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January 30, 2008
SCULPTURE INSTRUCTOR LEE IMONEN FEATURED IN MAGAZINE
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| Sculpture instructor Lee Imonen (front) and facilities worker Steve Kayl install the woodcarving “Long Life” at Lane Community College main campus. |
EUGENE, OR - Lee Imonen, sculpture instructor at Lane Community College, is featured in an article in the January/February 2008 issue of Sculpture magazine. Titled "Nature, Technology, and Myth," the six-page spread focuses on Imonen's recent public sculptures including Sampo, 2003, at the North Capitol Mall Office Building in Salem, located a few blocks from the state capitol; and La Grande Weir, 2006, on the campus of Eastern Oregon University. The article can be found online at www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag08/jan_08/imonen/imonen.shtml
Imonen has taught at Lane since 2000. His Site Specific Sculpture class designed and built "Transformation Through Education," a six-piece metal sculpture at the west entrance of Lane main campus (see photo at 2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/artatlane/westentrance001.htm). Imonen taught the class and helped organize the project.
He also facilitated a visit by master Japanese woodcarvers who worked with a class of 23 students to carve "Long Life," a large, two-sided mahogany relief panel located west of the Center Building on Lane main campus. The students carved one side of the panel (see photo at 2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/artatlane/center005.htm).
Imonen has a master of fine arts from the University of Oregon and a bachelor of arts from Willamette University.
Lane offers transfer courses in metal casting, wood, stone, welded steel, figure studies, and clay sculpture, as well as Introduction to Sculpture and 3-D Design.
Sculpture magazine is published in Washington, D.C., by the International Sculpture Center, a member-supported, nonprofit organization serving sculptors, collectors, patrons, architects, developers, journalists, curators, historians, critics, educators, and others interested in sculpture.
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PIO: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Contacts: Rick Williams, arts division chair, (541) 463-5139
Lee Imonen, sculpture instructor, (541) 463-5412
