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October 3, 2005
UNM student receives International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement Award
Margaret Carlson has been awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award for 2005. Carlson recently received a bachelor of fine arts degree in sculpture at the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts.
Carlson's “Husht Reverberations” is one of 19 winning sculptures selected from 340 submissions from 130 colleges and art schools in four countries. She was also selected for ISC's 2005 Sculpture Residency in Switzerland, which is awarded to one student each year. She will spend a month in Switzerland working with world-renowned sculpture Heinz Aeschlimann.
Carlson's work is featured in the October issue of Sculpture magazine and in the Grounds for Sculpture's Fall/Winter Exhibition Oct. 8 – Jan. 8 in Hamilton, N.J.
“Husht Reverberations” is made from over 10,000 yards of fabric. “It is all used, which gives each piece of material its own story,” Carlson said. “This work was a celebration of the phenomenal experiences that are embedded into everyday life.”
The ISC was founded in 1960 to expand public understanding and appreciation of sculpture internationally, demonstrate the power of sculpture to educate, effect social change, engage artists and arts professionals in a dialogue to advance the art form, and promote a supportive environment for sculpture and sculptors. The ISC established the annual Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in 1994 to recognize young sculptors and to encourage their continued commitment to the field.
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