Tamsie Ringler, Assistant Professor (Sculpture), awarded Forecast Public Art's McKnight Project Grant for Mid-Career Artists
Overburden, 2013, Cast Iron, Steel, Projection
Sculptor Tamsie Ringler’s work fuses
public spectacle with the production of contemplative spaces and objects. Using
iron casting, video, and landscape, her installations and sculptures integrate
process, space and cultural communities. She focuses on the populist and
environmental traditions of public art where the viewer becomes element, participant
and witness. Recent projects explore our relationship with land and the impact
of our hunger for natural resources. Ringler
is a term assistant professor in Sculpture at the University of Minnesota and serves on the Board of Directors of
Franconia Sculpture Park. Recent awards include a Minnesota State Arts Board
Artist Initiative Grant and a Forecast/ McKnight Project Development Grant. Ringler
has participated extensively in international cultural exchanges and
exhibitions and her work is represented in sculpture parks and public
collections. in 2014 she co-directed the 7th International Conference on
Contemporary Cast Iron Art at the Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum in Latvia: Coal.Essence: Iron Forming Art, Ritual and
Landscape.
For more information about Tamsie Ringler, please visit her website.
