the Director of SculptureNow, a non-profit art and educational organization which presents an annual exhibition of large-scale, outdoor sculptures in the Berkshires, and offers sculpture programs for students in the public schools.
She has curated and organized numerous public art exhibitions and is committed to promoting sculpture in the public arena and to giving young people the opportunity to create their own three-dimensional art.
Her current studio and home is in one of the Berkshire Hilltowns.
When she is not in her studio, office, or out teaching in a school, she cross-country skis, hikes, and kayaks (From Ann Jon Sculpture).
Jon’s sculpture Fourth Dimension (2001) is located northwest of the ISC Building, near the intersection of Willoughby Ave. and Hall St.
Mary Judge is an artist known for her complex and reductive works on paper and sculpture in cast concrete and painting in tempera acrylic. She was raised in rural New Jersey and attended Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, (BFA), Skowhegan School of Painting and Scultpure, Maine and Tyler School of Art (MFA) graduating from the Rome campus. (From MaryJudge.com)
Judge's sculpture Segmented Flower Form Part 1 (2008) is located north of the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center.
Wendy Klemperer earned a bachelor’s in biochemistry at Harvard before moving to NYC to pursue art full time, earning a B.F.A. in sculpture at Pratt Institute in 1983. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Nelson, NH (From WendyKlemperer.com)
Klemperer's sculpture Lions at the Gate (2001) is located to the southwest of the Library, near Hall St.
Grace Knowlton was a painter, sculptor, photographer, and mixed media artist.
Knowlton began her career as a painter, then created the three dimensional spheres for which she first became known. She called the spheres “paintings in the round” and focused on both interior and exterior space as she shaped a variety of media, including clay, concrete, sheet metal, copper, bronze and wicker.
She studied drawing, painting and photography over the years and integrated these mediums into her spheres while branching out to create sculpture, photographs, and mixed media work independent of the spheres. Knowlton’s mixed medium pieces gradually combined elements of drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and layered computer imagery. She focused on “breaking conventional boundaries to create dialogues in line and form."
Born in Buffalo in 1932, Grace Knowlton attended Milton Academy as a young woman, then Smith College and Columbia University’s Teachers College. Knowlton had numerous solo exhibits throughout the country. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Storm King Art Center (From GraceKnowltonArt.com)
Knowlton’s sculpture 6 Copper Spheres (1990–1999) is located between the Library and DeKalb Hall, near Hall St.
Harry Leigh graduated from Albright Art School and SUNY College at Buffalo, where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1953. Drafted into the United States Army that same year, he trained as a radio operator and was stationed in West Germany. While serving in Europe, he traveled extensively, visiting museums and architectural sites. Upon return, Leigh took advantage of the GI Bill to study under Peter Voulkos and received a Masters degree in 1959 from Teacher's College, Columbia University. He studied painting privately with Richard Pousette-Dart from 1956-1960. It was during this period he began experimenting with large constructed works using cardboard, plaster, and plywood; by 1965, sculpture became his principal medium.
In his first solo exhibition at the Brata Gallery in New York City in 1967, Leigh realized for the first time the integration of his work, travel and educational experiences. In 1974 and 1978, solo exhibitions of his work were mounted at OK Harris Gallery. He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program. He resides in Suffern, NY (From HarryLeigh.com)
Leigh’s sculpture Saratoga Winter (2003) is hanging on the north wall of Pantas Hall.
Donald Lipski was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised in the northern suburb of Highland Park, the son and grandson of bicycle dealers. Although his first welded sculptures as a teen won him The Scholastic Art Award in high school, he became a history major and anti-war activist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning a B.A. in American History in 1970. In Madison, Lipski discovered ceramics while working with ceramics legend Don Reitz. He then pursued an MFA in ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1973, where he studied with Richard DeVore and Michael Hall. Lipski taught at the University of Oklahoma from 1973 to 1977, when he moved to New York.
Lipski soon gained recognition with his early installation Gathering Dust, comprised of thousands of tiny sculptures pinned to the wall, first at New York's Artists Space in 1978, and months later at The Museum of Modern Art as part of their Project series. In 1978 he won the first of three National Endowment for the Arts grants, followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1993, The Rome Prize of The American Academy in Rome in 2000, and Cranbrook's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2013. His work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Art Institute of Chicago, The Menil Collection and dozens of other museums. Lipski's installation works continued in the 1990s with The Bells, at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, The Starry Night, at Capp Street Project, San Francisco, Pieces of String Too Short to Save, in the Grand Lobby of The Brooklyn Museum and The Cauldron at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.
In recent years, Lipski has focused his efforts on creating large-scale works for public spaces. Some of his most recognizable works include The Yearling, outside the Denver Public Library (originally exhibited by The Public Art Fund at Doris Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, 1997), Sirshasana, hanging in the Grand Central Market, Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and F.I.S.H. at the San Antonio River Walk, in Texas. There are twenty some others across the U.S. Lipski lives and works in New York City (From DonaldLipski.com).
Lipski’s sculpture F.R.S.B. (1996) is hanging on the north wall of Esther Lloyd Jones Hall.
Alyssa’s Lingerfelt work is derived from a focus on power structures between people, either on a personal level, or in public mainstream media. She has a deep interest in the structure of human interaction in all forms, especially in relation to boundaries, exposure, and violation—and in that same light, our basic primal needs and to what extent we’ll go to satisfy them. Lingerfelt is also interested in our individual and collective psyche, and how we insulate ourselves in both circumstances (Adaptaed from AlyssaLingerfelt.com)
Lingerfelt’s sculpture Growth Archetype (2007) is located north of Stabile Hall, near Willoughby Ave.