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Featured Image: No More Milk & Cookies by Chakaia Booker | Photographer: Jerry L. Thompson, Courtesy of Storm King Art Center
A panel discussion celebrating artist Chakaia Booker and her sculpture that will be installed this week on the KSAT, No More Milk and Cookies, will take place on Sunday, Sept. 15, at 4 p.m. in Landis Cinema at Buck Hall, 219 N. 3rd St., Easton. A reception will follow by the sculpture on the arts trail’s Movie Hill near the KSAT dog park. The rain site will be Buck Hall.
Photographer: Alexandre Ayer – Diversity Pictures
The panelists, who will join Booker in discussing the sculpture and her influence in the art world:
- Artist Berrisford Boothe, professor of art and architecture at Lehigh University and founding director/curator of the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection
- Artist Adama Delphine Fawundu, assistant professor of visual arts and director of graduate studies at Columbia University School of the Arts
- Artist Willie Cole
- Robert S. Mattison, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History Emeritus at Lafayette College
The sculpture will remain for at least two years. Made of reclaimed rubber tires and wood, No More Milk and Cookies (2003) is 14.5′ high x 28′ long x 24′ deep. It was included in an exhibition of Booker’s sculpture at Storm King Arts Center in Mountainville, N.Y., in 2004, and subsequently at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Mass., in 2010.
The arts trail also will hold workshops with Booker this fall, including a public one on Saturday, Oct. 12, from noon–2 p.m., at the base of Movie Hill near the KSAT dog park. The rain location is Ahart Family Arts Plaza between Buck Hall and the Williams Visual Arts Building at the foot of College Hill. Collected found objects and materials will be hammered, nailed, screwed, tied, and glued together into new creations. Guiding participants will be students in Lafayette’s Creative and Performing Arts Scholars program along with Phillipsburg and Easton high school students in the Lafayette College art department’s Community-Based Teaching Program, which is led by Jim Toia, KSAT’s executive director and curator.
Information provided to TVL by:
Dave Block
