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Meet Acclaimed Sculptor L. Brent Kington at the Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery
- Location: ISM Lockport Gallery, Lockport
- Date: Sunday, May 03, 2009, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
L. Brent Kington, recognized as pioneering the resurgence of blacksmithing as an American art form, will speak about his work at the Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery on Sunday, May 3, 2009, at 2:00 pm. This free event, part of the museum’s Meet the Artist series, is offered in association with the new exhibition L. Brent Kington: Mythic Metalsmith which runs through September 25, 2009. Reservations to Meet the Artist events are not required, but seating is limited. The museum will open two hours prior to the presentation. The program will last about one hour and admission is free. L. Brent Kington: Mythic Metalsmith traces the evolution of this legendary and contemporary metalsmith's art and documents his profound contribution to the resurgence of blacksmithing as an American art form today. This exhibition, featuring objects borrowed from private and museum collections, revisits Kington's early cast silver and bronze toys of the 1960s, pivotal pieces of forged iron and steel from the 1970s, and ultimately his larger, contemporary abstract sculptures. Kington studied at the University of Kansas and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He then went to Carbondale to head the Metals Program at Southern Illinois University’s Art Department where he stayed for 35 years. Kington has received many accolades during his career and is one of only thirty-nine people in the United States to date to receive the American Craft Council's "Gold Medal," the Council's highest award to individual artists. Kington retired in 1997; he continues his work from his home in Makanda, Illinois. Major support for this traveling exhibition and for the online exhibit has been provided by the Illinois Arts Council, through the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces Initiative.
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