How 2 Stay Alive in the Woods

When: Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: LSU School of Art, Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Exhibition Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St, Baton Rouge

Cost: Not available

Age limit: All ages

Categories: Art (ongoing)

Description: How 2 Stay Alive in the Woods an installation by Sibylle Peretti and Stephen Paul Day

January 16-February 11, 2007
Artist’s Reception: Saturday, January 20, 2007 6-8pm

Sibylle Peretti and Stephen Day are successful solo artists who pursue an on-going pas de deux. Together they are a formidable team with complementary skills and sensibilities and a shared drive for perfection. They met as teachers in Bavaria at the technical glass school where German born Peretti trained as a glass designer. Peretti went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Köln and earned an MFA there.
Born in Iowa, Day grew up in Baton Rouge; however, he says, “my parents were well-traveled.” He attended high school in Vienna and first studied glass in Paris where he attended the Ecole Nationale Superiere des Beaux Arts for four years after earning his Bachelor’s degree. His earliest work with glass there was with stained glass. He earned his masters in sculpture and glass at Louisiana State University where he also studied video, which he still uses in his installations. He went on to teach at L.S.U. and built a hot shop there and developed the sculptural glass program. Both Day and Peretti have traveled all over the world making glass and teaching.
Alone and together (themes which pervade the individual oeuvre of both artists), Day and Peretti have a truly complementary understanding of art-making. Day: “It’s all entertainment but I take it seriously.” Peretti: “It’s all serious, but I’m entertained.”
(excerpt from Robin Rice)
Resumes available upon request.

Event posted Jan. 31, 2007
Last updated Jan. 31, 2007