Sculpture Garden Site Specific Dance
Sunday June 7 & 14, 2009
3:00pm
Live Online Dancecast via Stickam.com
Watch our first site specific dancecast LIVE online! Breakbone will be premiering our first (in a series of) site-specific dancecasts! LIVE as-it-is-happening online. We are super excited to bring the arts to you in the convenience of your own home!
Performers: Mindy Meyers, Molly Grimm-Leasure, Suzy Grant, Anita Fillmore, Suzanne Dado, Nikki Stachon & Atalee Judy
Sculpture Design: Robert Witter
Film/Videography: Carl Wiedemann
Music: So Percussion, Celluloid Mata & Elliot Sharp
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About the Artists:
Robert J. Witter (Sculptor) was born and raised in Whiting, Indiana, surrounded by U.S. Steel, Standard Oil, and other mills and factories. After a short period working at the Standard Oil Refinery, he decided to go to college. He attended Indiana University, where he received a Bachelors in Fine Arts. While attending IU, he studied under renowned sculptor David Smith.
Witter then went on to receive his Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Upon leaving college, Witter began teaching in the Gary Public Schools and the City Colleges of Chicago and creating works of art. These were mostly traditional works such as nude paintings and realistic sculptures. As he continued his craft, Witter began to find his own vision. Using the welded steel and iron forms which were inspired by Smith, he added the images of his Whiting birthplace. The result was a series of sculptures which combined hardened industrial materials like rusted iron, stainless steel, jagged cement blocks, tense cables, discarded ingots, angle irons and other factory refuse with patches of smooth, sanded epoxy and fiberglass. In many ways this represented his internal conflict between the acceptable beauty of traditional art and rebellion against its confinement. During his career Witter exhibited at the New Horizons Art Show, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, The Suburban Fine Arts Center and the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts and the Whitney Museum. He was also the subject of the documentary film, Royal Roost.
