{"id":8769,"date":"2017-05-01T08:53:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:59:28","slug":"marciawoodexhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/marciawoodexhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"May Marcia Wood Exhibition Includes Silent Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8770\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8770 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/WoodArticle.jpg\" alt=\"May Marcia Wood Exhibition\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/WoodArticle.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/WoodArticle-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/WoodArticle-300x451.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/WoodArticle-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcia Wood inspects &#8220;Prospect&#8221; prior to finishing stages. The sculpture is part of K&#8217;s campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The late <strong>Marcia Wood \u201955<\/strong> served Kalamazoo College as a professor in the art department from 1965 to 1998. She also was a renowned and award winning artist whose works appear throughout the country. An exhibition of her work, Marcia Wood: Monuments and Miniatures, will occur in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalamazooarts.org\/page\/board_staff\">Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo<\/a> EPIC Center Gallery from May 5 through May 26, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wood\u2019s friend and former colleague, <strong>David Curl<\/strong>, who served as a visiting professor of Art at Kalamazoo College from 1989-2000, the exhibition will feature legacy work\u2014various examples of Wood&#8217;s smaller sculptures, maquettes, and early paintings. Many of the items have been donated by the Wood family for sale by silent auction. Proceeds of the auction benefit the Marcia J. Wood Scholarship Fund at Kalamazoo College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcia touched and inspired many lives through her original work and 40-year career,\u201d said Curl. \u201cShe conceived and executed sixteen large-scale public art sculptures that were installed in four states, as well as literally countless paintings and smaller sculptures. Her style was conceptually and symbolically representational, but reflected the abstract expressionism of the times.\u201d One of her large-scale installations, <em>Prospect<\/em>, was commissioned to celebrate the College\u2019s 1983 sesquicentennial and is located in front of the Light Fine Arts Building. In 1980 Wood received the Florence J. Lucasse Fellowship for Excellence in Scholarship, the highest award bestowed by the College\u2019s faculty honoring contributions in creative work. In 1997 Wood was honored with the Governor\u2019s Art Award from the Concerned Citizens for the Arts in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Prices of the artwork donated for auction, according to Curl, are not expected to approach \u201cgallery\u201d levels; only to reflect the maximum that each buyer is willing to commit to the scholarship fund. Online bidding will end as of the close of the EPIC Center exhibit on May 26, 2017, but bids entered by the exhibit opening on May 5, 2017 will be posted during the exhibition to encourage further bids from gallery visitors. \u201cThis silent auction of some of her lesser known work,\u201d Curl says, \u201cis a rare opportunity to continue Marcia\u2019s legacy through contributing to her scholarship fund, and a last chance to acquire for your own collection a unique artifact of art history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The website is sponsored and supported solely by Curl, as agent for the Wood family, and is not connected directly to the College, to the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, or to any other entity. All proceeds from online and gallery sales will go entirely to the Marcia J. Wood Scholarship Fund at Kalamazoo College. By bidding, you agree that your contact information will be used only for communication about your bid, to notify you if you submit a winning bid by close of this online auction at midnight Friday, May 26, 2017, and to arrange for payment and for pick-up or shipment of your purchase(s).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful to all who browse these few remaining items from her legacy work,\u201d says Curl, \u201cand to all those who purchase one in her honor, and attend her exhibitions!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Marcia Wood \u201955 served Kalamazoo College as a professor in the art department from 1965 to 1998. She also was a renowned and award winning artist whose works appear throughout the country. 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The sculpture is part of K&#8217;s campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The late <strong>Marcia Wood \u201955<\/strong> served Kalamazoo College as a professor in the art department from 1965 to 1998. She also was a renowned and award winning artist whose works appear throughout the country. An exhibition of her work, Marcia Wood: Monuments and Miniatures, will occur in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalamazooarts.org\/page\/board_staff\">Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo<\/a> EPIC Center Gallery from May 5 through May 26, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wood\u2019s friend and former colleague, <strong>David Curl<\/strong>, who served as a visiting professor of Art at Kalamazoo College from 1989-2000, the exhibition will feature legacy work\u2014various examples of Wood&#8217;s smaller sculptures, maquettes, and early paintings. Many of the items have been donated by the Wood family for sale by silent auction. Proceeds of the auction benefit the Marcia J. Wood Scholarship Fund at Kalamazoo College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcia touched and inspired many lives through her original work and 40-year career,\u201d said Curl. \u201cShe conceived and executed sixteen large-scale public art sculptures that were installed in four states, as well as literally countless paintings and smaller sculptures. Her style was conceptually and symbolically representational, but reflected the abstract expressionism of the times.\u201d One of her large-scale installations, <em>Prospect<\/em>, was commissioned to celebrate the College\u2019s 1983 sesquicentennial and is located in front of the Light Fine Arts Building. In 1980 Wood received the Florence J. Lucasse Fellowship for Excellence in Scholarship, the highest award bestowed by the College\u2019s faculty honoring contributions in creative work. In 1997 Wood was honored with the Governor\u2019s Art Award from the Concerned Citizens for the Arts in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Prices of the artwork donated for auction, according to Curl, are not expected to approach \u201cgallery\u201d levels; only to reflect the maximum that each buyer is willing to commit to the scholarship fund. Online bidding will end as of the close of the EPIC Center exhibit on May 26, 2017, but bids entered by the exhibit opening on May 5, 2017 will be posted during the exhibition to encourage further bids from gallery visitors. \u201cThis silent auction of some of her lesser known work,\u201d Curl says, \u201cis a rare opportunity to continue Marcia\u2019s legacy through contributing to her scholarship fund, and a last chance to acquire for your own collection a unique artifact of art history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The website is sponsored and supported solely by Curl, as agent for the Wood family, and is not connected directly to the College, to the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, or to any other entity. All proceeds from online and gallery sales will go entirely to the Marcia J. Wood Scholarship Fund at Kalamazoo College. By bidding, you agree that your contact information will be used only for communication about your bid, to notify you if you submit a winning bid by close of this online auction at midnight Friday, May 26, 2017, and to arrange for payment and for pick-up or shipment of your purchase(s).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful to all who browse these few remaining items from her legacy work,\u201d says Curl, \u201cand to all those who purchase one in her honor, and attend her exhibitions!\u201d<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8929,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}