STEPHEN LUECKING

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Lectures and Panels

"Reductivist Attitudes," MacHugh Theater, Quincy College, l972

"Presentation as Perception as Information", Washington, IN, Co-Artist, seminar, summer l973 (one week)

"Religious Orientations in Post-Formalist Art," Purdue University, l976

"Influence of Ancient Calendric Structures on my Sculpture," Kankakee Community College, IL, l98l

On my own work:

Beloit College, l982

Aquinas College, l982

University of Arizona, Tucson l983

Purdue University, 1983

"Public Sculpture in the Midwest: An Idiosyncratic Tour," Art in Architecture Series, Miami University, School of Architecture, l983

Panelist: "Small Scale Sculpture", Midwest College Art Association, IUPUI Indianapolis, l985

"Religious Orientations in Post-Formalist Art", St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, l985

"Aligning Sky and Mind", Dimensions in Sculpture, colloquium, DePaul University; October l985

"Chicago Sculptors, Chicago Criticism," School of the Art Institute, Chicago; February 1986

Panelist: "What is the Public Artist's Duty to the Public", Rockford Art Museum; June 21, 1986

Lecture on my work, Northern Illinois University; October 21, 1986

"Regional Expressions in Chicago Sculpture", Art Institute of Chicago; August 4, 1987

Presenter at "Going Public: Midwest Regional Public Art Forum", St. Paul, MN; November 4, 1988

"Upwells at the Beckman," Landscape Architecture Consortium; University of Illinois, Urbana; October 13, 1988

"On My Public Sculpture," Rockford (IL) Art Museum; January 7, 1989

More Lectures on my work:

1990, University of Illinois, Krannert Museum

"Aesthetics and Engineering", School of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana; November 6, 1990

"Building Upwells", seminar lecture, School of Civil Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana; February 6, 1991

"The Megalithic World: Brittany," colloquium: The Art, Culture and Religion of Brittany, De Paul University; January 8, 1992

Moderator: State of Sculpture - Illinois, state panel discussion, State of Illinois Gallery; February 1993

"Drawing as Communication in Public Sculpture Collaborations", School of the Art Institute of Chicago; March 23, 1993

Lecture on my work: Evanston Art Center, 1993

"Art and Evolution", Southeast Missouri State University, September 3, 1993

"Solid Dark: Shadow as Material in Contemporary Sculpture", in Drawing From Philosophy: A Symposium Around Jacques Derrida's "Memoirs of the Blind", DePaul University; February 5, 1994

"Contemporary Chicago Sculpture: An Historical Survey", University of Illinois Chicago graduate program; June 16, 1994

"Bioforms and Biokinesis: Sculpture and Artificial Life", Faculty Seminar, DePaul University; February 20, 1995 and Central Washington University; March 4, 1995

Word/Image Symposium, DePaul University, March 1995

"Stories and Structures: The Narrative and the Formal in Contemporary Public Sculpture", Rockford (IL) Art Museum, September 9, 1995

"Solar Geometry and Ancient Astronomy in My Sculpture", Adler Planetarium; April 25, 1996

"A Heavenly Gaze: Astronomy in the Visual Arts," lecture series at the Adler Planetarium, December 1996

"The Interaction of Sculpture and Place," Hope College (with Margaret Lanterman), October

Other Professional Activities Curated Seven Sculptors, DePaul University, l978

Curated exhibit of Paul Caponigro and Charles Ross, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM in conjunction with Archaeoastronomyinthe Americas conference, June 1979

Curated Stuart Court Installations, DePaul University, l98l-82

Juror and Consultant, Augustana Hospital (Chicago) Public Sculpture Competition, l983

Colloquium director, "Dimensions in Sculpture," DePaul University, October, l985

Curatorial Consultant, Illinois State Museum, for sculpture invitational, Summer, 1986

Member Chicago Council of Fine Arts City Arts Advisory Panel, FY 1987

Member Illinois Arts Council Visual Arts Advisory Panel, FY 1987, FY 1988

Juror, Purdue University Student Exhibit, April 1990

Curated exhibit of installations by John Pakosta and Susan Peterson, DePaul University Gallery, Fall 1990

Juror, Wisconsin State Fellowships, November 1990

Juror, Rockford and Vicinity exhibit, Rockford (IL) Art Museum, 1992

Co-organizer and workshop leader, Artist/Critic/Community conference, Columbia College, October 2-3, 1992

Guest artist, Contemporary Religious Art conference, St. Louis University, November 1992

Guest critic, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduate ceramics, December 1992

Member Chicago Park District Public Art Advisory Panel, 1993 to present

Visiting Artist, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO; September 1993

Juror, 57th Street Art Fair, Chicago, March 1994

Juror, Northern Illinois University, MFA Exhibit, April 1994

Artist Consultant, Tower and Civic Plaza Design, Downtown Redevelopment, Park Forest, IL, 1994

Visiting Artist, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA; March 1995

Juror, Greenwich Art Fair, Rockford, IL, April 1995

Director, Vincent De Paul Sculpture Competition, DePaul University, 1995

Visiting Artist, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, April 1995

Reviewer/Consultant to Sculpture Program at Northern Illinois University, May 1995

Juror, Quad Cites Arts Council exhibition schedule, 1998
 

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