A nationally advertised, juried outdoor sculpture exhibition and art and music festival
is coming to the Haynie’s Corner Arts District on June 8 and 9. The SculptEVV Art and Music Festival
is a partnership between the City of Evansville, the University of Southern Indiana, the Evansville
Bicentennial Committee and the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana.
The SculptEVV opening is free and is accompanied by the Arts Council’s juried art fair – ArtEVV – and a
series of free live music concerts. The arts fair and concerts begin Friday, June 8, at 5 p.m. and continue
Saturday, June 9, at noon. In addition, two juried exhibitions – ClayEVV and Inspired by ArchitectureEVV
– will also open in the Adams Street galleries next to the Alhambra Theater, 50 Adams Ave. Both are
organized by USI ceramic professor Alisa Holen and USI wood sculpture professor Rob Millard-Mendez.
Awards for SculptEVV, ClayEVV and Inspired by ArchitectureEVV will be announced on Saturday, June 9,
at 8 p.m.
The 12 sculptures of SculptEVV will be located in and around the Haynie’s Corner Arts District and
adjacent Sculpture Park. Marilu Knode, Executive Director of the internationally regarded Laumeier
Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri, selected the works for the exhibition as well as the prize winners.
The winners will be announced on June 9. The prizes are $1,000 for 3rd place, $5,000 for 2nd place
and $10,000 for Best-of-Show. A SculptEVV committee of visual arts professionals will choose the
$20,000 purchase award winner. All visitors to the exhibit who take a guided tour may vote for the $500
People’s Choice award.
Artists from as far away as California and Texas submitted artworks to be judged. A collaborative work
by Evansville artists Joe Smith, Jenny Smith and Alisa Holden entitled Becoming Evansville has been
accepted. Additionally, the following artists have sculptures selected for the exhibition: Amelia Toelke
(Wisconsin), Derek Chalfant (New York), John Utgaard (Kentucky), William Kolok (Kentucky); Samantha
Pasapane (New Jersey), Sue Berkey (Iowa), Tom Scicluna (Florida), Wade Kramm (Pennsylvania), Scott P
Ross (Illinois), Saul Melman (New York), Jonathan Hils (Oklahoma).
Artists will install their works starting Saturday, May 12, and continuing on Saturdays through June 2.
USI students will document the installations and post video and photo updates. To preview the works
accepted into the show visit www.SculptEVV.org.
Guided tours, led by USI Students, will start at 10:30 a.m. on June 9 and leave from the intersection of
Washington Ave. and Parrett St. near the Bokeh Lounge, 1007 Parrett Street. The first 200 middle school
and high school students who complete a tour will receive a free SculptEVV T-shirt, and the first 200
kindergarten and grade school children who complete a tour each receive colored chalks, water colors,
and modeling clay.
River City Food Coop, the River City Roller food truck and other vendors will be selling concessions at
the event. The downtown trolley will shuttle visitors between the Shriners’ Fest, SculptEVV, and other
downtown locations.
A schedule of SculptEVV and ArtEVV events is posted on the SculptEVV Facebook page and on
SculptEVV.org.
Friday, June 8, 2012
5 p.m. – Live music and ArtEVV juried arts fair begins
5:00 p.m. – The Funk
6:45 p.m. – Flawless Wells
8:00 p.m. Art EVV winners announced
8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. – Boat Monkeys
Saturday, June 9, 2012
10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Guided Tours
12:00 p.m. – Kennedy Rose
1:30 p.m. – Blind Dog Gatewood
3:00 p.m. – Zion
5:30 p.m. – Boscoe Friends
8:00 p.m. – SculptEVV, ClayEVV, ArchitechEVV winners Announced
8:30 p.m. – Fire Family
10:00 p.m. – Smoke Rings
