Reading, Pa.- The Freedman Gallery at Albright College will present the exhibit Inspired Terrains: Celestial Light in a Forest of Love by Chicago-based artist and sculptor Lucy Slivinski, September 8 – October 14, 2010.  An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, September 8, from 7-9 p.m. A formal presentation by the artist will take place on Tuesday, September 7 from 6 – 8 p.m. in Klein Lecture Hall.

Slivinski will be creating a site specific installation in the Freedman Gallery that will convert the traditional modernist white walls and high ceilings into a cosmological journey of light, color, fantasy and structure. She is inviting Albright students and members of the Reading community to participate in the creation of her “Forest of Love,” September 1-3 and September 6-7. Participants will work with a variety of materials such as plastic stripping, fabric, tail lights, plastics, film strips, wire, hubcaps, lawn chairs and more, and are encouraged to bring other recycled trinkets to add to the piece. Interested community members should call 610-921-7541.

“I believe everything has a force,” says Slivinski. “I take salvaged materials and repurpose the energy force that already exists. Through my own spirit and ritual practices I reform these disparate materials into my own vision of beauty thus regenerating new force and life.”
Slivinski holds a master of fine arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a bachelor of fine arts from Northern Illinois University. She creates site specific works both nationally and internationally, and her work resides in many private and public collections.

This exhibition is part of Albright’s year-long celebration of Women in the Arts. Albright’s Center for the Arts has chosen to focus this season – 90 years after women in America received full enfranchisement – on women and the arts to explore gender as both a potential limitation and source of inspiration in theatre, music, fashion and visual arts.

For more information about the artist and the exhibit, please visit www.lucyslivinski.com or www.albright.edu/freedman. 

For information about programs for children and school groups please contact Beth Krumholz at 610-921-7776 or bkrumholz@alb.edu.
The Freedman Gallery is located in the Center for the Arts at Albright College on 13th and Bern Streets, Reading.  For more information or disabled assistance, please call 610-921-7715.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Albright College enrolls more than 1,670 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.