Art is an integral part of the Dogwood Arts Festival. This year the festival adds video and performance art to its April offerings.
Most Friday and Saturday nights in April will see video art played against the brick background of the south side of the William F. Conley Building on Gay Street. Local artist Tarrer Pace will create the work called "Illumine" using words and graphic design and colors high up on the building wall. Dogwood Executive Director Lisa Duncan describes "Illumine" as the festival's "first light sculpture."
The video art will be projected from two projectors set across the Krutch Park Extension from the Holston Building. "Illumine" will show 8:30-10 p.m. April 6, April 13-14, April 20-21 and April 27.
Other performance art has been added to this year's festival. And this work is hot — literally.
Sculptor Allen Peterson will lead an iron casting demonstration and "Iron Pour" performance event April 14 at the University of Tennessee Gardens off Neyland Drive. Peterson is the juror for the festival's 2012 Art in Public Places exhibit.
Peterson, who is an instructor at Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta, will work with members of the UT Sculpture Club on the presentation. The event includes an opportunity for the public to create their own cast iron tiles, followed by an iron pouring performance by Peterson called "Colony."
The iron tile casting is 2-6 p.m. April 14; cost is $10 per tile, said UT Professor of Art Jason Brown. The performance aspect of the iron pour will begin after dusk. Then, Peterson will pour hot iron into molds of large bees. Those bees will then be held up by iron rods into the air, creating an iron-bee style of dance. There is no charge to watch the iron pouring and "Colony" creation and performance.
Hot glass will be the medium April 20 and 21 as glass artist and 2003 Bearden High School graduate Cody Nicely demonstrates glass blowing. Nicely's demonstrations will be 10 a.m.-5 p.m. both days at Liz-Beth & Co, 9211 Park West Blvd.
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