SCAD-Atlanta presents lecture by artist Sandy Skoglund 

ATLANTA (Mar. 27) — Sandy Skoglund will give a lecture at the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St., April 26, 7 p.m. Skoglund, a member of the college's Distinguished Faculty Program, will lecture about her artwork and her inspirations. Skoglund is slated to teach at SCAD-Atlanta during the spring quarter. The lecture is free and open to the public. 

SCAD-Atlanta Distinguished Faculty Program

   The Distinguished Faculty Program is an exciting and challenging opportunity for students at SCAD-Atlanta that expands the role of visiting artist to visiting professor. Beginning Spring 2006, renowned artists will join our faculty for one quarter to teach specialized courses and offer invaluable student critiques. The vision of the program is both unique and profound: celebrated artists who have succeeded in transforming their art into successful careers will teach students on a weekly basis. These artists exemplify the mission of SCAD education. These advanced, five-hour credit courses are open to all graduate students and available to seniors with faculty adviser or chair approval. 

About Sandy Skoglund

   Skoglund is known for creating sculptural installations and photographs that are often made of food or other ordinary materials drawn from everyday life. Her work offers a complex dynamic that is parody and convention, experiment and treatise. Many of her famous pieces utilize life-size animals replicated and placed in unusual settings such as "Radioactive Cats," which features green cats romping in gray kitchens, or "Revenge of the Goldfish," which features huge goldfish swimming through the air in cobalt bedrooms. Other pieces incorporate food, such as "Spirituality in the Flesh," which used ground beef as a medium. 

   In 2001, Skoglund held an exhibition at SCAD featuring "Shimmering Madness," a large-scale installation made of thousands of feather butterflies and jellybeans. In 2003, she was commissioned by SCAD to create a large-scale installation titled "Streaming" at SCAD's Pfriem Gallery in Lacoste, France. "Streaming" involved hundreds of ribbons hanging from the ceiling. As the materials fell to the ground, they accumulated and swelled like a river of texture and color. Furniture functioned as islands for the streaming ribbons to flow around and students were used as participants swimming in the river of color. 

   Skoglund earned a master's degree from the University of Iowa. She has taught at The Ohio State University, Sarah Lawrence College, the School of Visual Arts, the Harford Art School and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her work has been shown at venues nationally and internationally, including Galerie Rabouan-Moussion, Paris; Guy Bartschi Gallery, Geneva; Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy; and Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta. Her photographs and installations are in many prominent public and private collections, including those at the Brooklyn Museum, the Center for Creative Photography, Centre Pompidou, the Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.