‘Linda Fleming: Tangible Mind’ Closing Reception and Award Ceremony

Gallery hours (special weekend hours Nov. 12 & 13)

Join us for the closing reception of Linda Fleming‘s exhibition, Tangible Mind, in the Oliver Art Center, and celebrate her career as she is presented with the International Sculpture Center’s 2016 Outstanding Educator Award. Tangible Mind is a portrait that documents the possibilities and challenges of merging art and life and chronicles the journey of the artist. Through videos, installations, individual works, models, ephemera, and storytelling,Tangible Mind speaks to the necessary interconnectedness of space, place, time, commitment, and curiosity in cultivating an art-driven lifestyle.

Fleming’s drawings and sculptures create places of shadow and light. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States and her works are in international collections in Moscow, Bagdad, Sydney, and Seoul as well as the United States. Her public installations include the International Quilt Study Center, Lincoln, Nebraska; the Berkeley Art Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Cantor Museum of Art, Stanford University, California; and Nevada Museum of Art. Fleming’s work has been reviewed in numerous periodicals including Art in America, Sculpture magazine, and the New York Times. She is a professor of fine arts in Sculpture and within the graduate studies program at CCA. Fleming was honored as CCA’s Distinguished Faculty and has been awarded grants by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Art Matters, and the Athena Foundation.

The International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Educator Award is presented to individuals who have effectively and passionately communicated the knowledge and personal experience gained through the creation of their own work to a countless number of students throughout their career. Candidates for this award are masters of sculptural processes and techniques who have devoted their careers to the education of the next generation and to the advancement of the sculpture field as a whole.