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| George Rickey, Annular Eclipse V 2000; stainless steel |
- Five large-scale Rickey sculptures will be installed on the streets of downtown South Bend
- Innovation: George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture officially opens, on the same day as downtown South Bend’s annual Art Beat celebration.
- Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art, Department of American Studies, and Department of Art, Art History, and Design present an important symposium in celebration of George Rickey—Abstraction in the Public Sphere: New Approaches. Keynote speakers include Nan Rosenthal, author of George Rickey and former senior consultant for Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and curator of 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Mary Miss, a world-acclaimed artist who bridges the disciplines of sculpture, architecture, and landscape to comment on the environmental and social history of public spheres. For more detailed information on the symposium, visit http://www.nd.edu/~sniteart/features.html.
- First Friday Walking Tour of George Rickey public sculptures located around downtown South Bend to be conducted by special V.I.P tour guide. Tour includes five garden scale sculptures and five larger works located in the downtown area. Tour will begin at the SBMA at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free.
- Family Day at South Bend Museum of Art from 2:00-4 p.m. with art making activities related to kinetic sculpture such as mobiles. Admission is free of charge to the galleries and program. Contact the South Bend Museum of Art for more information.
- An Artistic Survey of George Rickey's Career with Philip Rickey, SBMA, 7:00 p.m.
Philip Rickey, the artist's younger son, will give a gallery talk about the artistic survey of George Rickey's career. He will give a demonstration of the simple mechanics and phyisical principles that underlie all of his father's kinetic sculptures. The talk will traverse the whole exhibition from Rickey's earliest portraits and mural studies, explore his beginnings in kinetic art in the early 1950s and proceed to discuss his many creative avenues wthin the metier of Kenetic Sculpture that he pursued for over 50 years until right before his death in 2002. Event limited to SBMA New Group members. Contact the South Bend Museum of Art for more information.