Renowned Pennsylvania Artist to Speak at Penn State
October 27, 2005
Renowned Pennsylvania artist Stacy Levy will deliver a slide lecture titled "You are Here: Celebrating the Commonplace in Nature" at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1, in the first-floor jury space of the Stuckeman Family Building for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Penn State.
Stacy Levy investigates water and the aquatic life that inhabits water. She seeks to clarify the movement of rain and storm water in the landscape and make visible the patterns of watersheds and water flow. She has public commissions detailing microscopic life forms in Seattle, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Her works about storm water, hydrodynamics and watersheds also appear in Philadelphia and at the North Carolina Zoo. She co-created Testing the Waters, the National Demonstration project for Acid Mine Drainage and Art in Vintondale, Pa. This project was shown in 2002 at the international art exhibition Documenta11 in Kassel, Germany. Levy also works with mold and algae, and has created micro-floral designs with the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and the Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wis.
Levy received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, and has studied at the Architectural Association in London. She is currently working on two tidal pieces, one on the Hudson River in New York with Sasaki Associates and one on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia with Winifred Lutz and the Delta Group. Visiting artist appointments include Fabric Workshop (2001), Pilchuck Glass School (2004) and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (2006). She is represented by Larry Becker Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and resides in Penn's Valley.
The lecture is sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and is free and open to the public.
For further information, contact Ken Tamminga at 863-2377 or krt1@psu.edu.